ty | |f : must be removed before the Bikini people can be perminently resettled on the atoll. Housing and community facilities are non-existent and need to be provided. This paper presents a redevelopment and resettlement program for Bikini in compliance with the President's statement that "It is our goal to assist the people of Bikini to build on these once desolated islands a new and model community." On August 12 the President requested the Secretary of Defense, the Chairman of the Atomic Imergy Commission, and the Director of the Bureau | of the Budget to cooperate and assist in effectuating a resettlement program. Bikini atoll is within the administrative jurisdiction of the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands and the Department of the Interior. The Atomic Energy Commission has an interest because the Coumission, under the Atomic Knergy Act of 1954 and its anendments, is given certain responsibilities to protect health and minimize danger to life or property from hazards that may be associated with activities in which AEC has a role. The Department of Defense is another interested agency since the research and development work in the military application of atomic energy at Bikini atoll was jointly conducted by the Defense Department and AEC under direction of the highest levels of the United States Government. The ' Bikini atoll was under military jurisdiction prior to the Presidential announcement, and the return of the islands followed Defense Department determination that Bikini atoll was no longer required for defense purposes. -3- .