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MEMORANDUM FOR CHAIRMAN SEABORG
COMMISSIONER RAMEY
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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
take steps to determine "whether Bikini and its lagoon are now safe for
continued habitation and whether the Bikinians could have hazard~-free
use of the resources of the atoll and its adjacent water areas.'' In
compliance with the request to the Divisions of Biology and Medicine
and Operational Safety, as referred to in your letter of December 20,
1966, to Secretary Udall (copy attached), the Bikini Atoll was resur-
veyed in April-May 1967.
Attached is a report entitled "Meeting to Discuss Return of Natives to
the Bikini Atoll." Perusal of this report will reveal that interested
groups in the Atomic Energy Commission and in the Department of the
Interior have taken steps which will lead to the development of a rec-
ommendation regarding the feasibility, from the standpoint of the radi-
ation situation, of the return of the natives to the Bikini Atoll.
The Division of Biology and Medicine, the Division of Operational Safety,
and representatives from the Department of the Interior, are now organizing a meeting to be held May 13-15 or 16, 1968, in which the members
of the team which resurveyed the Bikini Atoll, together with a group of
expert consultants, will review the findings and implications of the
radiation measurements and analytical data which grew out of the survey.
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This group will be asked to prepare a recommendation to the Commission.