RESETTLEMENT OF PEOPLE 1970 continued DECEMBER Kwajalein: A new agreement is signed by Mid-Corridor landowners and the U.S. providing $420,000 per year (approximately $285 per person, based on 1,470 people) to the people dis- placed by the missile tests. The agreement has a five year review clause. . 1971 Bikini: The rehabilitation program is still proceeding at a snail's pace. With erratic shipping and no air service, construction and agricultural) supplies arrive late. The replanting of coconuts at Bikini and Eneu Islands is finally completed. of rice, flour, sugar, and canned meat for over two weeks. A typhoon in June destroyed the breadfruit crop. <A ship which arrived earlier brought them a large check for their trust fund interest payment, but had no food or goods which they could buy with it. OCTOBER Bikini: The AEC announces that coconut crabs can be eaten only in limited numbers because they are radioactive. As it grows, the crabs eat their shells, which contain radioactive strontium 90, and concentrate high levels of radiation. Bikini: Because of information on the radiological contamination of Bikini supplied by the AEC, the Kili council votes not to returmthe entire community to Bikini at this time, but says it will not prevent individuals from returning. Bikini: Three Bikini families move back to Bikini. They move into newly constructed houses on Bikini Island along with about 50 Marshallese workers involved in construction and maintenance of the buildings. 1973 OCTOBER Enewetak: The results of DECEMBER Ujelang: Not placated by the 1969 Trust Fund "compensation," the Ujelang people declare their intention with a notice in the Marshall Islands newspaper: ‘We, the representatives of the displaced people of Enewetak are making public notice of our intent to operation. - Enewetak: Runit Island in eastern Enewetak Atoll, the site of 18 nuclear tests, is quarantined. High concentrations of plutonium on this island return to our island o% Enewetak before mean habitation will not be possible for 240,000 years. 1972 FEBRUARY Ujelang: American of fi- Kwajalein: The Ebeye population is officially estimated at 5,263 people the end of 1972." cilals are notified that unless the En- ewetak people are granted permission to return home, they will institute legal action. AUGUST 30 Ujelang: A supply ship ar- rives to find the people have been out 90026 | ——t. 23 living on 66 acres. About 600 Marshallese are employed by the missile range, 200 work as domestics on Kwaj- alein and 139 others are employed by the Trust Territory on Ebeye. (continued on page 25) ~~ re —aip tion survey are published by the AEC as the 3-volume Enewetak Radiological Survey. This study provides a frame- work for the proposed nuclear cleanup Oe ee eecere ENEWETAK RADIOLOGICAL CLEANUP CREW TAKING SOIL SAMPLES ON RUNIT ISLAND Defense Nuclear Agency Photo a highly sophisticated aerial radia-