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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.
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of the atoll nas occurred, crops have been planted, and forty concrete
houses have v2en constructed on Bikini Island. “Ia.
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Verified Complaint, $9 99.
Much still remains
Plans for construction of a dispensary,
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store
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thirty; eisht (38) more concrete houses, and for actual relocation of the
Bikinisns tc their 2tcll, have not yet been finalized.
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