Section 1 of the proposed bill is intended to eliminate those difficulties. The pertinent section would be amended to achieve the following principal results: 1. Geographical Coverage. Section 102 as it stands has received from the interested parties and Federal agencies a variety of interpretations. One non-Federal party contends that the statute and the foreseen program of comprehensive medical care must extend to all of the people of the Marshall Islands, on the ground that all islands and atolls in the Marshall Islands have received at least some radioactive fallout as a result of the nuclear testing program. It seems to us probable that the Congress did not intend this result. The bulk of the Marshalls sustained no fallout exceeding that experienced by the rest of the world's population. The report submitted to the Congress on January 7, 1981, indicates that Interior's contractor for the medical plan concluded that a program covering all of the Marshalls would cost $10.9 million the first year, and $77 million for the first five-year period. In addition to this large expense, such a program would, further, raise fundamental questions of fairness. It would seem inequitable for the United States to provide full medical care for all of the people of the Marshalls, most of whom have suffered from no more than the same fallout as have the people elsewhere in the Trust Territory as well as elsewhere throughout the world, and not provide the same program for other entities of the Trust Territory, i.e., the Federated States of Micronesia and the Republic of Palau. Furthernge, had Congress intended application to all of the Marshalls, it could have easily and clearly said so in the statute. A further difficulty with respect to geographic coverage in section 102 arises from the statute's reference to “other atolls." The statute states that the beneficiaries of the program are to be "the people of the atolls of Bikini, Enewetak, Rongelap, and Utirik and...the people of such other atolls as may be found to be or to have been exposed to radiation from the nuclear weapons testing program." The “other atolls" phrase was added to give the administering agency flexibility to expand the program, in the event that it is learned that other atolls were also affected by the testing program. Determining which “other atolls," if any, have been affected by exposure to radiation from the testing program would be an extraordinarily complex task. It could not be accomplished without the expenditure of many millions of dollars, nor, given the uncertainties that continue to surround this mysterious subject, could it be accomplished to the satisfaction of all of the legitimately interested people. In order to develop and apply rational standards for making such determinations, extensive scientific studies would be necessary so as to establish the relationship between health effects and radiation exposure. These standards would then have to be applied to each of the "other atolls" in the Marshalls, a task complicated by the fact that radiation exposure occurred decades ago. Thus, the necessary cost of making rational determinations as to what other atolls should be included in the program would be disproprotionate to