12f 22f/Po DRAFT +2/32-++80Interior, TIA R. VAN CLEVE To the Speaker of the House and the President of the Senate Dear : The Secretary of the Interior is required by section 102 of Public Law 96-205 to submit to the Congress by January 1, 1981, apian for health care and related programs for people of the Marshall Islands. Owétng-te the-current—trancitiente—s_newAdministratton;—and—te—eur—desireLo afford THE WEFW FLEX!' Bier ry tohat Administration as much #reedem-of-actten as possible, we are submitting at this time only a preliminary report, with the expectation that a final plan will be submitted to you sometime after the Inauguration. I should like to set forth below certain of the key provisions of the statute a statement of some of the areas in which the statute presents problems of construction¢ information concerning the Interior Department's efforts to implement the statutes and brief summaries of the proposals we have elicited to form the basis for the plan to be submitted later to the Congress The statute Section 102 of Public Law 96-205 contains the following provisionsy relevant to our current undertaking: -- The plan required of the Secretary of the Interior results from the United States’ nuclear weapons testing program conducted in the Marshall Islands during the period 1946 to 1958, -- The beneficiaries of the plan are to be "the people of the atolls of Bikini, Enewetak, Rongelap, and Utirik and...the people of such other atolls as may be found to be or to have been exposed to radiation from the