In September 1996, the United States Department of the Interior signed a 45 million dollar resettlement agreement with the islanders, stipulating that the islanders themselves will scrape off a few inches of Rongelap's still contaminated surface.
The United States Department of the Interior signed a 45 million dollar resettlement agreement with the islanders. This was in September 1996. The islanders themselves will scrape off a few inches of Rongelap's still contaminated surface. The United States Department of the Interior were stipulating this. This was in September 1996.