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News Story
January 22, 1969
BININI CLEAN-UP TO START SOON
Saipan (MNS)--U.S. Atomic Energy Commission and Department
nto action to get the Bikini renabdilitation
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of Defense have jumped
moving as quickly as possible.
Col. Jonn Schott of the AEC
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visited Saipan Tuesdzy, January 21, to arrange transportation for
@n cisnat-man survey team to begin clearing the Eneu Island ai stris
on Bikini Atoll.
Unfortunately, the Trust Territory ships in the
Marshalls are now tied up with typhoon relief efforts.
Other
possible means of transportation are being explored.
According to Daputy High Commissioner Martin FeP. Mangan
Mangan, the
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' Atomic Energy Commissioner has several hundred thousand dollars
which must be spent before the end of fiscal year 1969 or before
July 1, 1969,
The total of AEC and Defense Department funds
available at this time is understood to be in the vicinity of
$600,CCO,
The cost of cleaning out the dangerous structures,
debris and radioactive iron is estimated by the AEC's contractor,
Homes and Narver, to be $1,200,000.
will cost about $3,200,000.
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The entire return to Bikini
Former President Johnson requested
$1.7 million in his budeet message last week, but the fact that.
other money is now available will mean Bikini rehabilitation can
start at least six months earlier than previously planned.
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One of the first jobs to be done on Bikini is to cleer
400 feet of the Eneu airstrip so that short-takeoff-and-landing
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