7.
A 12 December message from Betts to the Lab directors Reeves and Hertford °
asks the laboratories
and
fleld offices to come wkkk up with a most
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realistic schedule for the future underground program and atmospheric
program which he wishes the NTS Planning Board to consider and pass on
' to him.
He emphasizes that it should be assumed that the underground
program wit! not be terminated in the near future and that the thinking
should address a "long pole" type of operation and this seems to be the
ftrst time that such an assumption is directed by Headquarters AEC.
Bradbury responded directly to Betts with the LASL shot list and his
feelings about why such shot lists must be taken with a grain of salt
no matter how realistic they are supposed to be.
Board members couldn't be assembled
Since the NTS Planning
in the time requested by DMA, Reeves
sent a rather lengthy TWX on [8 December to DMA after a meeting of the
field personnel
including the NTS contractors and excluding the labs
in which they tried to estimate the work load and give the various
alternative’ for length of workweek,
length of workday, requirements for
hiring additional personnel etc. etc.
This TWX I believe led Livermore
as documented in other notes to complain about the field offices taking
unilateral action that effects the laboratories testing programs.
The next NTS Planning Board meeting which did consider these schedules
in detafl was held on 3 January 1962 and is documented in other notes.