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submission was not the āchanged circumstancesā contemplated by the agreement. Some have described this as "ignored", and the tribunal has exhausted its funds, unable to pay remaining claimants by 2009, at which time it had awarded more than $ 2 billion for personal injury, property loss, and class-action claims, with much of that amount not paid to the claimants because of the lack of funds. The United States Court of
Federal Claims has rejected a claim from some Marshall Islands inhabitants, noting that the respective governments had already reached an agreement over claims, though also noting that the claimants can seek additional compensation from the US Congress. Facing the reduction of its available funds, the Tribunal has been forced to limit its payments; noting that "For the first nine months of 2006, an initial payment was made in the amount of 15% of each new or amended award. Effective October 1, 2006, the initial payment level was reduced to 5% of the amount of the compensation awarded." By the mid-2010s, about half of the valid claimants had died waiting for their compensation.
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regarding the commitments of the United States to address the impacts of U.S. nuclear testing in the
Marshall Islands. Speakers noted that while section 177 of the Compact of Free Association recognized the United States' responsibility "to address past, present and future consequences of the nuclear
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Republic of the Marshall Island (RMI) agreed to "espouse and dismiss" the private damages claims of its citizens that were in front of the US Court of Claims in exchange for the US government establishment of $ 150 million trust fund for settlement of all claims
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The tribunal effectively ceased functioning around 2011 with a 2012 media report noting that "there have been no judges employed by the
Tribunal for more than a year, and although the Tribunal remains open, it is now staffed only on a part-time basis". The official webpage of the NCT went offline in
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Nonetheless, in 1997 the tribunal noted that the funds received from US in the 1980s were inadequate, and by 2000 the RMI Government concurred that the trust fund had become "manifestly inadequate" to provide the compensation the
Section 177 of the Compact of Free Association promised. On September
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by persons injured as a result of nuclear tests in Nevada that the
Kirkpatrick & Lockhart LLP report of 2003 noted "were much smaller in number and magnitude than the tests conducted in the Marshall Islands". The 2000 RMI request to the US Congress was rejected with the statement that the
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which was to be used to compensate the affected Marshallese citizens over time. In addition, the agreement indemnified the parties and the government shall use the fund such that "The amount of such indemnification shall not, in the aggregate, exceed $ 150 million".
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The $ 150 million fund was designed to generate interest to allow for payouts exceeding its initial value. It was, however, subject to normal market economics, and its growth was not steady; it incurred a significant loss in the
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