& FO5O,CGO wh heh,0 efter Teyal ommorsoa., te 9 wot Ror cerep Aeoll. > wea youid te= . the 4 Fach of the cf caponer epprovzimabety $10,006 a3 o lump sim, ft Phe Jo) poent received o& dessexr demsoc of exposure, vere Ros comp Since the 3964 poymenc, thyroid obnoc. Viti ce o ~ ra 1 exposed rnRonggapese 1 hg teh ee wd 25 operetionc foxy chy rold rorevi Ieswemlea alse aprecered in @ lQ-veay ole bo, vho tlad beon expdred an a ondeyear-olgd eht. This yourg waa dled tn 2OYh dy th Wetlonew. Concer Inubitule. Glandcal Center, Bethesda 1 Leusemiu. heesod@ Tor acute nye lar genoua wenby-nine of ve of Ob have developed thyroid abnarralitics. Additionally, in the past wvo years sin conses of Lbyvoid si nocnelities heve appeared in tha Ubirik In 1972 the Congress of Miceoneane ercuted a Spociab delat Rongelhap end UbAnik AUGLAL and one of the Commtiee Comettee Conceming In idey 1975 the Chademad of the Opeehab vimimt Committe mewhers ich in Washington, ).C.. with United Stutes Senubors and Congressmen about a requast for addicionnl exposed oersons or theiy gcurvivers. compensetion te the This inebaded on “inearvechido poy” of S1,G20 each to 157 people of Ubtirik or theixy survinors, veyucnts te the mother ond father of the Marshallese boy who dled of cewio Anulomie. in Loy * nee og . . n, aad payment of 925,000 each pox person per thyroid omeration, past ond future. A proposed bill ‘for additional compensation was prepared by the - Depertrent of Che Interior and hus been sibmitted to the Office of MNonegerer* and Budget for clearance and transmittal to the United Sintesy Congresa. Preliminary conferences with Congressional imambexrs en the part of Interior officials and Congress of Micronenia mawbexrs have indieated that the epproprinte United States Congress Commitefeed WILL eive a sympathetic hearing to this proposal, ! ae