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2 Aug 78
AGREEMENT
Liverman, the DOE acting assistant secretary for environment, signs the
Memorandum of Agreement between the Navy, the DOE, and the DO! on logistics
support for the aerial radiological survey of the northern Marshall Islands.*”
16 Aug 78
AGREEMENT
RELOCATION
After concernsare raised during meetings with the residents of Bikini and Kili
Islands, officials of the DOE, representing the U.S. government, and the T.T. sign a
Statement of understanding on moving Bikinians. The DO! will arrange for
satisfactory permanentrelocation and will ask the DOE to assure that medical needs
of Bikini Island residents are met. The U.S. governmentwill undertake a program for
the permanentrehabilitation of Kili and, following completion of the aerial survey,will
work with Kili residents to choose other relocation sites. If future studies show Eneu
can be safely inhabited, Bikini residents will be allowed to move there. Brief visits
to Bikini will be allowed. Necessary housing, community facilities, and a dock will be
built at Kili. A relocation allowance of $100.72 per person will be given to Bikini
residents.“*
18 Aug 78
LEGAL RESPONSIBILITY
RELOCATION
P.L. 95-348 appropriates $15 million for the Bikini people evacuated from
Bikini Atoll as a result of nuclear tests, of which $12 million is authorized for the
relocation and resettlement of the Bikini people, and $3 million is held in trust
pursuant to the trust agreement in P.L 94-34. The Secretary of the Interior must
submit a progress report to Congress on efforts to find a permanent location for
these people by 1 July 1979.”
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27 Oct 78
LEGAL RESPONSIBILITY
RADIATION
The People of Bikini, et al., vs. Robert C. Seamans, Jr., et al., of October 1975,
is dismissed. Following negotiations with the Department of Justice, the plaintiffs
drop the suit on condition that a more comprehensive radiological survey of Bikini is
conducted and thatthis survey be extended to ten other atolls and two otherislands.
The Bikini people will select a qualified scientist to work under contract with the DOE
to provide independent analysis of survey data.*”
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