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06/18/2007
U.S. Rebuffs Rongelap Landowners, Cuts Funds
http://archives.pireport.org/archive/2007/june/06-18-03.htm
By Giff Johnson
SAIPAN, CNMI (Marianas Variety, June 18) – The U.S. government is halting an annual US$600,000 payment to nuclear test affected islanders in the Pacific in response to a demand by a traditional leader for more than four times the amount.
Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Interior David Cohen told Rongelap Atoll Mayor James Matayoshi in a May 24 letter obtained Friday that Interior will no longer approve the US$600,000 annual "tribute" to islanders that has been paid annually since 1998 for use of their land.
A U.S. Congress-provided US$45 million resettlement fund has, since 1998, paid for power, water, road, housing and other community infrastructure needed for islanders to resettle their island that was exposed to a snow storm of radioactive fallout from the 1954 Bravo hydrogen bomb test at nearby Bikini Atoll. About US$20 million of the fund has already been used for the improvements at Rongelap
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