SUMMARY OF RELEVANT BACKGROUND
FOR LAND USE CLAIMS
I.
ENEWETAK ATOLL.
The United States Government obtained the exclusive _
right to use and occupy the land of Enewetak Atoll under
a 1946 agreement with the Government of the Trust
Territory of the Pacific Islands (the Trust Government). .
The atoll remained populated by 136 inhabitants until
1947, when it was selected as a nuclear weapons test.
Site.
The people were relocated in December of that
year to Ujelang Atoll, where most of them have remained.
Enewetak Atoll consists of 39 islands.
land area is 1760 acres.
The total
Ujelang Atoll consists of 22
-», .iSlands. .The total land area is 428.8 acres... The
'-> names of.the islands.on the two atolls and their
respective land areas are shown on the schedule at Tab A.
Between April 1948 and July'1958, Enewetak Atoll
was the site of 43 nuclear tests.
The geoyraphical
distribution of the tests is shown by the map at Tab B
and in the following table:
Number of
|
__Tests
18
10
-
4
,
.
,
Island Name
Runit
Enjebi
Elukiab
3
Aomon
1
1
Bokoluo
Dridrilbwij
2
Eleleron
1
1
1.
Bokaidrikdrik
Lujor
Mut
al
Biken
.
oS
|
yoo
In 1956,a settlement was negotiated with the Enewetak
a ee FE at a ee
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