In FY 1975 DoD requested a military construction appropriation to accomplish the cleanup using civilian contractors.
Congress did not authorize this appropriation, and instead
Girected that project planning be revised to make use of
of the military services and would be required for normal
This direction from Congress required that DoD not
only manage the cleanup operation, but that DoD personnel
actually perform the cleanup.
The Army, Navy, and Air Force.
were accordingly tasked to provide personnel and equipment
to perform the various jobs required.
Nuclear Agency,
was
The Director, Defense
appointed as the DoD Project Manager
for the cleanup itself.
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in the accomplishment of this project through the use of
military services' construction and support forces, their
subsistence, equipment, material, supplies, and transportation which have been funded to support ongoing operations
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In the Fy 1977 military construction appropriation,
Congress provided $20 million to partially fund the cleanup,
stipulating that "all reasonable economies should be realized
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military personnel and equipment.
Since your interest is primarily in the radiological
aspects of the cleanup, I might describe the Department
of Energy's role in more detail.
The DoE is responsible
for providing technical support to the DoD Project Manager,
for characterizing and defining the radiological environment,
for establishing the criteria for cleanup levels, and for
certifying the radiological condition of the Atoll after
the cleanup effort.
The cleanup portion of this program, managed by Dop,
consists of three separate efforts:
removal and lLagoonremoval
The radiological contaminants are described in detail
in AEC Report NVO-140, October 1973, attached. The distribution of the radiological contaminants is shown to be limited
roughly to the northern half of the islands of the Atoll.
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dumping of uncontaminated debris and structures;
and crater-disposal of radiologically contaminated debris
and structures; and excision and crater-disposal of some
of the radiologically contaminated soil that remains on
the islands.