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strong reiteration that Federal Radiation standards would be
foll~wed.

General Warren D. Johnson, then Director of DNA, was

a backup witness at this hearing and testified:

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.The Department of Defense is committed to clean
the island up to the standards established by ERDA,
and ERDA is committed to assure we have reached those

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standards, so this is a coordinated effort.

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words, we cannot move anybody back until ERDA says?

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“You have done what we have said has to be done.”

The Naster Plan for the Enewetak Rehabilitation and Resettlement Program that was submitted to your Committee for
funding in 1977 was developed around the radiation standard
stipulations set forth by the Department of Energy and by
Congress when it approved the cleanup funding. As noted
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ear~’er in this report, the Master Plan called only for the
rehabilitati~n

and resettlement of the three southern

islan~.s, Enewetak, Medran, and Japtan, and for the planting

of only

certain of the northern islands as well as the south-

ern islands.

Engebi Island was not to be used for the next
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35-50 yeal-s, i.e., until natural decay of strontiul~cesium
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elements in the soil had
The people of Enewetak agreed to these stipulations and had
a major role in the development

of the approved Master Plan.

Thus, in addition to the radiation risk elements still
unresolved,

resettlement of the Engebi people on Engebi

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