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Support Schedule.
Evacuate natives from MAJURO and EBEYE
to destination.
Actual construction was started on 4 March 1957 at PARRY Island
in pre-cutting building materials, pre-casting cisterns and building footings,
and undertaking as much prefabrication as possible.
Eventually the pre-
fabrication at PARRY Island constituted 25% of the total construction project.
On 12 March 1957 representatives of the AEC and Holmes & Narver
accompanied the RONGELAPProject Officer of CINCPACFLT on another
visit to the construction site to evaluate the conditions immediately prior
to the start of work at the site.
On 15 April 1957 a meeting was held in the office of DISTAD, MAJURO, at which procedures and scheduling of construction were clarified.
This meeting resulted in revisions to road plans and agreement on the
installation of cisterns on isolated islands, and the cutting of trees in convenient 4 x 6-foot lengths.
It was also agreed that the District Adminis~-
trator and an agriculturist of the Trust Territory would accompanyfive
members of the RONGELAP Native Council to the construction sites to
advise and act for the native people.
Arrangements were effected for the
support of this group.
On 22 April 1957 Holmes & Narver transmitted a Current Cost Estimate and drawings which had been approved by the AEC Contract Repre~-
sentative on 19 April 1957.
The Current Cost Estimate amounted to
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