dumping. The Enewe wk materia: is w2hl withii. che quidelinsas proposed, and ocean dumping weuld result in no Significant radiological hazard to man or marine organisms. (I snould point out that I was chairman and United States representative on a recent I.A.E.A. panel (June 13-17, 1977) to redefine the radiological basis of the London Convention for the United Nations Intergovernmental Maritime Consultative Organization). The discussion then moved to the rationale for the cl2anup. The participants could see the necessity to remove contaminated concrete, metal, ground disposal sites from the Islangs and place this in some form of controlled state on Runit. to However, they were not convinced that the rationale for removing soil From the islands was based on accevtable assumptions, resuspension problem, tnose assumptions. 1.@e., a nor had any attempt been made to validate The need for a resuspension research program _ rather than an jnadequate monitoring program was called for. Additionally, the guidelines proposed for levels of plutonium in soil appeared to conflict with recently proposed federal guidelines and the basis clear. for a double standard was not made While it was accepted that the decisions to conduct this operation were complicated and had been made over the last two years, the consensus was that the soil removal aspect and the attendant disposal should be immediately re-evaluated. A number of participants were sufficiently concerned that they prepared a draft memorandum, which Bill Burr agreed to bring to the attention of the AES BIKINT (copy attached) . AND ENEU A considerable time was spent discussing the Bikini Isiand problem. While it.ais obvious that there have been, always will be considerable political, pressures to resettle the islanders, are, and economic and social I was not convinced that _ sufficient technical and scientific discussions had neen ‘conducted to come to a decision acceptable to or for the islanders. The indications are that the present inhabitants a...)