date would be submitted for a "P" approval only. It was assumed that his work contract would have expired before a "Q" clearance would be required, and in cases of renewal or extension of contract, later submissions for "Q" clearance were to be made necessary. The object of this procedure costs and to reduce the work load with Holmes & Narver clearances, than one year before the limiting clearance costs could be effected phases of the clearance program, was to effect economies in clearance in the AEC and FBI Offices concerned At that stage of the operation (more date), a substantial savings in without materially affecting any other By November 1, 1949, although the tentative limiting date (November 1, 1950) had not been changed it was considered by the Chief Security Officer, Holmes & Narver, that submission for "P" approvals only should be continued until a reasonably good estimate of the number of "Q" cleared persons to be required in the various job classifications could be made, based on later considerations of job progress and job requirements, On January 6, 1950, a security meeting was held in the Holmes & Narver offices in Los Angeles to determine pertinent security procedures, This meeting included security representatives from the Of- fice of the Director of Security at Los Alamos, the AEC Los Angeles Security Branch Office, the Washington Area AEC Security Office, and security and other officials of Holmes & Narver. At this meeting, it was announced that special clearance arrangements had been made for the clearance of personnel hired in the Hawaiian Islands, These arrangements permitted the granting of local check "P" approvals by an AEC security representative stationed in Honolulu for all persons who had resided in the islands for a period of at least 10 years. This procedure greatly accelerated the receipt of "P" approvals and the hiring program in the Hawaiian Islands, It did not affect the time required for a "Q" clearance, At thta meeting it was also announced that the limiting date, although still tentative, probably would not be later than November 1, 1950, and might be earlier. Shortly after tne meeting, the Holmes & Narver Chief Security Officer decided that-in order to insure a sufficient nucleus of cleared personnel by the limiting date, all personnel departing from the United States for the Jobsite should be submitted for a "Q" clearance upon departure and that persons already at the Jobsite with a "P* approval should be submitted for a "Q" clearance as soon as Jobsite Management could determine with a reasonable degree of certainty that the nen would remain beyond the limiting date. Beginning about February 1, 1950, all "P" approval personnel sent to the Jobsite were processed for a "Q" clearance. This was continued until about April 25, 1950, when oral instructions were received from the Chief, AEC-NME Test Security Branch to discontinue processing "Q* until June 1, 1950, and thereafter to process only those men whose services would be needed after the establishment of the new limiting date. T-T