DRAFT/6/21/79 MEMORANDUM FOR HONORABLE FROM: Matthew C. SUBJECT: ZBIGNIEW BRZEZINSKI 410761 Nimetz Micronesian Nuclear Claims This paper is in response to the President's request to submit a single paper containing the views of all agencies with respect to the following item: "--~$10,000,000 one time payment to extinguisk @) land claims resulting from the U.S. nuclear weapons testing program in the Northern Marshall Islands; and authorization to continue and extend the U.S. *,) health care,compensation and monitoring activities’ “undertaken in consequence of that“program. All agencies recommend approval of this item. It would authorize action on the following recommendations of xhe Interagency Group: (1) Land Claims . The background to this recommendation is Lbntainea in the memorandum at Tab A. The United States sHould seek to negotiate settlement of known and definable land claims. A figure of $10 million is recommended for the reasons stated in the attachment at Tab B. (2) Compensation for Personal Injury Public Law 95-134 provided levels of compensation for personal injury to people from Rongelap and Utirik exposed accidentally to radiation in 1954. Without provision in the Compact, this legislation will expire when the Trusteeship ends. The United States should continue the compensation provided for in Public Law 95-134 in the post- trusteeship period and extend that coverage Marshallese. . to all affected Cost of this program to date has been $1,383,000. cost of the Tab C. (3) shed in extended program has Medical not yet been estimated. The See Treatment The ‘programs. of..treatment and inspection estabPublic Law_95-134->for Rongelap and Utirik should be _continued,—and— —ilater-establysned-medical—evidence ———7~ = “warrants, such programs should be extended to all radiation- BEST COPY AVAILABLE