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AUTHORIZATION, APPROPRIATION—
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PUBLIC LAW 95-134) (PLR. 6550);
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An
,
Act
to
authorize
certain
appropriations
for
the
territories
of
the
United
States, to amend certain Acts relating thereto, and for other purposes,
tives of the
Be it enacted by the Senate
and
House of Representa
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United
States of America
in Congress assembled,
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TITLE 1
Se weTENALAeS,
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and meridian.
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erriteriesofthe
Appropriation
authorization.
Sec. 101. (a) Section 2 of the Act of June 30, 1954 (68 Stat. 330), as
amended, is further amended by changing “and such amounts as were
authorized but not appropriated for fiscal year 1975,” to read “and such
amounts as were authorized but not appropriated for fiscal years 1975,
Trust Territory of
the Pacific
Islands.
48
USC 1681
note,
$122,700,000; for fiscal year 1980, $112,000,000;”.
(b) Section 2 of the Act of June 30, 195+ (68 Stat. 330), as amended,
ts further amended by (1) deleting “but not to exceed $10,000,000,” and
(2) deleting all of the languave beginning with the words “which
ainounts for each fiscal year” up to and including the words “calendar
year 1974,”.
Sec. 102. Until the provisions of the covenant to establish a Commonwealth for the Northern Mariana Islands (90 Stat. 263) have been
met and approved as required in section 1003(b) thereof, there is
hereby authorized to be appropriated $13,515,000 for the government
Northern
MaranaIsi-nds.
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1976, and 1977; forfiscal year 1978, $90.00U.UU0; for fiscal year 1979,
REREADWN GENAL8
BOTUD beeae
Territori
of the Northern Mariana Islands. When such conditions are met, the
appropriations authorized jn article VII, sectiun 704, of said covenant
shal] become effective.
Src. 103. For the rehabilitation and resettlement of Enewetak Atol]} Enewetak Atoll.
inthe Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands there is hereby authorized
to be appropriated $12,400,000 (July 1976 prices) plus or minus such
ainounts, if any, as may be justifed by renson of ordinary fluctuations
in construction costs as indicated by engineering cost indexes applicable to the types of construction involved.
Src. 104. (2) In addition to appropriations authorized to compen- Rongelap Atoll
sate inhabitants of Roneelap Atoll and Utirik Atoll in the Trust and Utirik Atoll.
Territory of the Pacific Islands for radiation exposure sustained by Radiation
them as a result of » thermonuclear detonation at Bikini Atoi] in the “ctms
Marshall Islands on March 1, 1954. pursuant to the Act.of Aneust 22,
IM6+ (78 Stat. 598), elfective October 1, 1977, there are authorizedto
he appropriated such amounts as may be necessary to carry out the
provisions of this section and the Secretary of the Interior (hereafter
Fags peer ee remope
THORTSt ROlsetile bn EU eo,
ilar Affairs).
i this section referred to ns the “Seeretary”) is authorized and
‘directed to make the payments as hereafter provided in this: paragraph
to individuals, or to their heirs or legatees, as the case may be, who
Were on March 1, 1954, residents on Rengelap Atoll or Utirik Atoll
in the Marshall Islands: “7
Payments to heirs
{1) The Seerctary shall pay $25,000 to cach such individual or legates.
rom_ whom the thyroid);
or 2 neuroforoma in the néck
was surgically
removed, ory
; daveloped hypothyroidlisn.,
or who develops2 padiation-related malignaicy, such vs itukemfa.
~(2) The Seeretary shall pay 91.000 to cach” individual who,
on such date, was a resident on UtirikAtoll, 7-
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