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must be “cleaned up” before the displaced tribes cun return. Some of
this debris is radionctive und it is plauned to dump this debris in a
crater left from the tests and cap it with concreie. The remaining
debris i= in the forn: of buildings, piers and ships left over from World
War IL as well as the testing period, sud constitutes a safety hazard
and 15 an obstruction to orderly resectlement. The Fiscal Yeur 1976
request was for $14.1 million as the first increment of a $40 million
cleanup program. In addition to cleanup costs it is estimated that the
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e1visioned the use of U.S. troops (Army engineers or Navy Seabees)
who are trained in nuclear decontamination and whose use should
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Department of the Interior will require over $19 million to resettle
the tribes on Enewetnk.
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provide substantial cost savings. The least cost estimate provided
the Department which would accomplish the minimum required
cleanup was $25 million.
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to accomplish the cleanup. The Department is charged to accomplish
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esettlement is accomplished. Although the moral obligation to permit_3
the Enewetak people to retura to their atoll was a major consideration,
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cost several billion dollars without making a responsible effort to
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restore the atoll to the degree that it can be made habitable.
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The Fiscal Year 1976 request conteins $187 million for the con-
tinued construction of the Trident support facility at Bangor,
Washington. The Congress has authorized over $200 million since
FY73 for the construction of this facility and the Committee is
pleased to note that progress at the site is good. The total cost of the
facility is now reported to be $647 million, an increase of $27 million
over the total] estimate provided by the Navy last year, which results
primarily from the additional requirement to furnish community
assistance funds as provided for in the Fiscal vear 1975 Act. The
Department once egain assured the Committee that the single site
at Bangor would service the entire Trident requirement for the
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catable quarters from prefabricated buildings in Korea. This approach
should prove to be costeffective if U.S. units are relocated within
Korea or returned to the U.S. The committee expects thxt the concept
of relocatable facilities be considered at all oversees locations as part
of the normal planning process.
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rights at Fort Polk, Louisiana. There is serious question that the
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