EFENSE NUCLEAR AGENCY
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MEMORANDUM FOR:
SUBJECT:
THE ASSISTANT SECRETARY OF DEFENSE
(International Security Affairs)
Planning for DOD Efforts to Return Eniwetok to TIPI
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1. Reference is made to-your memorandum,
17 July 1972,
subject
as above, which requested this agency to initiate planning to
develop the scope of work and resources required to clean up
Eniwetok ror return to the TTPI.
2.
In anticipation of this assicnment, DNA participated in a
joint survey of the islands with the AEC in May 1972 to determine the nature and extent of the work involved and to arrive
at an order of macnitude estimate of cost.
Based on information .
Obtained during this survey, it was estimated that cleanup costs
alone might run as much as $40 million and that Runit Island
and perhaps Encgebi may be contaminated to such an extent, that
it may not be economically feasible to make them safe for human
use.
A later estimate made by Holmes & Narver,
Inc.
for the
AEC gave @ Similar order of magnitude cost, indicating the
Cleanup to be 4 1-1/2 - 2 year job which would cost from $27
to $35 millicn with the cost of air and ocean transportation
to be added anc with disposal of radioactive debris by deep
ocean purial.
3.
Subsequently,
a joint meeting was held between AEC and DNA
at Germantown, Maryland, on 17 August 1972 to jointly review
the initormation available, to develop a schedule of actions to
assist in our planning for this cleanup task and to develop
information and recommendations in response to your memorandum.
The substance of cur discussions and the conclusions reached
at this meeting are contained in Enclosure l.
FOR THE DIRECTOR:
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