CHAPTER 3
NEED TO RESOLVE TEST-RELATED ISSUES
Some test-rélated issues remain unsettled and need to
ce resolved soon.
The issues include, but are not neces-
sarily limited to, loss of land, loss of land use, loss of
cash crop, racéiological monitoring, the need for a supplemental feeding program, the observance of living pattern
restrictions, and the actions to be taken should the people
of Enewetak receive excessive doses of radiation.
The expectation that the TTPI Agreement will end by 1981, plus
the fact that the future political status of the Marshall
Islands, of which Enewetak Atoll is a part, is uncertain,
further complicates matters.
Some of these issues are
presently being addressed by the Office of Micronesian
Status Negotiations.
The Enewecak people have been pézid various sums by the
United States for use of the atoll «znd for war damage.
These
payments, nowever, have not included amounts for damage related to the nuclear testing program.
COMPENSATION AWARDED AND
PAID TO THEE PEGPLE OF ENEWETAK
In 1956, 9 years after the people of Enewetaxk were
relocated by the United States to Ujelang Atoll, the TTPI
paid tne pvecple $25,000 in cash and $150,000 in trust for use
of che atoll.
tin 1969, TTPI paid them another $1,020,000 in
trust for (1) the hardships they suffered as a result of
being displaced,
(2)
their continued displacement in the
foreseeabie future, and (3) the decline in productivity of
subsistence agriculture. In 1976,' TTPI permanently ctransferred titie of Ujelang Atoll to the seonvle of Enewetaxk as
additional consideration.
Also in 1976,
the Micronesian Claims Commission awarced
the people of Enewetak about $3 million, pursuant to titles I
anc II of the Micronesian Claims Act of 1971. L/
The Commission's cecisicn ssecilically provided that none ‘ef the
t
award was for iss: use cf land or damage sccecurring after 1321
anc Sirectliy relatec es the atomic testine srcqram.
The
vecois ci inewertax were caid about $1.7 miliion scecaus2 ins
ao Title I zeals
with World War II ¢laims and Title
Tr ce2.5
“ witn cest-Nerld War Ir claims sefsre Joly 1, L341.
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