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within three days of the test to Kwajalein Atoll.
The Utirik
people were returned to that atoll after three months.

The Rongelap people were not returned to that atoll for
three years.

No compensation for land use claims has been authorized or paid to the Utirik people.
In 1964, an ex
gratia payment in the amount of $10,800 was made to each
resident of Rongelap who was evacuated from that atoll

as a result of the 1954 test.

This payment was made as

'- compensation. for the inconvenience of relocation and
for the lost use of the land.
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