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COMPACT OF FREE ASSOCIATION
ACI’ OF 1985
.
PUBLIC
.
LAW
99-239-JAN.
14, 1986
99 STAT.
department or agency of the United States or by contract with a
United Sta& firm) shall continue b
rovide special medical
,. care and logistical support thereto for t\ e remaining 174 rnembem of the population or Rongelap and Utnk who were exposed
to radiation resulting from the 1954 United States thermo
nuclear “Bravo” test, pursuant to Public Laws 95-134 and
96-205. Such medical care and ik accompanying logistical support
of the ~rnpact.
shall total $22,500,000 over the first 11 y-n
(2) AGRICULTURAL AND POOD wmc~hss.-Notwitktandmg
1783
91sat. 1159.
94SUL 84.
PraidmtofUS.
any other provision of law, upon the request of the Government
,of the Mamhall Islands, for the first five yea= afk the eff=tive date of the @npact,
the President (either through an
appropriate department or agency of the United Stites or by
contract with a United States find shall provide technical and
other assista.ne
(A) without reimbu-inent,
to coptinue the Ismt.ing and
agricultuml maintenance program on Eneweta i ;
(B) without reimbursement,
to continue the food regrams of the Bikini and Eneweti
people descri bel in
section l(d) of Afiicle 11 of the Subsidiary Agreement for
the Implementation
of %tion 177 of the bmpact and for h; p.1812
continued watertmme transposition
of agricultural products to Enewetak including operations and maintenance of
the vessel d
for such purposes.
(3) PArrwzm%-Payments
under this subsection shall be pre
for
vialed to such extint or in such amounts as are necessa
services and other assistance providd pursuant to this suL
tion. It is the sense of C2mgr- that aftir the periods of time
speci-fi@ in paragraphs (1) and (2) of this suba@ion, consideration wdl be given to such additional, funding for these pgrarns as may be n~ry.
-use
Rongelap was directly affixted by &rdous
(i) RorwmAP.--tl)
fallout from a 1954 United S~tes thermonuclear
test and because II18terids.
Cmtrads.
the Rongelap people remain unconvinced that it is safe to continue
ta live on Rongelap Island, it is the intent of Con ess to take such
w overcome K e effects of such
ste
(if any) as may be necesa
of Kc)ngelap Island, and to are
fad%ut on the habitability
Rongelap Iaiand, if n=essary, m that it can be safely inhabited.
Accordingly, it is the ex~tion
of the Congress that the Government of the Mamhall Islands shall use such portion of the funds
ified in Afiicle II, =tion
l(e) of the subsidiary agreement for
s
t r e implementation
of section 177 of the Corn act as are mxessaw
up of
for the purpose of contracting with a qualifi J scientist or
scientis~ to review the da- collti
by the Depatiment o r Energy
relating to radiation levels and other conditions on Ronge!ap Island
resulting from the thermonuclear
Wst. It is the expectation of the
Cmgress that the Government of the Marshall Islands, after consultation with the people of Rongelap, shall select the party to
review such data, and shall contract for such review and for submis
sion of a report to the President of the United States and the
Con = as b the reaulta thereof.
(2~The PUITKW of the review refe~ed b in paragraph (1) of this
su~tion
shall be ti estiblish whether the dab citi in support of
the conclusions = ta the habitability of Rongelap Island, as set forth
in the Department
of Energy rePort entitled: “The Meaning of
Atolls in the Notihern Part of the Ma=hall
Radiation for ThIslands That Were Sunew4
in 1978”, dated November 1982, are