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to live only on Eneu, eat no food at all from Bikini, and \
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aintain” a diet consisting of approximately 50% local food
from Eneu and 50% imported food. The people have also in-+

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dicated that they would be willing to accept certain measure
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to insure that they do not violate DOE restrictions.

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such measure should probably be the destruction of the 40
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homes on Bikini Island,which could prove to be an attractive
nuisance”. Another possible measure might be the destruction of
the coconut trees on Bikini Island, although a decision on
this action should be postponed until there is an opportunity
to observe whether DOE restrictions are being followed.
An essential element of an Eneu resettlement program

will be the.establishment of a regular shipping schedule

to bring imported food to Eneu.

At a Congressional hearing

in Juner 1978, when people were still living on Bikini Island?
witnesses testified that although monthly trips were scheduled
to take food to Bikini, ships called on Bikini sporadically .</”
because the Trust Territory Government did not have enough
ships available to service Bikini on a monthly basis.
Jendrik Leviticus, who attended the hearing representing the
people then living on Bikini, stated that
- ‘ships...apparently did not arrive on anything approaching a monthly basis, and that
caused the Bikinians to go into the interior
:. parts of the island and eat the breadfruit,
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