"The Committee agreed to a one time authorization of
$20 million to accomplish the cleanup.
The Department
is charged to accomplish the cleanup within that amount
using every possible economy measure.
The Committee
insists that radiation standards established by the
Energy Research and Development Agency be met before
any resettlement be accomplished."
fo
In hearings that gave risethat report, Mr. Mitchell, then
as now counsel for the people of Enewetak, supported the
above result, at hearings of May 7,
1975 on H.R.
5210
before the Subcommittee on Military Installations and
Facilities
:" .
(page 162 - 165), stated:
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« ERDA has been, I think wisely conservative in
the standards that they have set.
So that the ultimate objective, the premise of the cleanup program, is that when it is done, there will not be
a danger, a risk, for these people, for the entire atoll.
oe
.1 don't want these people to be endangered
at all.
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«
.
»« No danger to the people."
Similarly, when the Department of Interior's request for
rehabilitation and resettlement funds was under considera-
tion before your Subcommittee
on March 17, 1977, there was
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