References made heré on 18 January J960 to a preliminary development plan for a outerspace weapons test proposal which was prepared by air force K ballistic division and forwarded to the AEC which | have taken notes on from other files. several TWX's that follow indicate thai in fact some of the purchasing is to “be done for such things as vacuum pipes and supports, I believe for *radiochemistry purposes and that digging is authorized for the U12B09 AM tunnel, A TWX dated 19Januaryfrom the Albuquerque AEC Office to DMA states that the estimate for Teller's scientific construction program from Albuquerque is estimated to be about 2.3 million dollars as opposed to the 625 thousand that Teller had estimated. Overall,ALO estimates a cost of about 3.8 million dollars as a total to meet the ‘proposed readiness dates and it includes the 2.3 million just mentioned as well as a premium to mect the schedule dates, money for‘expansion of Area 12 Camp and increased operations costs. As for the cable procurement, ALO is proceeding to order the additional coaxial cable to meet the needs of LRL program. A TWX from Sam Howell of H&N to ALC on 19 January gives-the estimates ‘for the four locations to mect the LRL schedule. In each case the on-going and already authorized work and its cost as well as the additional cdsts are listed. These are the costs which were the basis for the ALO TWX to DMA onthe same date. Approximatcly 2 million dollars of tunnel construction for the four tunnels is in progress, an additional 2.3 would be required for what is called additional scientific work, and the grand total of 4.3 million @ollars to ready the four tunnels de not include approximately a 20% increase to mect the proposed LRL schedule.. Furthermore, ‘there would be some problems in coordinating the activities involved in preparation for Cowboy/Hobo and tne Marshmellow program in UI2E01. Furthermore, to expand the facilities to handle this effort, approximately 1.4 million dollars would be required. There is a large amount of correspondence that follows where various schedules are considered that would not meet the May 25 readiness date but which would also not incur the prexsnium cost due to a speeded up schedule and such things as an LRL request for authorization for direct procurement of the coaxial and diagnostic cables through their own channels is granted by ALO.