that the U.S. Navy temporarily evacuated the people of Ujelang
by taking the entire community to sea during a test operation.
Today approximately 500 people make up the Ujelang-Enewetak
comuunity with another 40 or so Ujelangese living on Ebeye or
Majuro.
With the start of the cleanup and rehabilitation program of
Enewetak Atoll in 1976, a small revolving community of some 60
Ujelangese were permitted to live on Japtan Island in the southern
part of Enewetak Atoll.

Most of the members of the Ujelang

community have thus lived for at least a six month period on
Japtan Island during the timespan of 1976-1980.

In April 1980,

the Japtan community was expanded to 140 individuals.

The new

communities of Enewetak and Medrem Island in the southern part of
Enewetak Atoll as of July 1980 had not yet been opened.

Most of

the remaining population on Ujelang is expected to return to
Enewetak and Medren within the coming year.

Ujelang Atoll, though,

will continue to be used as a source of fresh food supply and will
be in continual use for the next 8-10 years by the Enewetak people
either by having an ovtrest comeunily there or a revolving
community.

Health care for the people of Enewetak, accordingly,

must be provided at Ujelang as well as Enewetak.

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The Department of Energy in the spring of 1980 carried out a
“whole body" count on the entire Ujelang group prior to the
‘planned return to the southern parts of Enewetak Atoll.

No basic

medical survey of the Enewetak group has as yet been carried out. Att) (7
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