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Litigation by the beneficiary against the trustee to enforce
these obligations would unseemly and costly.
Every United States
including mirbers of the Congress,
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should
freely and willingly undertake to fulfill them by- planning,
f+..ding and conducting a cleanup, rehabilitation and resettlement program for the Enewetak People which approximates the ideal.
5.
Conclusion
We have made a number of recommendations in the course of
these comments to which we hope the program sponsors will give
consideration in the preparation of the final impact statement.
The recommendations relating to assessment of the radiological
risk, if accepted, may or may not result in delay for the project
as now planned.
We hope not, but certainly the further study
required and the development of soil, air and food contamination
Standards for plutonium may have a direct affect upon the initial
cleanup phase.
We urge the Defense Nuclear Agency to proceed with
funding requests and planning for the base camp and to seek commitments from the United States Conaress for the estimated cost of
te program as a whole based on the "Case 5" projections.
the same time all of
But at
the radiological investigations recommended,
here should be undertaken and high confidence results obtained eas
soon as possible so that they can be used to revise and improve
the radiological cleanup phase before moving forward with it.
It bears repeating here that we are mindful of the immense
amount of time, effort and money which has been devoted to development of this program to date by many officials in the Defense
Nuclear Agency,
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