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the United States Goverament

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current

se das

to assure

residents

of

chat,

Bikini

Because Kili Island Has,

solely a
have

af

ne separctment

Interior will call upon

tu assist

among other

Island

untii

the

particularly the

thives,

continue

recent weeks,

if.

to

ve

undertaken

to

construct

permanent

significantly any of the existing Kili

facilities

facilicies.

....

been resarded as

temporary relocation site for the people of Bikini,

never

the medical

the Governments

there,

nor

to

improve

Tt is now known that

10.

Bikini

Ji.

an

12.

TsJanud,

3.

the circumstances,

14.

will choese to remain un Kili indefinitely, and the Gavernments will accord-

L5.

ingly undercake a program for the permanent rehabilitation of Kili.

Island will

the basis
in

of

the

not be fie for human habitation for decaden

the most

recent

Bikini Atoll,

scientific

will

information,

also be unavailable

the Cevernnents

understand

that

it

to come, and

appears

that

for settlement,

some of

the

Bikini

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16.

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ds not yet possible to develop a permanent relocation plan

1&.

for

19.

radiological survey that

20.

pleted no later than

21,

are available and evaluated, and when any remaining scientific

22.

necessary are also completed,

23.

eccur in

24.

the

people of

Bikini.

That

plan must

is now underway,

the early weeks of

completion of

the acrial/

and that is expected to be com-

1979.

When those survey results
tests found

it will be possible to identify safe

The Governments will

then,

Following full consultation

25.

with the people of Kili (including the current residents of Bikini Island

26.

who will by then have relocated there), plan in detail for the relocation

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28.

choice

29.

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the first months of 1979,

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await

choose

to move

relecatian

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sites,

affording

to

them a

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to

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