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December 15, 1980

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The Honorable Wallace O. Green
Assistant Secretary Designate
Territory and International Affairs

United States Department of Interior
Office of the Secretary
Washington, D.C.
20240

Re:

P.L.

Dear Mr.

96-205/RFP #14-01-0001-80-R-75
Green:

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Our office, along with several other law offices, have joined

together to represent the interests of various groups of people

from the Marshall Islands.

Our clients include people from

atolls which were specifically named in P.L. 96-205 as well as
people from other atolls which were affected by the atomic testing in the Marshall Islands.
We represent people from the atolls
of Rongelap, Utirik, Enewetak and several of the other atolls.
We appeared at the hearing recently held by the Department of
the Interior in Washington, D.C., relative to the plans which
had been prepared pursuant to the captioned RFP.
We questioned

the plans at that time.

The Chairperson of the meeting, Mrs.

VanCleve, was kind enough to grant us permission to present

additional materials to you for your consideration in preparing

your report to Congress pursuant to the

statutes.

Enclosed herewith you will find a document which recommends
additions to the health care proposal submitted by Loma Linda
University.
We would appreciate your receiving this document

along with this letter as the additional documents which fall
within the permission granted.
We find the three reports to be contradictory.

The report re-

lative to an education program, and the report relative to
future monitoring, are restrictive in their recommendations
solely to the specifically named atolis.
The report relative

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