and Master Plan, together with related material in Marshallese, as vell as Englisa. Iv, IMMEDIATE EXAMINATION OF PERSONS WHO HAVE BEES PLACED AT RISK August 12, 1968 was the date of inception of the Bikini Resettlement. On that date President Lyndon B. Johnson announced the availability of Bikini Atoll for return to the Bikini People. Verified Complaint " 60. Ina press release on the same cate AEC deemed its own role in the decision to initiate the Resettlement "greatly satisfying’. The decision to initiate the Resettlenent,,simul- taneously announced by AEC and the President, was based ona 1967 radiation survey of Bikini Atoll, performed by‘the AEC and an evaluation of the results of that survey by an Ad Hoc Committee, most of whose meabers had active AEC ties at the time they served on the Committee. As a result of the 1967 survey and the 1968 report of the Ad Hoc Committee, the Bikini Resettlement was begun, leading eventually to clean-up of debris and scrud vegetation on the islands of Bikini and Eney, replanting of Bikini and Eneu with coconuts, pandanes, and breadfruit and construction t of Phase I Housing (consisting of 40 houses) on 3ikini Island. Marshallese laborers, including some mexbders of the People of Bikini, were used for the work on Bikini Island. After construction of the Phase I Housing, several 3ikini families voluntarily moved back to Bikini Island, including the family of one of the Plaintiifs in this action. presence approuimately 75 seopie live on Zikini Island and pernaps as many 2s 100 to 150 peosie have deen placed at risk as a result cof their presence om 3ikini Island, exposed to what are now knoim to be very high levels of 5052015 -:- PRIVACY ACT MATERIAL REMOVED ’