‘1 ‘1 DRAFT~ . In spite of extensive and well-intentioned efforts of the United States to cleanup, rehabilitate, and resettle Enewetak Atoll, the potential exists for legal and political difficulties for the United States. The issues include: loss of land, loss of land usage and loss of cash crops as a result of the testing program, and an absence of long-term agreeExpectation ments between the United States and the people of Enewetak. that the United States will soon end the Trust Agreement, coupled with the uncertainty of the future political status of the Marshall Islands, of which Enewetak Atoll is a part, further complicates matters. (See p. 15.) Significant radiological aspects of the clea~’}~portion of the Enewetak project are not being independently assessed”by organizations having no connection cr interest in the nuclear test program. (See p. 22.) “ The Enewetak Atoll cleanup, rehabilitation and resettlement project was preceded by a similar but less-comprehensive ”project at Bikini Atoll. Attention recently focused on the Bikini project when abnormal quantities of radioactive elements were detected in some of W These discoveries triggered a decision by Interior people living there. ~0 wuest”$ls from the Congress to again relocate the people”of.Bikini. mil~ion ~ (See P.S.) The people of Enewetak, displaced now for more than 30 years, suffered the physical hardship of living on a much smaller atoll with significantly increasing numbers of people and the psychological hardship”of being “ This latter hardship is the greater . . burden because land is considered all important to the Marshallese ?ea~le. removed from their traditional land. ii