Leo M. Krulitz Octobere 30, Page Two 1979 . At our request, architect Carlton Hawpe (who speaks Marshallese and English) was engaged by Holmes & Narver and Holmes 6& Narver was engaced to assist in the drafting of the master plan. It went very well. In November 1973, the plan was completed. It included two major settlements: one at Enewetak island in the south and the other at Enjebi. Enjebi was included because that is what the people wanted and because no one in the government even suggested that Enjebi could not be included. In September 1974, when General Warren D. Johnson, then DNA director, came to Enewetak atoll to meet with the people and present the draft environmental impact statement, the people were informed for the first time that the Atomic Energy Commission recommended against the resettlement of Enjebi and would oppose the funding of the entire program if Enjebi were included. General Johnson was accompanied by high level representatives of the Atomic Energy Commission, the Department of the Interior, the Environmental Protection Agency and the Trust Territory Government. It was clear to all of us, that is to the people of Enewetak and their counsel, that we had no real choice. It was a matter of acceding to the AEC "recommendation" and revising the Master Plan to cut Enjebi out, or having no cleanup and resettlement program at all. EIS, Yol. I §?7. The people of Enewetak returned to Ujelang to revise the Master Plan, to move everyone to residences in the southern islands of Enewetak, Medren and Japtan. That was not an easy accomodation to achieve, even though they are a remarkably cohensive and cooperative group, but it worked Out and the revised Master Plan of March 1975 excluded Enjebi. EIS, Vol. II, Tab D. I want to make it very clear that the people of Enewetak never did agree to forego the resettlement of Enjebi. They acceded to it at the time because they had no real choice. To be sure, the "Case 3", which excluded Enjebi, was presented as a "recommendation." See draft EIS §5.4.3. But the AEC had made up its mind unilaterally, in advance, and without the support of the AEC, the government's radiation experts, prospects for funding of the program were scant if not nonexistent.