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BUG 7 1974,
Mr. Thomas S. Dunmire, Staff Consultant
Connittee on Interior ’ and insular Affairs
‘House of Representatives
_ Dear Mr. Dunoire:
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This is in response to your request of June 13, 1974, to Dr. S. Marks |
*- -of my staff for AEC-corments on a report of the Special Joint Comittee
Concerning Rongelep end Utirik Atolls of the Congress of Micronesia.
The report provides docuzeatetion supporting a request for compensaticn —
for damages to the Ronget2p and Utirik Atolls and their inhabitants
resulting troa the therconuclear test conducted on Bikini Atoll on
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Briefly stated, the report requests the following types of compensation:
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Payments of $50,000 each to the mother and father of the deceased
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Payzents of $25,000 each to persons’ who have had thyroid operations
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Payments of $1,000 each to the people of Utirik who were relocated
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leukezia patient;
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because of radiation-incuced disease;
subsecuent to the test; and
Funds of $25,000 annually for community purposes for each atoll(Rongelz> and Utirix) in addition te the usual Grant Fund appropriations by the U. S. Congress,
In February 1950, les21 action was initiated o
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of Rorgelap Atoll to seek compensation for damages suffered as a consequence of the test. Although tne suit was dismissed for lack of
jurisdiction of the court in the Trust Territory, the complaint was
considered to have rerit by the United States Congress. Accordingly,
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Jegislation was enacted on August 22, 1964 (P.L. 88-485), to provide
compensation to the people of Rongelap.
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