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The Administration's substitute would also
the fact that the
Program would provide medical care for ilinesses tx inj i
have resulted from moclear testiy, and is not interned to provide
comprehensive health care for general medical or psychiatric probless
that are unrelated to the testing program.
Our substitute for section 103 is as follows:
Sec. 103. The Act entitled "An Act to authorize certain
appropriations for the territories of the United States, to
amend certain Acts relating thereto, and for other purposes"
(91 Stat. 1159; Public Law 95-134) is amended
(1) in subsection 104 (a), by striking out
paragraph (4) ard redesignating paragraph (5)
as paragraph (4); and
(2) by inserting after section 105, the
following new section:
“Sec. 106. (a) Notwithstanding any other provisionof
lav, the Secretary of Energy shall provide far the people
Of
the atolis of Bikini. Enewetak, Rongelap, Utirik, and
such other atolls as the Secretary of Enercy may designate,
- and for their descertants, @ program of medical surveillance
and treatment, and envirormental research and monitoring, for
any iliness or injury which, in the sole opinion of the
Secretary of Energy, may fave been the result of the United
States nuclear weapons testing program at or near such atolls
during the pericd of 1946 to 1958. Such program shall include—
*(1) a periodic medical surveillance of
such pecpleandtheir descendants withspecial
enphasis.on diagnosis. andtreatment
jury
or illness that.may have resulted fromsuch
muclear weapons testing program;
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(2) a- periodic comprehensive monitoring
ana analysis of. the radiological statug,of the
“people and environment of the atolls described
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dn mubpection @) ofthis section, employing.
the mst curent scientific and technical
methods available, with emphasis on radionuclide
pathways to man through the food chain;
*(3) at appropriate intervals, but not less
frequently than once every five years, the development of an updated radiation dose assessment,
together with an estimate of the risk associated
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