[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 2182 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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115th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                S. 2182

To provide for the resettlement and relocation of the people of Bikini.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                            December 1, 2017

 Ms. Murkowski introduced the following bill; which was read twice and 
       referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources

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                                 A BILL


 
To provide for the resettlement and relocation of the people of Bikini.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Bikini Resettlement and Relocation 
Act''.

SEC. 2. RESETTLEMENT AND RELOCATION FOR THE PEOPLE OF BIKINI.

    The matter under the heading ``trust territory of the pacific 
islands'' under the heading ``Office of Territorial Affairs'' under the 
heading ``DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR'' in chapter VIII of title I of 
the Supplemental Appropriations Act, 1982 (Public Law 97-257; 96 Stat. 
840), is amended by striking the first proviso and inserting 
``Provided, That such funds, including funds provided pursuant to the 
Department of the Interior and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 
1989 (Public Law 100-446; 102 Stat. 1774), shall be available for the 
relocation and resettlement of the Bikini people living on Kili and 
Ejit Islands, subject to the right of disapproval of the Secretary of 
the Interior, with the exercise of the right to continue until the date 
on which the Secretary of the Interior submits to the Committee on 
Energy and Natural Resources of the Senate and the Committee on Natural 
Resources of the House of Representatives a resettlement plan developed 
in coordination with the Bikini Atoll leadership: Provided further, 
That, until the date on which a resettlement plan approved by the 
Secretary of the Interior has been submitted to each of the Committee 
on Energy and Natural Resources of the Senate and the Committee on 
Natural Resources of the House of Representatives, for any fiscal year, 
annual expenditures from the Resettlement Fund established by this 
section and pursuant to the Department of the Interior and Related 
Agencies Appropriations Act, 1989 (Public Law 100-446; 102 Stat. 1774), 
may not exceed 5 percent of the principal of the Fund, based on the 
average market value of the Fund for the previous 5 fiscal years, as 
determined as of September 30 of each fiscal year:''.
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