4O1000 PUBLIC LAW 96~-203—MAR. 12, 1980 94 STAT. 84 Public Law 96-205 96th Congress Mar. 12, 1980 (H.R. 3756} An Act To authorize appropriations fer certain insular areas of the United States, and for other purposes. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States insular areas. Appropriation authorization. United States ofAmerica in Congress assembled, 48 USC 1681 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 fiseal years after fiscal year 1980, such sums us may be necessary, including, but not limited to, sums needed for completion of the capital improvement pregram, for a basic communications system, and for a feasibility study and construction of a hydroelectric project on Ponape;”. Sec. 102. 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 by inserting after section 105, the following new section: note, Radiation exposure, compensation, research, and medical care. 48 USC 1651 note. TITLE I—TRUST TERRITORY OF THE PACIFIC ISLANDS | “Sec: 106. (a) In addition to any other payments or benefits provided by law to compensate inhabitants of the atolls of Bikini, Enewetak, Rongelap, and Utirik, in the Marsha!] Islands, for radiation exposure or other losses sustained by them as a result of the United States nuclear weapons testing program at or neartheir atolls during the period 1946 to 1958, the Secretary of the Interior (herein- after 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 nuclear weapons testing program, a program of medical care and treatment and environmental re- search and monitoring for any injury,illness, or condition which ma be the result directly or indirectly of such nuclear weaponsTesti program. The program shall be 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 plan shall set forth, as appropriate to the situation, condition, and needs of the individual atoll peoples: “(1) an integrated, comprehensive health care program including primary, secondary, and tertiary care with special emphasis uponthe biological effects of ionizing radiation; ‘(2) a scnedule for the periodic comprehensive survey and analysis of the radiological status of the atolls to and at appropriate intervals, but not less frequently than once every five years, the development of an updated radiation dose assessment, together with an estimate of the risks associated with the predicted humanexposure, for each such atoll; and ee ee ee pee ~ ee