ee SIGRAH | -9- we should also like to reiterate that ic is unfortunate that A ne ree ue eee funds for this project cut into the annual appropriations. The question of additional compensation ‘or these people should also receive immediate attention. Rightly we. believe that this funding should come directly from the Department of the Defense and the Atomic Energy Commission. Furthermore, as Representative Ekpap Silk has pointed out, the program does not rehabilitate all of the islands to cheir original condition. Also, it should be noted that, contrary to the Administering Authority's report to the United Nations, Bikini, which was the site of 23 nuclear . detonations from 1945 to 1958 is by no means "radiation free" --despite a Presidential announcement. Some of the islands cannot be used in che future, We are in agreement that the Administering Authority's responsibilities should not cease with the physical recurn of the people. “ Mee ae mec me meer anna Toe GES WE re me. Set rene meat mae oe I believe the Congress will also agree with the Mission that the United States, after announcing it would return Eniwetok to its former owners, should not have conducted further tests, These people, from an atoll which suffered 35 nuclear explosions from 1948 to 1958, have strongly protested ‘the proposed program. We hope the Administering ; Authority will comply with this expression of local sentiment, whether or not the present injunction against the tests will be upheld. Additionally, as in the case of Bikini, . rehabilitations costs for Eniwetok should not be allowed || to cut into the future grant fund structure, It is also hoped that planning will include the full wishes of these displaced people. __ It would seem advisable that the Atomic . Energy Commission would wish to avoid the kind of controversy which developed in Rongelap and Utirik by a successful public information program concerning radiation in Marshallese erore those people are returned. Relative to the health and social aspects of the people: of Rongelap and Utirik Atolls who were exposed to radioactive fallout in 1954; I believe that there is little I can add .. to the report of the Special Joint Committee of the Congress which was given to the Visiting Mission. Representatives o£ the Committee will meet this month with representatives of che Atomic Energy Commission in Washington, to discuss certain recommendations which it has made, In other, more general areas of social importance, we ace happy to reporc that lew cost housing legislation was passed by the Congress, This legislation recognizes ~more- sw SRO por”