¥ =“ Energy Research and Development Administration, "ERDA") agreed to cooperate in a program aimed at resettling the some five hundred Bikintans on Bikini Atoll. Verified Complaint, 9 62. Of course the vecple of Bikini received the announcement of these events and the February 1974 announcement by the Department of the Interior that some persons would be allowed to return by April of 1974, with sreat joy. Verified Complaint, 19 63, 82-85. The announcements intensified their desire to return to Bikini by mating the return seem imminent. For several years, the defendants have been carrying out a Bikini resettlement progran. Verified Complaint, 97 62-79. Some cleanup of the atoll nas occurred, crops have been planted, and forty concrete houses have v2en constructed on Bikini Island. “Ia. ty rr) ct o ry oO 3 » i ray (7) years have now elapsed sinze President Jonnson’s announze- ™ 3 om 2 er seven Yet, more than reople have been relocated, although a number of - persons and families nave returned independently or as workers, and now resides on 3ixini Isiand. to be Gone. Verified Complaint, $9 99. Much still remains Plans for construction of a dispensary, churen, store and thirty; eisht (38) more concrete houses, and for actual relocation of the Bikinisns tc their 2tcll, have not yet been finalized. Verified Complaint, ©9 €7 & 70, Exhibit D. yo cultural, environmental and medical implications zeonstructing homes and other buildings for a + at £2. w { tb Q Ty '3 wd ir) I+ o t* 3 wv QO 's a! ‘$ » fo ran a tb Problems Witn Tre Bikini Resettlement Prosream - Despite oe ct 3. dicnlated Marshalles: community, and then actually rasettling that Gomainity on an atili tong declared uninhabitable because of Y 3 o v suced by extensive nuclear testing programs, there vec lon of an environmental imoact statement and mr clcpratle avtemst to comply with any of the requirements of the Each wal Envdrsamencs) Polley Act ("NEPA"). 5052103 | 42 U.G.c. $$ 4321 et