leh i 2 vem sending. weeny ree ae wet las we : - ae : veer eaesea-setaniberecmiarae tie CE A me ood . tare on aa tet: ee or A ad oS = aa * aes OeFU 7 t a “Cea 5 fx Ry Ss ~ . Nie ee seb et mer eae eee SET : ote sy ee ~ ~ . BM so eotisgYe Sol ee. Jpyechae ee - bf/27/F 0? Ce: Ean Ma PUBLIC)LAW W 96-205 (HLR. 3756];. March12,“1980 eT rer | AUTHORIZATION APPROPRIATIONS—INSULAR" _AREAS OF THE UNITED STATES| mo a For Legislatic'e- History of Act,scep.467 - aRd : ony mo uo nee et oe , - 7Re Act to authorize appropriations for certain _ States, and for other purposes. -_ insular areas of the . United United States Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States ofAmerica in i Congress assembled, . authorization. : TITLE [TRUST TERRITORY OF THE PACIFIC ISLANDS. insular areas. Appropriation 48 USC 168i note. Sec. 101. Section 2 of the Act of June 30, 1954 (68 Stat. 330), is amended by inserting after “for fiscal year 1980, $112,000,000,” the following: “for fiscal years after fiscal year 1980, such sums as may be necessary, including, but not limited to, sums needed for completion of the capital improvement program, for a basic communications system, and fora feasibility study and construction of ahydroelectric project on Ponape;”; ~ese ~ i i EErei sp. Oe An ia | Sec. 102. The Act entitled “An ‘Act to authorize certain appropri- ations for the territories of the United States, to amend certain Acts relating thereto, and for other purposes” (91 Stat. 1159; Public Law, Radiation exposure, compensation, research, and medical care. 48 USC 1681 note. 95-134)is amended byInsertingafter section 105, the following new ' section: -..3- ; ve! “SEC. 106. (a) In addition to ‘any other. payments ‘or “benefits provided by law ‘to compensateinhabitants of the atolls of Bikini,. Enewetak, Rongelap, and Utirik, in the Marshall Islands, for radi-ation exposure or other losses sustained by them as a result of the United States nuclear weapons testing program at or neartheir atolls ' during the period 1946 to 1938, the Secretary of the Interior (hereinafter in this section referred to as the ‘Secretary’) shall provide for the people of the atolls of Bikini, Enewetak, Rongelap, and Utirik and for the people of such other atolls as may be found to be or to have been exposed to radiation from the nuclear weapons testing program, a program of medical care and treatment and environmental research and monitoringfor anv injury,illness, or condition which may be the result directly or indirectly of such nuclear weapons testing program. The program shall be implemented according to a plan developed by the Secretary in consultation with the Secretaries of Defense, Energy, and Health, Education, and Welfare and with the direct involvementof representatives from the people cf each of the affected atolls and from the government of the Marshal) islands. The plan shall set forth, as appropriate to the situation, condition, and needs of the individual atollpeoples: “(1) an integrated, comprehensive health care program includ- ing primary, secondary, and tertiary care with special emphasis X upon the biological effects of ionizing radiation; “(2) a schedule for the periodic comprehensive survey and analysis of the radiological status of the atclls to and at appropriate intervals, but not Tess frequently than once every five years, the development of an’ updated radiation dose assessment, | together with an estimate of the risks associated with the . predicted human exposure, foreach suchatoll;and 94 STAT. 84 ~ :