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Dennis Olsen
Are you aware of any attempt to tender the
Environmetal Impact Statement directly to the
Eniwetok people?
Lt. Col. Circeo
I don't think so, I just don't know. The Counsel
of Environmental Quality send the reports out to
agencies concerned, I am not sure if they~send one
to the Trust Territory Government or not although
we brought one out for them. Anybody is free to
comment on the Environmental Impact Statement. Now
after 45 days, I think it is, we get all the comments
and we put out the final statement.
draft right now.
Roger Ray
This is just a
It is not a normal thing for the agency of the
Department of Defense to deal directly with the Trust
Territory. Normally that cross-over is made at
departmental level. I am not sure that you have a
complete picture when you ask whether DNA or the
project people dealt directly with the Trust Territory.
The normal channel would be between the Department of
Defense and the Department of Interior.
I don't think
it is fair to ask Col. Circeo the negative question.
Dennis Olsen
I just want to get some idea of the actual sequence.
When did the facts become known and discovered within
the Trust Territory?
Roger Ray
We just have no way of knowing it.
Lt. Col. Circeo
But we did send copies to Interior.
Dennis Olsen
In early April?
Lt. Col. Circeo
I assume the 18th of April.
Peter T. Coleman
I have the regulations
that we submit these under if you would like to read it.
The return of Eniwetok is actually something that has
been negotiated for several years.
I have been Deputy ©
High Commissioner for 3 years now and I know that the
District Administrator of Marshalls, Mr. Heine and
himself made representation to the headquarters several
years back as to when Eniwetok was
going to be returned.
When the decision was finally made in the office cf the
President and the date was set, we were notified that
certain programs that had to be implemented by that date.
Congressman Balos Is kind of sad for these Eniwetokese people to come here
and see what happened to their islands.
I was wondering
why they were not informed of this or consulted about this
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