CHAPTER 12.4
ESTIMATES FOR JOBS 4 AND 5
It should be noted in connection with the estimates prepared for
work under Jobs 4 and 5 of the Contract, that definitive criteria were
established by the AEC in August 1950, as follows:
"In order that you may have at hand definite criteria on which
to base your revised estimate of cost for Job Nos. 4 and 5 of the
Contract, information is given below which is believed to be sufficiently comprehensive to form a good basis for such an estimate,

1.

Assumptions:
(a) The date of the first shot is on or about April 15, 1951;
the second May 1, and the last May 15.

(b) The order of shots will be Site "E", "D", and "C*,
(c) All construction, aside fram incidental work by the socalled labor pool, will be completed not later than

March 1, 1951.

(d)

Scientific and task force personnel will arrive at and

depart from the jobsite as shown on the graphs presented
to you in our letter SD-5912 dated August 4, 1950, but
with the understanding that the fourth shot and one KrauseHall experiment are omitted.

(e) Your post-operation maintenance and roll-up forces will
be based on Eniwetok Island together with the military
garrison force,

No preparation will be made for any further series of
tests,
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(a) Undertake to perform this job on sites "B", "C", "D", and

*E" as described in the Contract and on Site "A" as
described in the Memorandum of Agreement for Construction
on Eniwetok Island, between AEC and JTF-3, These duties

are to be assumed at each site as construction is completed
and as required to support operational, as distinguished
from construction, activities, since the cost of camp
operation, maintenance and management during construction

is already included in the construction cost estimates.

(b)
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Job. No. 4 will cease on each shot island at the time their

respective shots are fired.

It will cease on Japtan Island

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