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Ojelang Atoll is within the region of low level fallout.
At least onca
during the nuclear testing period, it is reported that the U.S. Navy
temporarily evacuated the peosle of Ujelang by taking the entire comminity

to sea during a tast operation.

Today approximately 500 people make up

the Ujelang-Znewetak community,

with another 40 or so Ujelangese living on Ebeye or Majurc.

With the start of the cleanup and rehabilitation program of Enewetak
Atoll in 1976, a small revolving community of some 60 Ujelangese was
permitted to live on Japtan Island in the southern part of Enewetak

Atoll. Most of the members of the Ujelang community have thus lived for
at least a six month ceriod on Japtan Island during the timespan of
1976-1960. In April 1980, the Japtan community was expanded to 140
individuals. As of July 1, 1980, 265 Enewetakese had returned to the
three new comminities. Most of the remaining sopulation on Cjelang is
expected to return to Enewetak and Medren within the coming year.
Ujelang Atoll, however, will continue to be csed as a scurce of fresh
food supply and will be in continual use for the next 9-10 years by the
Enewetak people, sither by having an cutrost community there or a ravolving
comminity.

Health care for the people of Enewetak, accordingly, must be

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provided at Ujelang if a community remains there as well as Enewetak.

The Department of Energy in the spring of 1980 carried out a “whole
body" count on the entire Ujelang group orior to the planned return to
the southern parts of Enewatak Atoll. No basic medical survey of the
Enewetak group has as yet been carried out.
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Other Atolls of the Northern Marshalls

The Government of the Marshall Islands has expressed considerable concern
that other atolls in she Northern Marshalls known to be in the areas of
low level radiation fallout, should in reality be listed in the category
of “affected atolis".
In early 1979, the Govermment of the Marshall Islands on the basis of
results of interviews, questionnaires, and examinations of the pecple of

Likiep Atoll came to the conclusion that there is more than a normal
incidence of thyroid disorders, throat sroblems, and other medical
the seovle cof that ato

The Government of the Marshalls has requested that the health of the

people of Likiep and associated atolls be studied.

The Desar=ment of

tovide a biochemical seraening
profile of the
people of Likiep Atoll, and of the people of one other atoll in the
Marshalls to be selected as a comparison population.

Medical staf#

would be included in the survey team. Necotiations between the Department
of the Interior, the Deparment of Energy, and “he Goverment of the
Marshall Islands currently (summer 1980) are underway ts accomplish “he
carrying out of the screening profile of the poeple of Likiep Atoll.

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