es bedroom apartments. This category was considered by LASL to be undesirable housing, of which the temporary units should be replaced with modern permanent housing. oT LASL proposed and it was approved that assignment and utilization of family-type quarters would be as follows; . That all presently occupied family quarters be allocated by specific unit (address) for use by the employer of the present occupant. That the Laboratory be allocated all of the’so-called Category I units which were vacant and unselected or uncommitted. That the balance of the vacant housing units be distributed among the three allotments (LASL, The Zia Company, and "AEC and Others"), in accordance with the allotment balances. That the Laboratory be allocated an additional 269 of such Category I units, on a trade basis when such units become vacant in the future by attrition within allotments of the other two employer groups. That the major employing agencies (LASL, The Zia Company, and "AEC and Others") will, in the future, be responsible for the assignment and utiliza- tion of the housing units allocated them in accordance with rules and regulations recommended by the Housing Policy Board and approved by the Manager, LAFO, The latter item meant that each of the three agencies would administer the housing allocated to it rather than having all the housing at Los Alamos administered as a pool by the AEC Housing Office. Further discussionat this meeting revealed that LASL considered this to be only a stop-gap proposal and a first move. A representative of LASL stated that "in order for LASL to maintain its present strength it would require all but approximately 500 of the existing family housing units considered as 'Category I'," By means of such measures it is hoped that the requisite type and quality of housing will be made available in sufficient numbers to permit LASL to retain its trained employees and to recruit additional ones pending the time when additional numbers of acceptable type and quality of housing can be built. Replacement of Substandard Housing An appropriation for replacement of temporary housing was first requested in the fiscal year 1950 budget with the first phase of the replacement program as a part of Group 13 Housing. However, the appropriation received had to be diverted for the construction of additional family housing to accommodate an unforseen expansion of LASL. Likewise, appropriations in fiscal years 1951 and 1952 for Group 14 and Group 15 Housing, which were originally planned as replacement housing, had to be used for additional housing. aa lemental request was made in fiscal year 1953, but funds were not made available. EER During January 1953, a Housing Program was planned for fiscal years 1954, 1955, 1956, and 1957 which envisaged the complete replacement of all of the temporary family housing units and the building of 215 additional units to satisfy the requirements brought about by planned expansion at LASL. awd . wea 98 | /e3