. . q J-DO Vault Minutes of NTS Planning Board Meetings Beginning with the 13 September 1961 Meeting The following notes cover the recommendations from Mr. Reeves of NVOO and the pertinent notes from each of the Planning Board meetings by meeting date: a3 September 1961 - In addition to the information and conclusions and .recommendations coming out of the meeting Reeves provides Gen. Betts with the following information: (1) that preliminary planning in connection with reopening the EPG has been initiated and that a 21 September meeting between LRL, LASL, Sandia, Holmes § Narver and Reeve's office will be held in Los Angeles to develop an integrated approach to the Eniwetok requirements such as balloons, barges, towers, cabling, etc. Further, that a preliminary report should be available in about 3 to 4 weeks after a small survey party from H @ N visits the Eniwetok facilities which is hoped to be immediately. (2) that ALO is presently working on the budget for the upcoming NTS program and that cost estimates are being prepared and should be submitted to DMA and appropriate authorities prior to 20 October 1961. Following are the specific notes on the Planning Board discussion by item discussed: events; (1) a review of DMA, LASL, LRL proposed it was concluded that it was unrealistic to attempt to firm ud a schedule for any period longer’ than 4 months and that such @ schedule should be considered very tentative. Comments were made on the short-tera schedule which would cover the operational pericd for Nougat through ‘February 29, 1962 only. It was recommended that an additional operational period and title be established for the period beginning 1 March 1962. The events, sites, general readiness period and details of each shot were tabulated for the period beginning March '62 and were stated to be very tentative. It was recommended that Presidential approval for special material ‘expenditure for Nougat should be in gross figures rather than being related to specific events. The LASL schedule was stated to be based upon a concept of two events per month following the first four events in Nougat. Beyond that four event period device readiness would probably influence the schedule as well as site readiness. It is further stated that an NTS mining and drilling capability must be achieved to meet the present planned schedule and that after attainment it should be maintained regardiess of delay or interruption in test schedules. As for events and experiments in addition to the short term Nougat scheduie the foilowing were noted: an experiment in Dolomite is vital to engineering the high yield sites in the Ul2e and 2 complexes and such an experiment snould be done as soon as practicable and should be included in the mid-range program; two Plowshare cvents per yeur could be accommodated in side drifts of the Ul2b-e or g tunnels as a rather small] addition to the schedules and the Plowshare Wagon event would be accommodated in Area 18. The philosophy for DoD experiments with the exception of Hard Hat and Marshmellow was that they would not be considered in an integrated fashion by the board but would be approved at the Washington level and integrated into the schedules at the field level. Discussion item(2)was to consider the DoD experiments; the board gave attention to the Marshmellow and Hard Hat ! a woo