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17 May 72
CONTRACTOR
RADIATION
T.T. officials, escorting a group of Enewetakese council members and their
lawyers, and Roger Ray, NV assistant manager for operations, arrive on Enewetak.
The AEC survey team advises Ray on the possibility of high alpha contamination on
Runit Island, and Ray briefs DNA PACE personnel and workers just arriving from
Scripps Institute of Oceanography (SIO) on preliminary survey findings. The Scripps
people leave, and the PACE people remain to continue preparations for high explosive
cratering experiments.”
20 May 72
ADMINISTRATION
RADIATION
RELOCATION
At the close-out meeting for the Marshallese visit to Enewetak the T.T.officials
and Enewetakese leaders want an early return of Enewetakese to Enewetak. The
Enewetakese wish to draw up specifications for rehabilitation and express
dissatisfaction with the continued use of their land. Ray agrees to convey to
appropriate authorities the need for central coordination of all future actions relating
to Enewetak and the necessity of keeping the Marshallese and T.T. administration
advised of U.S. actions and intentions. NV manager Robert E. Miller requests “the
establishment at the Washington level of a single managerforall future United States
actions pertaining to Eniwetok".””
Ray returns to Kwajalein and recommendsto Air Force authorities a quarantine
of Runit Island to prevent dispersion of contamination because the road between the
dock and the PACE work area passes through a highly contaminated area.™
24 May 72
RADIATION
Runit Island is quarantined and the Air Force orders a cessation of all
operations there. Only minimum essential personnel are authorized access to the
island until NV issues recommendations.™
26 Jul - 2 Aug 72
RADIATION
A joint AEC-DODteam visits Enewetak Atoll to survey those portions of Runit
Island to
used in a PACE cratering experiment to determine necessary precautions
for conducting the planned PACE experiment or for relocating the experiment. The
eight-member surveillance team consists of two people from Air Force Weapons
Laboratory, three from the DNA, two from the AEC, and one from the WERL.
1 Aug 72
ADMINISTRATION
The AEC assigns the assistant general manager for military application
(AGMMA) "the overall authority and responsibility within the AEC for coordinatin
interagency and intra-agency matters related to the rehabilitation of the Eniwetok
Atoll.” Later in August the AGMMA assigns the NV responsibility for all AEC field
operations associated with the rehabilitation.”
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