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Leo M. Krulitz
October_30, 1979
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At our request, architect Carlton Hawpe (who speaks Marshallese
and English) was engaged by Holmes & Narver and Holmes &
Narver was engaged to assist in the drafting of the master
In November 1973, the plan was
plan. It went very well.
one at
It included two major settlements:
completed.
Enewetak island in ‘the south and the other at Enjebi.
Enjebi was included because that is what the people wanted
and because no one in the government even suggested that
Enjebi could not be included.
In September 1974., wh~n General Warren D. Johnson, then
DNA director, came to Enewetak atoll to meet with the people
and present the draft environmental impact statement, the
people were informed for the first time that the Atomic
Energy Commission recommended against the resettlement of
Enjebi and would oppose the funding of the entire program
if Enjebi were included.
General Johnson was accompanied
by high level representatives of the Atomic Energy Commission,
the Department of the Interior, the Environmental Protection
Agency and the Trust Territory Government.
It was clear to all of us, that *is to the people of Enewetak
It was a
and their counsel, that we had no real choice.
matter of acceding to the AEC “recommendation” and revisin9
the Master Plan to cut Enjebi out, or having no cleanuP
and resettlement program at all. EIS, yol. I S7. .
The people of Enewetak returned to Ujelang to revise the
Master Plan, to move everyone to residences in the southern
islands of Enewetak, Medren and Japtan.
That was not an
eaSy accommodation to ach,ieve, even though they are a
remarkably cohensive and cooperative group, but it worked
out and the revised Master Plan of March 1975 excluded
II, Tab D.
Enj ebi. EIS, vol.
I want to make it very clear that the people of Enewetak
never did agree to forego the resettlement of Enjebi.
They acceded to it at the time because they hadno
real
choice. To be sure, the “Case 3“, which excluded Enjebi,
See draft EIS S5.4.3.
was presented as a “recommendation.”
But the AEC had made up its mind unilaterally, in advance,
and without the support of the AEC, the government’s
radiation experts, prospects for funding of the program
were scant if not nonexistent.

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