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- # Addressing Past Wrongs
## Overview
This entity is a text segment extracted from a legal document titled *Vieques Remarks*, delivered by President William Jefferson Clinton on November 29, 1999. The segment, labeled "Addressing Past Wrongs," spans lines 445–446 of the source file and was extracted on January 28, 2026. It forms part of a structured breakdown of the President’s video remarks concerning U.S. Navy training operations on the island of Vieques, Puerto Rico. The segment outlines concrete measures intended to redress long-standing community grievances.
## Context
The segment is situated within [Vieques Remarks](arke:01KG2TSWADQKM6FJC6H5J03W80), a formal statement responding to public outcry following a fatal accident at the Navy’s Vieques training range in 1999. It follows the section on [Interim Measures](arke:01KG2TTKA80YDJ8AN6KSBW9WGS), which details temporary restrictions on military training, and precedes [Addressing Concerns and Proposing Solutions](arke:01KG2TTKBHCM7JA8V9FVXM4G2B), which expands on the broader policy framework. The document is part of the [Test Collection](arke:01KG2T49K0H5GDRB0G4YDTPG8H) and was derived from a plain text file generated from scanned archival pages.
## Contents
This segment details a series of economic, health, safety, and environmental initiatives aimed at rectifying historical neglect on Vieques. Specific measures include constructing a new commercial ferry pier and terminal, creating artificial reefs for fishing, providing temporary compensation to fishermen, improving road infrastructure, launching a bioluminescent bay preservation program, allocating land for airport expansion, and commissioning a Public Health Service Study. To ensure implementation and prevent past failures—particularly those of a 1983 agreement—the President pledges to establish a Pentagon-led working group to coordinate with Vieques officials on range use and transition planning.
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- Second, to meet past wrongs, we will address the economic, health, safety, and environmental concerns that we should have been addressing all along. Measures we will implement include, among other things, development of a new commercial ferry pier and terminal, an artificial reef to create new commercial fishing areas, temporary compensation for fisherman, expanding and improving roads, a bioluminescent bay preservation program, a job training program for young people, providing land to extend the airport runway, and a Public Health Service Study. To ensure these measures are taken – and that the missed opportunities of our 1983 agreement are not repeated – I will ask the Pentagon to establish a working group that will work with Vieques on all questions relating to the use of the range and coordination of these issues.
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- Addressing Past Wrongs