anc Master Plan, together with related material in Marshallese,
as well as English.
IV.
ISCEDIATE EXAMINATION OF PERSONS WHO HAVE BEEN
PLACED AT RISK
"August 12, 1968 was the date of inception of the
Bikini Resettlemenr.
On that date President Lyncon B.
Johnson announced the availability of Bikini atoll for
return to the Bikini People.
Verified Complaint § 60.
Ina
press release on the same cate AEC deemed its own role in
the decision to initiate the Resettlement "greatly satisfying’.
The decisicn to initiate the Resettlement,
simul-
taneously announced by AEC and the President, was based on a
1967 radiation survey of Bikini atoll, performed by the AEC
and an evaluation
of the results of that surve by an Ad Hoc
Committee, most of whose members had active AEC ties at the
time they served on the Cozmmittee.
as a result of the 1967 survey and the 1968 report
of the Ad Hoc Committee,
the Bikini Resettrlenent was begun,
leading eventually to clean-up of debris and scrub vegetation
on the islands of Bikini and Eneu, replanting of Bikini and
Eneu with coconuts,
of Phase I Housing
pandanas,
and breadfruit end construction
(consisting of 40 houses)
Marshallese laborers,
cn Bikini Island.
including some merders of the
People of Bikini, were used for the work on Bikini Island.
After construction of the Phase I Housing,
several Bikini
families voluntariivy movec back to Bikini Islend, including
the family of
action.
one of the Plaintiffs in this
pest AVAILABLE COPY
DOE ARCHIVES
At present approximately 75 people live on Bikini
Island and perhaovs as mary as 100 to 150 people have been
placed at risk as a result of their presence on Bikini Island,
exposed to what are now known to be very high levels of
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