889 STATEMENT OF HIGH COMMISSIONER ADRIAN P. WINKEL BEFORE THE INTERIOR AND RELATED AGENCIES SUBCOMMITTEE, COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS, HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, CONCERNING RESETTLEMENT OF THE PEOPLE OF BIKINI, MAY 22, 1978 ntinues -oduced cuat the rat it Mr. Chairman, Members of the Committee: is -u data. The preceding statements of Mrs. Van Cleve and the de have presentation of the Department of Energy clearly demonstrate weed to he same the dilemma we face in dealing with the immediate and longer- ; danger magni- - poteh- range futures of the people now living on Bikini Island. Until last week, it had been a reasonable presumption based on predictions by the Department of Energy that Eneu in the Bikini Atoll would be a satisfactory place to which om off the Bikini people could be moved in the immediate short-run ~ay the period and -o about isn't it? that it would also serve as a permanent location for the bulk of the larger group still on Kili. We now know that this is not the case. We thus have the necessity of a temporary move to a4 location that most likely will not be the permanent home for these people. laitist ies “ee much At this pointe let me say that there are no uninhabited islands or atolls on which these people might make a permanent settlement. Uninhabited islands in the Marshalls are uninhabited because they are incapable of sustaining human life to any extent, particularly the numbers of people we are on Kih ussioner made a fit will i talking about. Pan ssnt its : 7J H i V ry im