Marshall Islands consists of field trip ships operated by the Division of Transportation of the Trust Territory Government or privately operated ships, subject to the regulatory authority of the Trust Territory Government. During the past several years approximately 75 people, most of them members of the Bikini community, have taken up permanent residence in some of the 40 concrete houses constructed on Bikini Island, Bikini Atoll. The field trip ships and other ships subject to Trust Territory Government regulations ‘continue to provide a means of access to Bikini Atoll. Statements of representatives of the United States Atomic Energy Cormission (AEC) and United States Energy Research and Development Administration CERDA) have given the People of Bikini a basis to believe returm to Bikini Atoll is a safe thing for them to do. In other words, ’ Defendants have collectively acted to create a presently existing situation in which some members of the Bikini People may go to Bikini for the purpose of permanent residence there. BEST AVAILABLE COPY. Completion of a valid radiological survey of Bikini Atoll may show that permanent residence in the Atoll is not acceptable on any practical basis, or completion of such a survey may show that residence on Bikini Atoll must ‘be made subject to conditions not presently kmown. Thus, any person who now goes to Bikini may face a need for further relocation upon completion of a radiological survey. Irreparable injury may ensue from either the need for further relocation or from radiation exposure incurred while at Bikini Island, or both. DOE ARCHIVES To prevent such irreparable injury, this Court