DRAFT | 56 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.” - i seen . RELOCATION ep ty dee ah! Relocation of Biking residents to. Kili island.beging.° 0-0 civ ce | a a Sep 78 foa et os repels AUS . esses z ° web PIE tia RADIATION EE +. 350 y i 1 . \ ul ade OS ie The technical phase of the Thirteen Atoll Survey begins.*' 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.*” SOouuLY