DRAFT
18 Oct 73
ADMINISTRATION
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The director, Office of Management and Budget (OMB) provides guidance to
the AEC, the DOD, and the DO! on indusion of funds in the FY 1975 budget for
cleanup and rehabilitation of Enewetak. The FY 1975 budget should “show continuing
Administration commitment to the dean-up and rehabilitation of the Atoll, but
consistent with current uncertainty regarding the final detailed clean-up and
rehabilitation plan." Agency responsibilities identified are: the DOD for maintaining
ongoing facilities and operations and deanup at Enewetak; the DOI for rehabilitation;and the AEC for radiological monitoring and survey. Subsequently AGMMA calls for
a dlarification of terminology between "radiological control,” a DNA responsibility, and
"radiological monitoring," an AEC responsibility.”
1974-1975
CONTRACTOR
RADIATION
The AEC/DBER sponsors a research program conducted by LLL and the
University of Hawaii to study the groundwater on several islets in the EnewetakAtoll
in order to characterize the ground water for possible use by returning Marshallese
and to investigate the hydrology and recycling of radionuclides in an atoll
environment. Drilling for wells takes place in mid-1974, and sampling programs are
carried out in 1974 and 1975.%°
1 Jan 74
ADMINISTRATION
Host manager responsibility for Enewetak Auxiliary Airfield is transferred from
the Department of the Air Force to the DNA.
9 Jan 74
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ADMINISTRATION
At the request of MLSC, the signing of documents to transfer control of
Enewetak Atoll: froth the DOD to the 7:7. is delayed to allow representatives of the
people of Enewetak' to’review the document.™# "8
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CONGRESSIONAL RELATIONSHIP
___ SenateJoint Resolution No. 90, H.D. |, is adopted by the Fifth Congress of
Micronesia, Second Regular Session "Requesting UnitedStates Congressional funding
of the Bikini Rehabilitation Projects be separate and distinct from annual United States
Congress Grant Funds for the T.T. of the Pacific Islands".
28 Feb 74
AGREEMENT
CLAIMS
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The Special Joint Committee Concerning Rongelap and Utirik Atolls
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the Fifth Congress of Micronesia on compensation
the people of Rongelap and
Utirik.
According to the report, the AEC complied with the committee's
recommendation to send an AEC representative on the 1974 medical survey. The
AEC also agreed to another committee recommendation to supply money for
Micronesian P.L 5-52 by allocating $20,000 for the first year. The committee also
wanted the AEC to pay the "inconvenience money” promised in 1970, and the AEC
indicated that it "is ready to provide $18,212 for the 157 people of Utirik who were
exposed....There will be no release ofliability for the AEC or the U.S. Governmentif
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