-6Here is an 8 Jan. 62 committee report from John Pollet of H&N on the 3 Jan. meeting of the "Operation Staghound - Support Coordination Committee," in Los Angeles. The opening words from this meeting state that for this operation (to be Dominic) "it is necessary to establish a group to review the requirements of the individual agencies and establish a coordinated plan free of conflicts and duplications. In the past, for Pacific operations. the J-6 group of the LASL has had this responsibility However, since no separate task group will be formed for the scientific agencies, and since the engineer-contractor will be deeply involved in accomplishing the necessary design and construction, it was determined by the AEC and the users that H&N incorporated, would be in the best position to accomplish this work." Thus this support coordination committee was set up with Spain as Chairman and Pollet as Vice-Chairman and with a committee member from each laboratory. The initial responsibilities of the committee generally in the area of reviewing overall requirements for conflicts and interference and coordinating activities are listed and some of the major efforts now under way for Dominic are presented in narrative form. Johnston Island is to have two Thor shots (Starfish and Blue Gill); the open sea airdrops are to be 15 to 25 to target barges in the open sea southwest of the Hawaiian Islands; also there are to be 4 to 6 shots on anchored Liberty ships for moderate diagnostics with the ship modifications to be done at Pearl Harbor; a neutron distribution and vulnerability tests will be conducted on an island with heavy instrumentation, to be either Jarvis or Baker Island at this time; there are to be 5 or more ships primarily carrying DOD instrumentation for 2 J.1. missile shots; instrumentation for the airdropped and open sea shots is presently being planned aboard the Hornet and 3 C-2 ships (Miller, Pendleton, and Kimbrow), the latter of which I am not sure were ever used; the Hornet will be modified in Long Beach by the Navy and the C~2's in San Francisco by the MSTS; only LRL and Sandia are noted as having rocket launched instrumentation based out of Kauai at this time; the LASL and possible DOD use of Haleakala for instrumentation