to accomplish the clean-up using personnel and equipment paid
for out of their respective budgets.

It

is estimated

that

this work will cost the services approximately $60 million.
Another $2.4 million was appropriated for rehabilitation.

Additionally, completion of necessary radiological work

will cost the Department of Energy at least $5.2 million

which will come out of its budget.

When it passed the legislation for the clean-up of

Enewetak, Congress expressed a clear intention that its
appropriation constituted the total commitment of the

United States for this purpose.

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Thus,

the Act provided:

“That none Of the funds appropriated
under this [Military Construction, Defense
Agencies] paragraph may be’ expended for the

-- " cleanup of Enewetak Atoll until such time

as the Secretary of Defense receives certification from appropriate administering
authorities of the Trust Territory of the
Pacific Islands that an agreement has been
reached with the owners of the land of
Enewetak Atoll or their duly constituted
representatives that this appropriation
shall constitute the total commitment of
the Government of the United States for
the cleanup of Enewetak Atoll.”

September

16,

1976,

the Trust Government and representatives

of the Enewetak people entered into an agreement recognizing
that the appropriation made under Public Law No. 94-367 canstituted the total commitment of the United States Government
for the clean-up of the atoll.
A copy of this agreement is

attached

at

Tab D.

To summarize,

the people lost the use of the Land on

Enewetak Atoll from 1947 to the present.

In compensation

for this loss of use, the people already have been paid .
monetary compensation of $1,195,000, and given use,
occupancy and full title to 428.8 acres of substitute
land om Ujelang Atoll which has beer valued by the
' Department of the Interior at $425,000.
Finally, the
United States

has undertaken a comprehensive clean-up

and rehabilitation program that will cost more than
$96 million when completed.

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