RMI Nuclear Justice Documents

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Statutory Compensation to the People of Micronesia Relating to
Damages Tfacurred from Nuclear Testing
‘Act of August 22, 1964,-P.L. 88-854 (78 Stat. 598) provided $950,900
@s compassionate payment to the people of Rongelap for radiation

expesures sustained by them as a result of the 1954 Bravo shot.
This payment was for general suffering since in 1964 the late effects
of thyroid abnormalities had not yet appeared.

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n 1969 a $1,020,000 ex gratia payment was made to the pesple of
newetak to compensate them for hardship and suffering due to their

smoval from Enewetak Atoll in 1947.
It should be noted that this was
not a statutory act but was provided by transfer of funds from the
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Act of June 13, 1975, P.L. 94-34, Drovided for an ex gratia payment of
- £3 millien to the people of Bikini.
The Act provided that this payment
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94-367, Department of Defense Military Construction Appropriation.
1977, appropriated $20 million for cleanup of Enewetak Atoll.

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(91 Stat. 1159) authorized $12,400,000 for rehabilitation and

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of Enewetak Atoll. This Act also authorized certain funds
0 be used by the islands communities of Rongelap, Utirik and Bikini
Atolls as well as establishing a tabie of ex gratia payments for medical
Injuries to the people of Ronaelap and Utirik. The Act also provides
for medical care to the fallout victims of Rongelap and Utirik.

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P.L. 95-348, United States Insular Areas Appropriation Authorization of

1978, under the Bikini Resettlement section authorized an additional
$3,000,000 to be held in trust pursuant to the trust agreement
established by P.L. 94-34. This additional $3,000,000 was appropriated
in P.L: 95-467 and placed in the Bikini Trust Fund in 1978. P.L.
95-467 also appropriated $3,000,000 for Bikini resettlement purposes and
these funds have been used for the temporary rehabilitation of Kili
following the return of some 145 Bikinians to Kili and Ejit in August
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1978 from Bikini Island and for costs incurred in exploration of possible

temporary resettlement areas.

: U In 1956, $175,000 was paid to the people of Enewetak in a "Use Agreement”.
Of this amount, $150,000 was placed in a trust fund. At the same time,
$325,000 was given to the people of Bikini in a “Use Agreement” of which
$300,000 was placed in a trust fund. Funds for these "Use Agreements"

did not come from specific statutpry acts but from monies transferred to

the High Commissioner of the Trust Territory by the Department of the Navy.