examinations may go on for 25 years or more,
4.

As provided for by law (introduced by the Committee during the First

Regular Session of the Fifth Congress)

the Trust Territory will provide free

transportation, housing and ner diem to those Rongelap and Utirik survivors,
their descendants, and those who aqree to act as members of a control group if
they wish to go to Majuro for a healtly examination.
this law,

The Trust Territory,

under

will also be responsible for keeping track of all survivors and

descendants, and control persons and arrange to see that they are all in
places available to the BNL team during its visits.
5.

It is recommended, in conjunction with BNL and the AEC, that health

aides on Rongelap and Utirik should be given additional training in record
keeping and certain methods of examination (palpation of the thyroid, for
example).

They should also be required to send in a monthly report by radio

to Majuro and written monthly reports

(vital statistics) on every field trip

vessel,
6.

It is also recommended that the Division of Community Development

encourage self-help programs in the areas of agriculture,

fisheries,

and

handicraft production on the islands of ‘Rongelap and Utirik.

Congress of Micronesia

1,

it is recommended that the Congress of Micronesia pass, the law

introduced by the Committee which will provide for free transportation, housing,
and per diem for exposed,
2.

descendants of exposed,

and control persons.

The Committee also recommends that the Congress,

through its Special

Joint Committee shall, in conjunction with the Department of liealth Services,
cause to be printed survivors and control persons hooklets in Marshallese and
English with the name, case number, name of island, etc., as described in

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