-llhave a Livermore detection station nearby as well as some EG&G equipment. MM site is shown to have a fair amount of Sandia equipment (7 trailers) and some EG&G equipment. Y site is to have 1 LASL trailer. All 4 of these sites are to be ready for ' ‘operational occupancy" by 20 Mar. ‘As for the fuel situation, it is shown that there are to be 2 steel pipelines from the shore to the tank farms which are to be operational by the 28th of Mar. On 7 Mar. 63, Carruthors sent out a Livermore announcement that J. Shearer would now be charged with technical direction and basic planning for air drops whereas F. C. Gilbert would act in a similar capacity for Livermore in high altitude plans. Both men are now designated as Deputy Test Group Directors for Livermore on future Pacific Testing Programs. NVOO Progress Reports in Apr. of 63 indicate that DMA has approved reduction of the contractor to about 50 total at Christmas Island by the end of June and that certain activities such as preparing aggregate for expansion of the runway facilities are curtailed. Box 135 These notes will be from various volumes of folders of correspondence on Dominic, most of them entitled "Dominic," Bluestraw." but the first is entitled "Ever Ready, It covers the period Sept. 61 thru Nov. 61. Here is record of a phone call from E. Bowen of H&N to Sherman Sullivan in Los Angeles on 13 Sept. 61 wherein H&N proposed to make a study of what it would take to reactivate Elmer and Sullivan told him that while he felt such a study would be highly desirable, political considerations might preclude doing this. Sullivan spoke with Rex of ALO and got agreement that the presence of H&N personnel