JURISDICTION AND VENUE 2, The Court has jurisdiction of this action under the national Environmental Policy Act, 42 U.S.C. §§4321 et seg.; the Trusteeshio Agreement for the Former Japanese Mandated Islands, ol Scat. 3301, T.I.A.S. No. and 28 U.S.C. §2201. 1665; 28 U.S.C. §1331; 28 U.S.C. §1361; The matter in controversy exceeds the value or ten thousand dollars, exclusive of interest and costs. is properly laid in in this district under 28 U.S.C. Venue §1391. PARTIES 3. All of us, the Plaintiffs, evritory of the Pacific Islands are citizens of the Trust (also known as Micronesia) are residents of the Marshall Islands District. furthermore, and All of us, were residents of Bikini Atoll at the time of that atoll's evacuation in 1946 prior to Operation Crossroads, the first of the American atomic tests in the Pacific, or are direct descendants of such residents. a. Plaintiff Bikini Council is the governing body of the Bikini community. Membership in the Council is determined in accordance with our custom and tradition. b. Plaintiff Lore Kessibuki is a citizen of the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands, a member of the Bikini community, Oo fu nd is Magistrate of our community. executive official of our community. born on Bikini Atoll, As such, he is the highest Plaintiff Kessibuki was in the Marshall Islands, in 1910. He was a residenc of Bikini Atoll until his relocation therefrom in 1946 prior to the Operation Crossroads nuclear tests. on Kili Island in the Marshall Islands. He now lives