Guam § 79605 - Pacific Radiation Survivors Monument.

§ 79605. Pacific Radiation Survivors Monument.

Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the Pacific Association of Radiation Survivors (PARS) is

hereby authorized to erect a “Guam Nuclear Down-winders Memorial Monument” in the municipality of

Hagåtña, in honor of the ultimate sacrifices of the men and women of Guam who, according to the U.S.

National of Academy of Science, were unknowingly exposed to nuclear radiation fallout that travelled

downwind from the U.S. nuclear weapons testing and detonation of sixty-two (62) nuclear bombs in the

Marshall Islands from 1946 to 1962, and who suffered from cancer and other illnesses associated with

radiation exposure.

(a) As part of the Hagåtña Master Plan, the Hagåtña Restoration and Redevelopment Authority

Board of Commissioners shall provide a monument and parks component that includes the Pacific

Association of Radiation Survivors Monument.

(b) The Pacific Association of Radiation Survivors in the preparation and construction of the

Monument shall comply with the following provisions:

(1) occupy a minimum of four hundred (400) square feet of land area within the municipality

of Hagåtña;

(2) submit to the Hagåtña Restoration and Redevelopment Authority the plan and design of

the Monument. The Monument shall include, at a minimum and as provided for in this Chapter,

the names of Guam’s men and women who were exposed to the downwind nuclear fallout and

who subsequently were diagnosed with cancer or other nuclear radiation related illness; and

(3) shall not hold the government of Guam liable or responsible for any expenses related to

the construction and maintenance for the monument authorized herein.

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