Note that there is absolutely no indication of any pertinent construction
activities in all of these monthly activity reports and that the first indication
of test resumption or increased activity for that purpose is in the-report
covering thru 30 Sept., where there is an indication that a number of AEC
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Headquarters personnel toured the Test Site on 28 Sept., including Luedecke and
Betts.
This was mainly because the NTS Planning Board meeting was held here.
Holifield, then Chairman of the JCAE, and Ramey, still executive Director
of that Committee visited the NTS on 30 Sept.
thru 2 Oct. for orientation and
tours.
A 29 Sept. 61 message from Bradberry to Betts coments on immediate changes
in the Lab. posture and funding picture due to weapons testing.
"It is possible
that 40 to S50 man equivalents could be shifted from Rover to the weapons program
in J and GMX divisions more or less immediately.
Another 40 to 50 could be added
to the overall Lab. staff in the course of the next twelve months in order to meet
the demands to appear to be shaping up and to reduce-as much as possible the impact
of these demands on Rover and reactor programs.''
This will mean an increase in
weapons program costs of about 1 and one half million in FY 62 and 2 and one half
million in FY 63.
"Additional fund requirements for weapons components will depend
largly on the level of activities at TA-49,
for example,
if these activities are to
remain essentially shut down through FY 63, there will probably be cnough in present
LASL estimates to cover procurement of these items.
Ilowever, it may be wise to pro-
vide for a hedge of $750 thousand dollars in FY 62 and one million dollars in FY 63.
to cover the possibility of an overlap."
Bradberry states that it will be several
weeks before the impact of weapons testing on reactor and Rover work will be clear
but it is expected that "the effect on the former will be slight and we may be able
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