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Mr. Peter T. Coleman
Deputy High Commissioner
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United States Department of Interior
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Coleman:
I am most pleased to have your letter of June 11, 1969, reporting
the activities connected with the rehabilitation of Bikini Atoll.
Everyone agrees that this is a particularly important project and
your obvious personal interest in the resettlement will go far
in assuring that it will be successful.
I understand that parts of the Atoll other than Bikini and Enyu
are being decontaminated and resurveyed and that the "Oboe-Peter-Tare"
complex is one of those. Based on current data, the external
exposure to the Bikinians during cultivation and harvest of the
coconuts on the "Oboe-Peter-Tare"™ complex might add a significant
fraction to their total annual dose.
On the other hand, use of the
coconuts from the complex should contribute only a small amount of
internal activity,
in agreement with your reasoning, it would seem to be in order to
plant a grove on the complex at this time, especially since the
equipment is at Bikini, but the final judgment of radiologic safety
obviously has to be made on the basis of actual radiologic measure~
ments of the terrain and food stuffs, If the current radiological
data being obtained by the Joint Task Group 8.8, Bikini, on the land,
food sources and lens water turn out to be comparable with those on
Enyu and Bikini, it would certainly be in order to review the judg-
ments of the 1967 Ad Hoc Evaluation Committee,
I can promise you an expeditious response upon receipt of the relevant data,
Please accept my sincerest thanks for calling this matter to
our attention.
cc:
Chairman (2)
Commissioner Ramey
Commissioner Johnson
Commissioner Costagliola
Commissioner Thompson
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(Signed) Biers 1, Secherg
Chairman
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