ay Los Alamos County Board of Educational Trustees -- The school system at Los Alamos is operated, under State law, by a statutory agency, the Los Alamos County Board of Educa- tional Trustees. Under successive contracts with the Commission, this Board uses the - school plant and related facilities provided by the Commission andadministers the Los Alamos Civic Auditorium jointly for school and general public use, as agent for the Commission. Financial grants-in-aid for the support of the work carried on by the Board of Educational Trustees are provided for in the contracts. The Board has no responsibility to the Commission except to operate the county educational system in accord with State law and manage the civic auditorium and, of course, to take reasonable care of the Governmentowned property made available, There is no contract fee. A separate contract was entered into for each fiscal year through 1953; the contract for the next period, however, will have a two-year term, covering the fiscal years 1954 and 1955. In June 1953, the Board of Educational Trustees had 198 full-time and 8 part-time employees. Mesa Public Library -- The community public library is managed by a non-profit corporation composed of five Los Alamos residents serving as Trustees. The operating contract, entered into in January 1951, is for a term of five years. There is no contract fee. Funds are provided by the Commission as needed to pay the cost of the work in excess of the insignificant amount of miscellaneous revenue received (consisting of overdue book fines and charges for the lending of phonograph records). The library staff in June 1953, consisted of 5 full-time employees plus 6 part-time workers whose services accounted for the equivalent time of 1-1/2 full-time employees, Los Alamos Golf Association -- One of the community recreational facilities at Los Alamos, the golf course and clubhouse, is operated by the Los Alamos Golf Association, an incorporated membership association, under a contract that became effective April 1, 1950, and has been extended to run through the calendar year 1955. There is no contract fee and the Commission makes no payments to the Golf Association. The contractor regularly employs three persons and supplements their work with part-time labor on a seasonal basis as needed. Contracts for Operations Elsewhere LAFO also administers the following major contracts in support of LASL thermonuclear weapons development: American Car& Foundry Company -- For engineering design, prototype production, and component testing facilities in Albuquerque in support of which the American Car & Foundry Company uses parts of other ACF plants such as the Buffalo works, West Milton, etc. The present contract was effective on September 1, 1952, and continues until December 31, 1954. Total fee provision is $404,819. Employees total 129. ALES ial i National Bureau of Standards -~ For operation of the Cryogenics Engineering Laboratory at Boulder, Colorado, for production of nitrogen and hydrogen, and basic engineering research studies of the characteristics of various materials, etc., at cryogenic temperatures, The present memorandum of understanding is on an indefinite basis. Since early in 1953, the arrangements between the National Bureau of Standards and AEC have been administered by SFOO, Albuquerque. The Los Alamos Field Office has had the security responsibility. The Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory has, throughout the period covered by the memorandum of understanding, provided the technical direction. Construction by the AEC on land belonging to the National Bureau of Standards was accomplished in three phases between May 1, 1951, and December 15, 1952. 46 , Plant is valued at $3,800,000. enn "A" Building houses Si