3.
The staff of the Joint Task Force, being organized for
this operation,
is reaching the stages of advanced planning and
the time schedule is such as to require the completion of their
plans and the movement of the initial construction units to the
test area early in November.
The present time schedule now calls
for the complete movement of construction personnel,
equipment,
and material to the embarkation point by December 1.
The fiscal aspects of the proof test program have been
under consideration by the Atomic Energy Commission (Director of
Budget and:'Comptroller)
and fiscal representatives of the Joint
Task Force Commander (Captain C. G. DeKay, USN, and Lt, Colonel
W. C. Workinger, USA).
Pending determination by the Task Force!
Commander of these items of expense which the Commission would
be expected to finance,
of the Treasury,
the Chairman,
dated October 3,
by letter to the Secretary
1947,
requested an initial
transfer of funds in the amount of $5,000,000 to the Department
of the Navy from which expenses of the Task Force would be borne.
As presented in Enclosure "B" of the report bythe
Joint Proof Test Committee the expenses to be borne by the Commission for the Armed Forces Participation are estimated to be
$20,000,000.
It therefore becomes necessary to transfer an ad-
ditional $15,000,000 to the Department of the Navy.
STAFF JUDGMENTS
4,
The Director of the Budget, the Comptroller, the -
Associate Director of the Office of Public and Technical Information, and the Deputy Director of Secyrity and Intelligence have
read those parts of the report to the Joint Chiefs of Staff per-
taining to their operations and concur in Appendix "A",
The
Office of the Director of the Budget prepared Appendices "B" and
Non
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