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Department of the Interior, OIA: Other Insular Islands Fact
Sheets, Johnston Atoll (Aug. 2000). A military installation,
including an airstrip, occupies Johnston Island; however, access
to the island, as well as to all of the atoll, is restricted.
Environmental Assessment, 57 Fed. Reg. 9277 (Mar. 17, 1992); 32
C.F.R. sec. 761.4(c) (2000); 16 Encyclopedia Americana, supra at
147. Also located on Johnston Island is Johnston Atoll Chemical
Agent Disposal System (JACADS), a facility for incinerating U.S.
chemical weapons stockpiles. Greenpeace USA v. Stone, 748 F.
Supp. 749, 752-753 (D. Haw. 1990); Environmental Assessment,
supra at 9278.
Johnston Atoll is not a part of American Samoa, see S.J.
Res. 110, ch. 281, 45 Stat. 1253 (1929), current version at 48
U.S.C. secs. 1661-1662 (1994); Guam, see Organic Act of Guam, ch.
512, sec. 2, 64 Stat. 384 (1950), current version at 48 U.S.C.
sec. 1421 (1994); or the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana
Islands (CNMI), see Covenant to Establish a Commonwealth of the
Northern Mariana Islands in Political Union with the United
States of America, Pub. L. 94-241, sec. 1005(b), 90 Stat. 263,
278 (1976), current version at 48 U.S.C. sec. 1801 (1994);
Trusteeship Agreement for the Former Japanese Mandated Islands,
July 18, 1947, U.N.-U.S., Art. 1, 61 Stat. 3301; H.J. Res. 233,
ch. 271, 61 Stat. 397 (1947). Additionally, islands making up
Johnston Atoll are specifically excluded from the islands making
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