The Honorable Wallace O. Page 2 Green to the health plan almost entirely ignores the separate problems of those named atolls and the other atolls which were radiated by the testing. Although the law specifically requires a program be developed for monitoring the continuing radioactive affects on the named atolls, "and other affected atolls", the report restricts itself solely to the named atolls. Such a system is self-defeating. The only studies conducted so far indicate that all of the Northern Marshall Islands thus far tested show lasting radia- tion affects. For example, the Northern Marshall Islands Aerial Radiation Survey of November and December of 1978 found all of the atolls surveyed to be radioactive. Only by monitoring the radioactive affects upon all of the atolls could the scope of the monitoring plan required by the law be determined. No attempt was made to do such monitoring, nor was any attempt even made to devise a program of such monitoring. Likewise, the educational program is similarly lacking. Although the peoples of the named atolls are scattered amongst all of the Marshall Islands, the educational program was aimed solely at the named atolls. Obviously the purpose of an educational program is to tell the affected people the facts so that they can make intelligent informed determinations as to their future, and also can be warned about possible signs and symptoms which would permit early detection of illness. to the named atolls, If the procram is restricteéc it fails to reach those who have been scat- tered to the other atolls. The medical and health care proposal, on the other hand, almost completely ignores the affects of the testing even upon those persons of the named atolls, and in its zeal to develop a health care plan for all of the Marshall Islands, does not propose any program to further one of the major aims of P.L. 96-205, the discovery and treatment of those problems caused by the nuclear contamination. In this regard it does almost the same as the Other two studies, it ignores special problems caused by the contamination, whereas at least the other two studies recognize problems exist. We represent people who have already had surgical intervention for thyroid problems, not only from the named atolls, but from Wotje, Ailuk, Maloelap, Likiep, Mejit, Ailinglaplap, Namu, Woto, Majuro, Jaluit and Kwajalein amongst others. Our health care authorities inform us that one thyroid removal amongst a population of the size of the Marshall's might be explainable, two would be an epidemic, and the dozens which we have observed there can be explained by nothing other