veciolozical risxs of returninz. We have not been provided with inat intormation in a form that we can understand. 89. As we mentioned in paragraph 65, supra, some members of our cemmunity are presently residing on Bikini Island, Bikini Atoll. In light of the August 1975 reports, $5 79 and 80, supra, recommending against permanent vesidences on Bikini Island, those Bikinians now living there must receive special consideration and attention. 90. Some of our people, approximately 30, went to Bikini about 1969 to work in the resettlement program. By 1972, three families who were especially anxzious to go back were permitted to resettle on Bikini Island by the defendants. Since 1972. there have been a total of approximately 75 of our people, men, women ‘and. children, Baws Nae? living on the same Bikini Island which the defendants rede now say shouldnot be used for permanent residences. 4a o ay There also" gee are some of us who have lived on Bikini Island during this ‘period . ad but who have subsequently moved to other islands or atolls in ‘the Marshall Islands. The National Environmental Policy Act 91. The resettlement of Bikini Atoll is an ongoing major federal action significantly affecting the quality of the human environment. The manner in which the program is conducted will have significant ffects on our health and safecy and, perhaps, our very lives. The manner in which the program is conducted will also have signif <i effects on the health, safety and, perhaps, lives of generations of Bikinians as yet unborn. In addition, the manner in which ‘the . a program is conducted will have a significant effect upon our cultural fo tL fo mR aesthetic values, upon our relative land rights among‘themselves, n2ozpon our social structure and living patterns. -27-