FIFTH CONGRESS OF i1CRONZSTIA
F INST REGULAR SESSION, 1973

HOUSE JOINT RESOLUTION Wo, 73

A HOUSE JOINT RESOLUTION
Extending the life of the Special Joint Committee Concerning
Rongelap and Utirik Atolls,
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WaE2EAS, under Public Law No. 4C-33 as enacted by the Second
Regular Session of the Fourth Congress of liicronesia a Special
Joint Committee Concerning Rongelap and Utirik Atolls was created
and given the mandate, among other things, to investigate the
results of irradiation on the people of Rongelap and Utirik Atolls
inthe Marshall Islands District; and
WHEREAS, the said Special Joint Committee Concerning Rongelap
and Utirik Atolls submitted to this First Regular Session of the
Fifth Congress of tiicronesia a report containing its findings and

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recommending additional matters that this Congress should further

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investigate; now, therefore,

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BE IT RESOLVED by the House of Representatives of the Fifth

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Congress of Micronesia, First Regular Session, 1973, the Senate

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concurring, that the life of the Special Joint Comittee Concerning

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Rongelap and Utirik Atolls as created by Public Law No. 4C-33 is

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hereby extended until March 30, 1975,

The said Special Committee

shall have the same functions, duties, powers, and responsibilities
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as specified by Sections 3 and 4 of Public Law No. 4C-33; shail

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have the same Committee membership and composition; and shali, in

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addition, have powers and responsibilities to iavestigate

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the question of compensation for property damage to the islands

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and atolls and peoples thereof, aud any other and related matters

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