The goal is to provide .an attractive, healthful, liveable community fully and adequately meeting the needs of the people of the atoll -- one which can serve as a model for community development in other Pacific islands. The Trust Territory Government, working with the Bikini people, is now completing planning and prototype housing designs and preparing plans for other facilities in fiscal year 1969. It is also planning to establish a small administrative unit on Bikini in fiscal year 1969 to protect existing assets and facilities and to place the atoll under adequate police and administrative control. These efforts can be accomplished by the Trust Territory with funds currently available. The overall resettlement plan is phased over a six-year period begin- ning in fiscal year 1970 when clearing of the atoll of test related debris will have been completed. The planting program for coconuts and other crops is expected to require two years, fiscal years 1970 and 1971. The major element will be the planting of approximately 100,000 coconut seedlings in cleared strips across the main islands of Bikini and Enyu. Leaving some intervening strips of vegetation will reduce erosion of the topsoil and provide protection from wind and salt spray far the seedlings. Over the two years replanting costs are estimated to amount to approximately $177,000. Grove maintenance will begin in fiscal year 1971 and will spread over the subsequent four years. It will consist of brushing-out the cleared planting strips, fertilization and care of the seedlings, and, as the newlyplanted trees grow, the progressive clearing of the intervening strips of scrub vegetation. Over the five-year period of fiscal year 1971 through 1975, grove maintenance costs are currently estimated to total approximately $112,000. Construction costs for village facilities and for housing for the returned Bikinians are estimated to total $815,000 for fiscal year 1970 through 1975. The bulk of the construction will be done at the outset of the resettlement program with, as noted above, community facilities and housing for about 30 families. Subsequent construction costs contemplate housing at the rate of about six units a year, with an addition to the school being built in 1973 when the school-age population will overcrowd the facility first built. Administrative and resettlement costs, the latter including transportation to and from Kili and a feeding subsidy for the returned people, are estimated 1 4 ' _ eee to amount to approximately $463,000 over the six-year period.