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ADORTCSS REPLY TO
PLSP
2 MAY 1963
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MEMORANDUM FOR:
SUBJECT:
1.
THE SECRETARY OF DEFENSE
THE SECRETARY OF INTERIOR
_CHATREAN, ATOMIC ENERGY COMMISSION
GT RECCRU COPY
Status Report, Cleanup of Bikini Atoll (U)
References:
a,
Presidential letter for Secretary of Interior,
b,
Presidential letters for Secretary of Defense and Chairman,
ec.
Director, Joint Staff Memorandum 140-69 for Director, Defense
1968, subject:
Resettlement of Bikini Atoll.
Atomic Energy Commission,
of Bikini. Atoll,
Atomic Support Agency,
dated 12 August
dated 12 August 1968, subject:
dated 30 January 1969,
subject:
Resettlement
Bikini Atoll,
DOD Support for Clearing Operation,
d,
Memorandum of Understanding between Defense Atomic Support
Agency and Atomic Energy Commission, dated 11 February 1969, subject:
Cleanup of Bikini Atoll,
2.
Reference a requested the Department of the Interior to develop a4
program to resettle the former natives on Bikini, and reference b
requested the Department of Defense (DOD) and Atomic Energy Commission
(AEC) to assist the Department of Interior and the High Commissioner
of the Trust Territory, Pacific, in that resettlement.
As a pre-
requisite to it, the DOD and the AEC jointly agreed to clear Bikini
Atoll of residuals from its use for nuclear teSting which could be
hazardous to the natives or could interfere with their agricultural
use of the land, and references c and d designated Director, Defense
Atomic Support Agency (DASA) as the AEC-DOD Project Manager for that
cleanup,
Funding in amounts of $300,000 each from AEC and DOD was
provided for cleanup operations commencing in FY 1969, with $700,000
to be provided by the Department of Interior in FY 1970 to complete
this task.{ 9..."
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