Jia - Bell Telephone Company of Nevada (Pacific Telephone & Telegraph Company) -Installs and maintains all dial equipment and connecting cable plant to provide telephone and telegraph facilities at the Nevada Proving Grounds. Actual switchboard operation is performed by the Reynolds Electrical & Engineering Co., Inc. This is a continuing lump sum and unit price contract. Employment by this contractor is limited to a minimum of maintenance and installation personnel which fluctuates according to activity at the Proving Grounds. : General Adjustment Bureau, Inc, -~- Investigates and adjusts damage claims arising from the operations of the Commission at the Nevada Proving Grounds. Employment varies with the amount of damage to be surveyed at any particular time. This is a continuing con- tract and all services are rendered on a cost.basis with no allowance for profit or fee. Various LumpSum and/or Unit Price Construction Contracts -- The number of these contracts will fluctuate with the amount of expendable test facilities required for any particular test operation, Pacific Proving Grounds Eniwetok Atoll was used first in 1948 as the site of a ship-based operation. The Atoll is in the Marshall Islands, some 5,500 miles west by south from continental United States. United Nations concurrence was obtained for entry and for use. Immediately after Operation Sandstone, construction of permanent technical and support facilities was begun by Holmes & Narver, Engineers, Inc., under contract to AEC. OnSeptember 11, 1952, the AEC approved inclusion of Bikini Atoll in the Pacific Proving Grounds, such extension being necessary to accommodate increased test requirements. Construction at Bikini was started in late 1952. Operation and maintenance is an AEC responsibility with administration assigned to SFOO but with operational control assigned during tests to a Joint Task Force. Mission -- To be a site for those full-scale nuclear tests which are not admissible to a continental site, as required to support AEC weapons development and the atomic weapons utilization and defense programs of other national agencies, Eniwetok Field Office -- Was activated November 15, 1951, to administer the contract for maintenance, construction, and support at PPG. It occupies office space at SFOO, Albuquerque, during interim periods and additionally has a forward office at Parry Island, Eniwetok Atoll. Personnel totaled 16 in mid-1953. Physical Plant -- Initial construction was started July 1949, on a $19, 295, 265 program, of which approximately $13,015, 460 was for base facilities, the remainder being for expendable test structures, Permanent technical and support facilities at PPG were valued at $16, 319, 800 as of mid-1953. These totals do not include DOD facilities concentrated on Eniwetok Island. Contract -- Holmes &Narver, Engineers, Inc., performs engineering, construction, camp operation, and other support activities which are the responsibility of the AEC, under a cost-plus-fixed-fee contract. Scientific and specialized services are provided by partici- pating laboratories and other AEC contractors. Holmes &Narver personnel fluctuates with requirements but as of mid-1953 totaled 1,565 as compared with 1,425 in mid-1950. LGO DOgAS : J oni Lo 8