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to accomplish the clean-up using personnel and equipment paid
for out of their respective budgets. It is estimated that
this work will cost the services approximately $60 million.
Another $12.4 million was appropriated for rehabilitation.
Additionally, completion of necessary radiological work
will cost the Department of Energy at least $5.2 million
which will come out of its budget.
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When it passed the legislation for the clean-up of
Enewetak,
Congress expressed a clear intention that its
appropriation constituted the total commitment of the
United States for this purpose.
Thus,
the Act provided:
"That none of the funds appropriated
under this [Military Construction, Defense
Agencies) paragraph may be expended for the
cleanup of Enewetak Atoll until such time
as the Secretary of Defense receives cer-
tification from appropriate administering
authorities of the Trust Territory of the
Pacific Islands that an agreement has been
reached with the owners of the land of
Enewetak Atoll or their duly constituted
representatives that this appropriation
shall constitute the total commitment of
the Government of the United States for
the cleanup of Enewetak Atoll."
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On September 16, 1976, the Trust Government and representatives
of the Enewetak people entered into an agreement recognizing
that the appropriation made under Public Law No. 94-367 con-
stituted the total commitment of the United States Government
for the clean-up of the atoll. A copy of this agreement is
attached at Tab D.
To summarize, the people lost the use of the land on
Enewetak Atoll from 1947 to the present.
for this loss of use,
In compensation
the people already have been paid
monetary compensation of $1,195,000,
and given use,
occupancy and full title to 428.8 acres of substitute
land on Ujelang Atoll which has been valued by the
Department of the Interior at $425,000.
Finally, the
United States has undertaken a comprehensive clean-up
and rehabilitation program that will cost more than
$96 million when completed.
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