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--the method of disposal if the copra is found to be
‘unacceptably contaminated with radioactive elements,
and
--compensation for any such loss.
Need for guarantees that livinq ?attern
restrictions will be effectively enforced
Several restrictions regarding living patterns, the growing of foodstuffs; food gathering, .etc., were proposed to and accepted by the
people “of Enewetak.

(See Chapter 2.)

Implied in returning the people to

their home atoll is the assumption that such restrictions will be
effectively enforced.

Although DOI through TTPI is responsible for

enforcing such advisory controls, this arrangement is temporary since
. the United States expects to soon end the Trust Agreement.

If

restrictions are not effectively enforced, the people of Enewetak could
receive excessive doses of radioactive elements as aid some of the people
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who returned to Bikini Island.
The United States does not

plan to clean up all the islands of

Enewetak Atoll to the point where no restrictions would have to be
imposed.

Therefore, it is imperative that provision be made for

enforcing living-pattern restrictions after the Trust Agreement is
ended.
Need for aareement on follow-up
radiological surveys and monitoring
the health of the resettles pecple
and the radioactivity in the environment
ERDA (now DOE) assumed responsibility, including funding,
for future periodic follow-up radiological surveys of Enewetak Atoll
-and for periodically monitoring the health status of the rese~tled people.
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