ATI VU RUE YR Le be ta Se emee ee et eeeeee complex of islands could be used for continuous occupancy and agricultural development sufficient to support the returning population. Recommended clean-up of these islands require: 1. The removal of all test-related debris with disposal at sea of all radioactive debris. 2. Stripping of the vegetation to permit planting of coconuts, pandanus, breadfruit, etc. 3. Determination of external background radiation levels at each step of the clearing and stripping operations. 4. Obtaining additional samples of available food items for lLaboratory analysis for comparison with previously collected data. Although permanent occupancy was to be limited to the islands of Bikini and Eneu, the Ad Hoc Committee further concluded that "radioactive scrap should be removed from the islands adjacent to former shot sites." This removal of radioactive debris would make the scrap unavailable for collection by the natives during food collection trips to these islands. The final objectives of the clean-up program, therefore, included the elimination of all physical hazards and the disposal of all radio- active scrap from each island of the atoll in addition to the specific measures cited for Bikini and Eneu. 2,2 CRITERIA Rather than establish firm, restrictive criteria for the removal of radioactive artifacts, or the elimination of high background areas from the islands of the atoll, each situation was viewed in terms of the potential exposure versus benefit, All debris or artifacts having little or no useful value were removed. Serap metal or concrete with contact gamma readings greater than 100 micro-Roentgen pir nour (uR/nr) was treated as radioactive waste ond buried at sea. Three specific locations were selected for this burial. In some cases, §cr &3 with contact gamma readings less than 100 uR/ne vas buried on dand veret moc with nonradioactive cepris. This was only done on istands where orice: .anibicing background teveis in So quae