3.

Approved Work Orders were to be forwarded by the AEC

Resident Engineer to the H & N Resident Manager's Office

for assignment to the proper department within the H &N

organization and authorization to proceed,
4.

Copies of Work Orders and Authorizations were to be forwarded

to interested departments and divisions including the department responsible for the work, the Fiscal Division, and
others as required,

The processing procedure from the preparation of the initial request by the User to scheduling by the responsible H & N department, as
illustrated in Figure 17.1 normally took approximately half of a day.
Urgent orders were handled orally and were followed by confirming

paper work.

During the operational period, 1,123 Job 5 Work Orders were
executed, involving the expenditure of approximately 286,680 manhours.
These Work Orders are tabulated at the end of this section, The
variety of requirements in terms of types of materials and classifica-

tion of labor reflected in the 1,123 Work Orders processed is shown
in Table 17-1, and an analysis of Users by programs is presented as

Figure 17-2,

It should be noted, as well, that a portion of the

support services rendered included roll-up activities such as the
recovery, cleaning, packing, and shipping of instruments and similar

tasks related to putting the experimental portion of the Proving Ground

into standby condition.

The total costs involved in the support and

roll-up program (Job 5) to June 30, 1950, were $2,414,572.20, of
which $668,517.26 was attributable to Scientific Programs 2, 3, 4, 5,
» 7, and 8,

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