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and disfiguration, mental distress, and anguish or suffering-including the fear of returning and staying on Rongelap and Utirik.
_In terms of property damage, consideration must be given to temporary
or permanent damage to real property, damages to trees, crops, fish,
etc; loss of use of property (including the atolls of Rongelap and
Utirik), and loss of profits due to loss of use of real or personal
property.
The Committee holds that the United States Government was nefligent
and that this negligence resulted in the people being exposed
active fallout and
that
the fallout was
to radio-
the proximate or sole cause of
the injuries to the people of Rongelap and Utirik and to their properties.
Furthermore, the Committee notes that additional tests wore carried
out after the people were returned and
that
they were further exposed
additional radiation which may have aggravated
to
their condition.
Compensation
The Committee thus recommends
the following kinds and amounts of con-
pensation.
For the death of
,
the Committee recommends
that
the
amounts of $590,909 be paid each to his real mother and father and that
.
this money be disposed of in accordance with their wishes.
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For those people who have had
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induced disease,
thyroid operations because of radiiation-
the Committee recommends that the sum of $25,009 each be
paid to the persons affected.
For the people of Utirik who were displaced from their island for three
months,
the Committee recommends the payment of $1,900 each as an "incon-
venlence payment’ to supplement the amount of $116 offered by the Atomic
Energy Commission.
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