. _ UNITED STATES ” ATOMIC ENERGY COMMISSION WASHINGTON, D.C. 75792 20545 APR £1858 2°" US DOE ARCHIVES nee U.S. ATOMIC ENERGY COMMISSION. Collection. SECRETARIAT __ MEMORANDUM FOR CHAIRMAN SEABORG COMMISSIONER RAMEY COMMISSIONER TAPE Box COMMISSIONER JOHNSON TEROUGH GENERAL MANAGER SUBJECT: CCilo [Folder MHES > uz —Densid C. Kull for ACTIVITIES CONCERNING THE RETURN OF THE NATIVES TO THE BIKINI ATOLL The letter of December 7, 1966, from the Secretary of the Interior, to the Chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission (copy attached), will reveal that Secretary Udall requested that the Atomic Energy Commission taxe steps to determine "whether Bikini and its lagoon are now safe for continued hebitation and whether the Bikinians could have hazard-free use of the resources of the atoll and its adjacent water areas." In ompliance with the request to the Divisions of Biology and Medicine anc Cperational Safety, as referred to in your letter of December 20, 1966, to Secretary Udall veyed in April-May 1967. (copy attached), the Bikini Atoll was resur- Zctached is a report entitled "Meeting to Discuss Return of Natives to the Bikini Atoll. Perusal of this report will reveal that interested gvoups in the Atomic Energy Commission and in the Department of the Interior have taken steps which will lead to the development of a recsmendetion regarding the feasibility, from the standpoint of the radi- arion sicuation, of the return of the natives to the Bikini Atoll. 1.@ Divisicn of Biology and Medicine, the Division of Operational Safety, anc répresextacives from the Department of the Interioz, are now orga- nizing a meeting to be held May 13-15 or 16, 1968, in which the members c= the team which resurveyed the Bikini Atoll, together with a group of expert consultants, will review the findings and implications of the reciation measurements and analytical cata which grew out of the survey. CONFIRMEDTO BE UNCLASSIFIED BY AUTHORITY OF DOE/Oc c REVIEWED i 7 5 A) e+, Tnis group will be asked to prepare a recommendation to the Commission.