DRAFT 28 10 May 67 ADMINISTRATION P.L. 90-16 appropriates $25 million for 1967 and $35 million each for 1968 and 1969 "for the continuance of civil government for the T.T. ... and for other purposes."'” 21 Aug 67 CONGRESSIONAL RESPONSIBILITY President Johnson submits a proposed joint resolution to Congress for the creation of a commission on the status of the T.T. to develop recommendations to establish self-government in Micronesia." 20 Oct 67 RELOCATION Approximately 300 Enewetak people on Ujelang board a T.T. supply ship and demand to be moved to Majuro. they are angered the lack of food and poor conditions on Ujelang.’”’ 28 Feb 68 RADIATION RELOCATION Officials from the DOI, the National Security Council, the DOD, the DBM and the division of operational safety (DOS) of the AEC, and the T.T. conclude that resettlement of Bikini Atoll would soon result in external exposure levels approximately double that of the "average U. S. population,” but similar to that of the residents of the Colorado Plateau. Burying or plowing the soil, however, while "presumably" reducing this exposure to "near average levels," would also reduce the island’s fertility. In addition, consumption of local produce would yield cesium'” burdens 20 to 50 times that in the U. S. during the 1963-1964 fallout period, but these levels could be reduced to those “deemed acceptable ... in recent years" by limiting local food sources and providing substitutes.'” March 68 CONTRACTOR MEDICAL. | Oo _ Conard’‘disédvers ‘two morechildten with thyroid nodules and decides to bring four more people to BNL. Three of these four have not responded to hormone therapy and the fourth is a 29-year-old woman with an “unidentified tumor in the neck lateral to the gland.""* 14 March 68 AGREEMENT Representatives of the Enewetak people and the T.T. high commissioner amend the 19 November 1956 agreement concerning the "use of Enewetak Atoll" to give the high commissioner more discretion in how trust funds are invested.'* 13 May 68 RADIATION RELOCATION For the Bikini cleanup Martin B. Biles, director of the AEC/DOS, recommends the removal of contaminated scrap metal from Bikini to make the radioactive scrap tues CG: oc [ao cm CH unavailable to native collectors.'*