401688
UNITED STATES
ENERGY RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT ADMINISTRATION
WASHINGTON, D.C. 20545
SEP 29 1976
Mahion E. Gates, Manager
Nevada Operations Office
AIR SAMPLING IN THE MARSHALL ISLANDS
This is in response to your memorandum of August 26, 1976, about
air sampling on Enewetak and Bikini Atolls.
We share your concern
about the need for additional air sampling data for both atolls and the
special needs at Bikini.
We appreciate the ground work that NV has done with LLL which
defines the type of program that should be conducted as part of the
Enewetak cleanup and urge you to continue pursuing this with LLL
and DNA,
As for the special problems at Bikini, SSC has asked Brookhaven
Laboratory to include air sampling as part of this environmental
survelllance program, Since many of the logistics problems have
already been solved, it seems more efficient to add this task to the
BNL program. The team that is now in the Pacific is exploring ways
and means for making measurements of airborne plutonium, including
enlisting the aid of local inhabitants to assist in the sample collection,
BNL will fully coordinate their sampling procedures, data analyses,
with NV and LLL, and assure that the data are incorporated in the
analysis of the environmental surveillance program as well as the
medical studies under Dr. Conard.
I appreciate your calling this matter to our attention and your assistance and cooperation in this program.
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Martin B. Biles, Director
Division of Safety, Standards,
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