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Department of Energy
Washington, D.C. 20545
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Mr. John E. DeYoung
Territorial and International Affairs
U.S. Department of the Interior
Washington, D.C.
20240
Dear Mr. DeYoung:
During the meeting of December 10, 1980, the question was asked what
additional costs might be involved if the proposed program plan for
education and information pertaining to nuclear radiation and its
effects were to be expanded from the peoples identified in Public Law
96-205 to include all of the inhabited atolls in the Marshall Islands.
Mrs. Ruth Clusen, Assistant Secretary for Environment, indicated that
we would provide this information.
The staff at the Pacific Northwest Laboratory of Battelle Memorial
Institute, who prepared the original program plan at our request,
have provided the following cost estimates:
1. As presented in the submitted plan, the cost of the program for
the first three years was estimated to be $2,200,000 for the peoples
of Enewetak, Bikini, Rongelap and Utirik.
You may recall that the
plan proposed that 3 persons from the populations of each of these
atolls, plus 4 other persons, be trained in Majuro and in the United
States prior to conducting education/information meetings with the
peoples of the 4 atolls.
2.
If the program is expanded to include all inhabited atolis the
preliminary estimated additional cost is $3,600,000, for a total 3
year estimated cost of $5,800,000.
This assumes that 3 trainees are
selected from each of the inhabited atolls in the Marshall Islands and
trained as indicated in the program plan.
3.
If it were feasible for the original 16 trainees, primarily from
Enewetak, Bikini, Rongelap and Utirik, to present the education/
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information program to the peoples of all of the other inhabited atolls
in the Marshall Islands, the preliminary estimated additional cost is
. $2,100,000, for a total 3 year estimated cost of $4,300,000.
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