completed within a six-month period after funds are made available. Re- development costs are currently estimated to total about $2,881,800 over a five-year period. An additional sum is required to provide improvements to the island of Kili and to Ujelang Atoll where the former Eniwetok people were moved. The bulk of the redevelopment expense is encountered in the first year of new construction. For program planning purposes the costs have been allocated to cight major categories: Atoll cleanup... Transportation. . Planning. 2. 6 2 6 Replanting. 2... ..... 4... Grove Maintenance ....... Construction. . Administration. Resettlement. . . 1... 1. ew we we 1 8 0 we we we 6 2 ee ee ew we ww 1. - 6. 6 . 2... 2... 6 ee $1,200,000° 100,000 15,009 177,000 112,000 2 ew ee eee 815,000 ...5 4.5468. 245,000 eee ee ee217,800 $2,881,800 Because the Bikini people will have to continue to live for the next several “years-otKili and because there is some probability--that some of them will elect to remain on Kili rather than relocate themselves on Bikini, some improvements to housing, community facilities, and agricultural resources are in order for that island. These costs are currently estimated at approximately $100,000. Similarly, the plight of the former Eniwetok people, who have been relocated on Ujelang, requires attention. These people were removed from Eniwetok shortly after the removal of the people from Bikini. The Eniwetok people were resettled on the much smaller Ujelang Atoll. The Defense Department has concluded that natidnal security requirements for Eniwetok are such that return of these people is not foresceable. The Ujelangese are in urgent need of improved housing, community facilities, and agricultural resources, all of which are today beyond their means. Their near desperate situation is highlighted by the impending end of the Bikini odyssey. Improve- ments to the Ujelang community are currently estimated to require $80,000. The over~all resettlement program for Bikini, including clearing, redevelopment over a five-year period, and essential improvements to the Kili and Ujelang communities, is estimated on the basis of current information to amount to approximately $3,000,000, phased over a six-vear period. An alternative is to let a few islanders return and reestablish residence on Bikini in its present condition. This is rejected because of the moral responsibility as well as the political, sociological and economic need to rehabilitate the islanders. Survival would be difficult and the redevelopment of Bikini, without support of modern equipment and methods, would be a painfully stow process coverings penerations. Such appro wh would be ineonsistent with the poal of assisting the Bikinfans to bulld a new and model community. tyre? ~ 4 4 wsdl . 4 ! -3-