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LW“After the relatively heavy fallout on theMars?
Islands Maréh as 1954, 82 inhabitants were evaciatedtf
Kova jatetn and to Bjit where they are now living,
been ‘public statements,concurred’ inby the“atomic ‘mer
Commission, Department of Interior and the Department o1
to the effect that these People will be returtied, to the!
Island of Rongelap as soon as health, considerations Pern
Such.aStatement was submitted, ‘bo, the.TehSession ‘of ‘th
Trusteeship Council subcommittee of Petitions, Yiareh eT,
by Mr.‘Vernon,-D._MeKay, ‘Special Representative of “the” Ae
ministering “Authorities, for ‘the Trust Territory”‘of the 7
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2. Several radiological surveys of the Marshall Is
especially Rongelap Atoll, have been made during the pas
and one-half years. The latest survey (July 23-“2h; “1956
indicates a presence of a residual contamination on ‘the.
of Rongelap, but at a level that is acceptable from a jhe
point of view,
both for the potential external gamma
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exposure and the strontium-90 content in ‘the food supply
the possible exception of land crabs.
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3. Therefore, the position of the Atomic Mmergy Cc
is that the Rongelapese could be returned to their home
2S soon as rehabilitation procedures on the Island of Rc
are completed, with the advice that land crabs not be ea
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