om be I t a ae wwe’ - In the 22 January Commission meeting, ‘3; CS el we tt "a ‘ ‘ . oye Ly cy 4 | 4 if Plowshare was summarized at some length, with Luedecke summarizing the finding of the ALOO consultants who concluded that the tests could be conducted safely and the details and time scale and funding requirements for the Gnome project were then set forth. Mr. English reviewed the words that the Plowshare Advisory Committee had provided, following their “14-15 January 1960 | meeting, with the recommendations: ''That each Plowshare detonation be highly instrumented; that the Project Gnome shot be detonated at the earliest date consistent with the International situations; that the Ditchdigger program be initiated as soonas possible in order to demonstrate Ditchdigger principles by the time the Chariot detonations are carried out; and that the bio-environmental survey work for project Chariot be continued at its present level but no further expanded.'"' In further discussions of Chariot, "Mr. McCone thought the plans were getting ahead of reality and referred toa psychological attitude building up in the public against activities which would place additional fission products in the atmosphere...... The Chairman said that before the AEC could proceed with Chariot there would be problems with the White House, Congress, State and other Federal Agencies. He thought it would be alright to continue with the ecological survey, but there should be no other shot preparation. Mr. Floberg said he believed the ecological survey alone was worth the money being spent for Chariot."' The Commission decision at this meeting were to: Approve procccding with site preparation and construction for Gnome, which would be made public by a release at the time that the . bids went out for site preparations; 106