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strong reiteration that Federal Radiation standards would be

follewed.

General Warren D. Johnson, then Director of DNA, was

a backup witness at this hearing and testified:

"

.

,

(p. 768)

.The Department of Defense is committed to clean
the island up to the standards established by ERDA,

and ERDA is committed to assure we have reached those
Standards, so this is a coordinated effort.

In other

words, we cannot move anybody back until ERDA says,
"you have done what we have said has to be done."

The Master Plan for the Enewetak Rehabilitation and Resettlement Program that was submitted to your Committee for
funding in 1977. was developed around the radiation standard
Stipulations set forth by the Department of Energy and by
Congress when it approved the cleanup funding.

As noted

earler in this report, the Master Plan called only for the
rehabilitation and resettlement of the three southern
islands, Enewetak, Medran, and Japtan, and for the planting
of only certain of the northern islands as well as the south-

ern islands.
35-50 years,

.

Engebi Island was not to be used for the next

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i.e.,

until natural decay of strontium cesium

.

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The people of Enewetak agreed to these stipulations and had
a major role in the development of the approved Master Plan.
Thus, in addition to the radiation risk elements still
unresolved, resettlement of the Engebi people on Engebi

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