AO? 1S Agreement Between The United States Department of Energy and | The Trust Territory of The Pacific Islands Regarding Medical Care of the Rongelap and Utirik People The United States Department of Energy (DOE), formerly ERDA and AEC, has for nearly twenty-four years conducted a program of medical surveilance of the people of Rongelap and Utirik atolls who were accidentally exposed to fallout from a weapons test in 1954. Since 1956 this program has been carried out tnder the direction of Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL) with the cooperation and participation of the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands (TTPI). The purpose of this document is to formulate an agreement between DOE and the TIPI concerning the DOE-BNL Medical Program in the Marshall Islands. This agreement supersedes and extends that of February, 1977 (copy attached). The agreement reached between ERDA and TIPI (December 2, 1974) regarding implementation of the Congress of Micronesia PL-5-52 (Trust Territory Fallout Survivors Act, COPy 4! Ne - Rongelap or Utirik exposed and control groups who become ill. This resulted in the February 1977 agreement referred to above with provisions for increased medical assistance by DOE to the TTPI in the discharge of health care responsibilities to the people living on Rongelap and Utirik. FOLDER oO Territory (including travel and per diem allowances for individuals in the eare for all the people living on these islands. J otf & 4 Oo BOX No. o ~ O uu This agreement allows for free hospitalization within the Trust separately requested that the DOE Medical Program include more comprehensive 2. F MAASIKA poc= =z continues The people living on Rongelap and Utirik atolls have recently and ne EC iounnoS in effect. attached) During the past year, the agreement has been implemented by both parties, apparently to the satisfaction of the Marshallese people involved. That agreement only covered the calendar year 1977; hence, the present agreement is intended to supplant that one. 10111790 17640