CONGRESS OF MICRONESIA
SAIPAN, MARIANA ISLANDS 96950
SPECIAL JOINT COMMITTEE
CONCERNING RONGELAP &
February 28, 1974
UTIRIK ATOLLS
Senator Olympio T. Borja, Chairman
Representative Timothy Oikeriil
Representative Ataji Balos
The Honorable Tosiwo Nakayama
President of the Senate
Congress of Micronesia
and
The Honorable Bethwel Henry
Speaker of the House of Representatives
Congress of Micronesia
Dear Sirs:
Pursuant to House Joint Resolution No. 73, adopted
by the First Regular Session of the Fifth Congress
of Micronesia, your Special Joint Committee Concerning Rongelap and Utirik Atolls, herewith presents
its reports to the Congress on compensation for the
people of the aforesaid atolls.
This document represents the third report by your Conmittee to the Congress of Micronesia. The first report,
as required by P.L. 4C-33 was presented to the Presiding
Officers of the Congress on May 16, 1972. This interim
report presented some of the Committee's findings to
that date and outlined its future plans. The second
report on Medical Aspects of the Incident of March 1,
1954 was presented to the First Regular Session of the
Fifth Congress in February 1973, As recommended, this
report has also been summarized and translated into the
Marshallese language and will be distributed to the
people of Rongelap and Utirik.
The report, which we submit now, deals with various
aspects of possible compensation for these people who
were irradiated, dislocated, and certain of whom have
suffered illness and other affects from their experience
of nearly 20 years ago.
Accordance with its previous report, this report also
make certain recommendations which it feels are both
practical and reasonable, with which we hope the people
of Rongelap and Utirik and the members of this Congress
will agree and will find satisfactory.
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