6 @ based upon an averare of 6 persons for each family. They also include a feeding subsidy of $3.00 a day per family for its first year on Bikini, dropping to $2.00 a day per family for the second and subsequent years. The employment of Bikinians in the clearing and redevelopment work will diminish the need for direct feeding subsidies pending the maturation of commercial and food crops. However, one of the important reasons for 4 feeding subsidy is to insure both an adequate and properly balanced diet for the Bikini residents in order to minimize uptake of radionuclides as has been recommended by AEC. Employment is a basic assumption in the plans for Bikini and the cost estimates include wages at the prevailing scale. The goal is to provide an attractive, healthful, liveable community fully and adequately meeting the needs of the people of the atoll; one which can serve as a model for community development in other Pacific islands. The Trust Territory Government, working with the Bikini people is now completing planning and prototype housing designs and preparing plans for other facilities in fiscal year 1969. This can be accomplished by the Trust Territory with funds currently available. It is also planning to establish a small administrative unit on Bikini in fiscal year 1969 to protect existing assets and facilities and to place the atoll under adequate police and administrative control. This can be accomplished by the Trust Territory with funds currently available. Tne overall resettlement plan is phased over a six-year period beginning in fiscal year 1970 when clearing of the atoll of test related debris will have been completed. The planting program for coconuts and other crops is expected to require two years, ‘fiscal years 1970 and 1971. ‘The major element will be the planting of approximately 100,000 coconuts in cleared 5005013 ~9--