The expansion of the program to include general overall medical
care has not yet been estimated but the cost could be very high since
this would require the creation of new medical facilities and full
time assignments of medical personnel in the Marshall Islands.
Given the extension of the current medical followup program to
additional atolls and people, and assuming that one atoll would be
added to the program per year, and that there would be at least one
trip per year (more likely two) to each atoll, future: cost estimates
for medical followup are:
FY80
Fy81
FY82
FY83
FY84
FY85
$1. 465M
$5.572M
6872
8472
9772
10,000
Rongelap
Utirik
add
Enewetak
Bikini
Likiep
add
Wotje
add
Ailuk
add
Mejit
Partial
Bikini
FY86
10, 000
other
(The Marshall Island Government has also requested that the atolls/
islands of Lae, Ujae, Kili (Bikinians) and Ujelang (Enewetakese) be
included.)
BUDGET~ENVIRONMENTAL
Whole body counting currently is conducted with the people of
Rongelap, Utirik, and more recently, Bikinians who resided on Bikini
Island.
Initial counts also are being made on the people of Enewetak
prior to their return to the Atoll.
Research and environmental monitoring (except for the 13-atoll
survey) are conducted primarily at Bikini and Enewetak Atolls, and the dose
assessment studies have been directed primarily toward the resettlement
issue of the Bikini and Enewetak peoples.