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We must empnasize our continued belief that proper administrative
accountability procedures require that program responsibilities and fiscal

responsibility should be combined within the same management structure.

This

would eliminate potential operational and budgetary confusion, delays and
misunderstandings.

If funding responsibilities are not combined into the

administering agency, it should be clearly stated that the funding agency
serves merely as a financial conduit for the administering agency.

If,

alternatively, oversight and accountability responsibility is intended to be

exercised by the funding agency, such responsibilities also should clearly
be stated.

The Department of the Interior letter makes no reference to the raciclogics! "xrttoring and dose assessments, and the education/information program called for in
the statute.

We would propose that these activities also be terminated after a

specified interval if appropriate.

If radiological surveys and dose assessments

are continued over a reasonable period of time following residence on an island or

from the present time, whichever is longer, and the surveys and dose
assessments are consistent with previous survey data and dose assessments,
then continuation of the radiolocical surveys and dose assessments would
not be justified.

The following are specific comments on the draft letter from the Department of

the Interior to the Speaker of the House:
Pace 1, Paragraph 3:

The number of nuclear weapons tests at Enewetak Atoll was

43; the number at Bikini Atoll was 23.

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