FIFTH CONCRESS OF HICRONESTA
FIRST REGULAR SESSION, 1973
HOUSE JOIN’ RESOLUTION HO. 73
A HOUSE JOINT RESOLUTION
Extending the life of the Special Joint Committee Concerning
Rongelap and Utirik Atolls.
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WiEREAS, under Public Law No. 4C-33 as enacted by the Second
Regular Session of the Fourth Congress of iiicronesia a Special
Joint Committee Concerning Rongelap and Utirik Atolls was created
and given the mandate, among other things, to investigate the
vesults of {rradiation on the people of Rongelap and Utirik Atolls
in the Marshall Islands District; and
WHEREAS, the said Special Joint Committee Concerning Rongzlap
and Utirik Atolls submitted to this First Pegular Session of the
Fifth Congress of liicronesia a report containing its findings and
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recommending additional matters that this Congress should further
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davestizate; now, therefore,
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BE IT RESOLVED by the House of Representatives of the Fifth
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Congress of ificronesia, First Regular Session, 1973, the Senate
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concurring, that the life of the Special Joint Comittee Concerning
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Rongelap and Utirik Atolls as created by Public Law No. 4C-33 is
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hereby extended until March 30, 1975,
‘The said Special Committee
shall have the sane functions, duties, powers, and responsibilities
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as specified by Sections 3 and 4 of Public Law No, 4C-33; shall
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have the same Committee membership and composition; and shali, in
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addition, have powers and responsibilities to favestigate
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the question of couwpensation for property damage to the islands
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and atolls and peoples thereof, aud any other and related matters
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