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The Administration's substitute would also
ify
program would provide medical care for illnesses or
the fact that the
injuries which
have resulted from nuclear testix, and is not interrled to provide
comprehensive health care for ge:wral medical or psychiatric problens
that are wirelated to the testing progrm.
Our substitute for section 103 is as follows:
Sec. 103. The Act entitled "An Act to authorize certain
appropriations for the territories of the United States, to
amend certain Acts relating thereto, and for other purposes”
(91 Stat. 1159; Public Law 95-134) is amended—
(1) in subsection 104(a), by striking out
paragraph (4) and redesignating paragraph (5)
as paragraph (4); and
(2) by inserting after section 105, the
following new section:
*
"Sec. 106. (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of
lay, the Secretary of Energy shall provide for the people
of the atolls of Bikini, Enewetak, Rongelap, Utirik, ard
such other atolls as the Secretary of Energy may designate,
* and for their descendants, a program of medical surveillance
ard treatment, and envirormental research and monitoring, for
any iliness or injury which, in the sole opinion of the
Secretary of Energy, may have been the result of the United
nuclear ; weapons testing program at or near such atolls
States
t
during the period of 1946 to 1958.
Such program shall include—
*(1) a periodic medical surveillance of
such peopleand their descendants with
emphasis.on diagnosis andtreatment of
injury
or illness that-may have resulted fronsuch
"(2) a periodic comprehensive monitoring
..@R analyais of. the radiological statug_of the
people ard envirorment of the atolls described
subsection (a) of. this. section, employing
the most auvent scientific and technical
methods available, with emphasis on radionuclide
pathways to man through the food chain;
:
°(3) at appropriate intervals, but not less
frequently than once every five years, the develop-
ment of an updated radiation dose assessment,
together with an estimate of the risk associated