ntinues -oduced STATEMENT OF HIGH COMMISSIONER ADRIAN P. WINKEL BEFORE THE INTERIOR AND RELATFD AGENCIES SUBCOMMITTEE, COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS, HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, CONCERNING RESETTLEMENT OF THE PEOPLE OF BIKINI, MAY 22, 1978 -uat the hat it 1s -e lata. de have rased to he same i danger magni: poren- Mr. Chairman, Members of the Committee: The preceding statements of Mrs. Van Cleve and the Presentation of the Department of Energy clearly demonstrate the dilemma we face in dealing with the immediate and longerrange futures of the people now living on Bikini Island. Until last week, it had been a reasonable presumption based on predictions by the Department of Energy that Eneu in the Bikini Atoll would be a satisfactory place to which em off the Bikini people could be moved in the immediate short-run say the period and that it would also serve as @ permanent location -w ubout isn't it? for the bulk of the larger group still on Rili. We now know that this is not the case. We thus have the necessity of a temporary move to a location that most likely will not be the permanent home for these people. Uutistics eeomuch At this point let me say that there are no uninhabited isiands or atolls on which these people might make a permanent settlement. Uninhabited islands in the Marshalls are uninhabited because they are incapable of sustaining human life to any extent, particularly the numbers of people we are ‘ant dts on Ral yissioner made a fat will f talking about. Sa alahar a a eET ET TTT aSSCP BRRa 889