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(4)

Although the Interior Department's preliminary view is

that a program for health care that is less extensive than that outlined
in (a) above may not meet the requirements of the statute, it asks

the contractor to develop a plan to provide health care for the people
of Bikini, Enewetak, Rongelap, Utirik, Likiep, Mejit, Ailuk, Wotho,

Wotje, Ujae, and Lae atolls, with respect to any injury, illness, or

condition that may be the result, directly or indirectly, of the nuclear
weapons testing program. The contractor will be required to provide
cost estimates for this plan.

(e) To the extent relevant to each of the foregoing plans,
the Contractor should provide information with respect to the following:

(1)

Rongelap and Utirik peoples.

What will be required

by way of staff, facilities, transportation, communications, equipment,
etc., to provide for the continuance of special medical screening and
care of the exposed persons and expansion of this special program to
provide comprehensive health care for all inhabitants of Rongelap and
Utirik. To the extent appropriate, alternative methods of providing

this specialized care, plus comprehensive health care, should be presented,

along with estimated annual costs.

and Off-Atoll residents.
(2)

Enewetak.

(3)

Bikini.

The plan mst provide for On-Atoll

What will be required by way of staff,

facilities, transportation, communications, equipment, etc., to provide
for radiological screening of the people of Enewetak in their new
communities on Enewetak Atoll and to provide also a comprehensive health
care program for them. To the extent appropriate, alternative methods
of providing this specialized radioiogical screening and comprehensive
health care should be presented, along with estimated annual costs.
What will be required by way of staff,

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for radiological screening of the people of Bikini if they return to

part of the Bikini Atoll?

What wild be required to provide a comprehensive

health care program for the Bixinians in the various locations in which
they may reside in the foreseeable future. <o the extent appropriate,

alternative methods of providing thie specialized radiological screening
and comprehensive health care should be presented, along with estimated

annual costs.

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facilities, transportation, communications, equipment, etc., to provide

(4)

Government of the Marshall Islands. The constitution of the Marshall
Islands “recognizes the right of the people to health care, education,
and legal services and the obligation to take evexy step reasonable and

necessary to provide these services".
of the Marshall Islands.)

(Section 15, Art. 1. Constitution

The Government of the Marshall Islands has a

Ministry of Health and an on-going program of health care.

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