94 STAT. 84 PUBLIC LAW96-205—MAR. 12, 1980 Public Law 96-205 96th Congress Mar. 12, 1980 (H.R. 3756) United States insular areas. Appropnation autnoriation, 48 USC 1681 note. Rad:ation exposure. compensation, research, and medica] care. 48 USC 168] note, An Act To authorize appropriations for certain insuiar areas of the United States, and for other purposes. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, TITLE I-—TRUST TERRITORY OF THE PACIFIC ISLANDS Sec. 101. Section 2 of the Act of June 30, 1954 (68 Stat. 330), is amended by inserting after “for fiscal year 1980, $112,000,000." the following: “for fiscal years after fiscal year 1980, such sums as maybe necessary, including, but not limited to, sums needed for completion of the capital improvement program, for a basic communicatons system, and for a feasibility study and construction of a hydroelectric project on Ponape:”. . Sec. 192. The Act entitled “Am Act to autnorize certain approoriations for the territories of the United States. to amend certain Acts relating thereto, and for other purposes’’ (91 Stat. 1159; Pubic Law 05-134) is amended by inserting after section 193, the following new section: . “Sec. 106. (a) In addition to any other payments or benefit provided by law to compensate inhabitants of the atolls of Bikini Enewetak, Rongelap, and Utirik, in the Marshall Islands, for radiation exposure or other losses sustained by them as a result ef the United States nuclear weapons testing program ator near their atolls during the period 1946 to 1958, the Secretary of the Interior (hereinafter in this section referred to as the ‘Secretary’) shall provide for the people of the atolls of Bikini, Enewetak, Rongelap, and Utirik and for the people of such other atolls as may be found to be or to have been exposed to radiation from the nuciear weapons testing program, a program of medical care and treatment and environmental re search and monitoring for any Injury, illness, or condition which may be the result directly or indirectly of such nuclear weapons testing program. The programshallbe implemented according to a plan developed by the Secretary in consultation with the Secretaries of Defense, Energy, and Health, Education, and Welfare and with the direct involvement of representatives from the people of each of the affected atolls and from the government of the Marshall Islands. The pfan shall set forth, as appropriate to the situation, condition, and needs of the individual atoll peopies: V V “(1) an integrated, comprehensive health care program includ- = 1 ing primary, secondary, and tertiary care with special emphasis upon the biologica! effects of ionizing radiation; _ (2) a schedule for the periodic comprehensive survey and i analysis of the radiological status of the atolls to and at appropriate intervals, but not less frequently than once everyfive years, the development of an updated radiation dose assessment, together with an estimate of the risks associated with the predicted human exposure, for each sucn atoll; and