a BROOKHAVEN NATIONAL LABORATORY | ASSOCIATED UNIVERSITIES, INC. Upton, New York 11973 (516) 345. ETS 6647 3968 Medical Deparment August 12, 1980. Dr. Bruce W. Wachholz Room F-233, Mail Station E~201 EV~30, GTN 401163 BEST COPY AVAILABLE . U. S. Department of Energy Washington, D. C. 20585 Dear Bruce: I spoke to you early in July about the cost overruns on our FY "BO budget for the Marshall Islands Program and told you I would review carefully the justification for each item before I sent you a letter. I have taken that action, and I now forward to you a request totalling $46,000, which is a hard and well defended figure. You will recall that in November of last year a long memorandum from . Hugh Pratt provided an analysis of the then existing budpet of $583,000 and described $297,000 of additional costs which then appeared to be necessary. On November 14th you and J met with Bili Burr, Hal Hollister, Joe Blair, Vic Bond, and Hugh*Pratt in the Forrestal Building to discuss that budget. The final outcome, as you may remember, was a list of priorities of. add-ons written on the board by Hal Hollister. The order of that priority list and sums involved were the following: Likiap survey for $134,000, upgrading af the medical records $21,000, educational program $57,000, 25 year report $15,000. These four items, totalling $227,000, were given the highest priority. The remaining items were: $29,000 for a third survey, $18,000 for unanticipated administrative costs, $9,000 for travel expenses to be paid by BNL that were previously paid through PASO, $5,000 of additional travel through PASO, and $4,000 for microfisching records. As you knoy, a number of these activities were never carried out, so the present requirement for $46,000 represents only those items which could not be covered, even if some additional funds were made available through the cancellation of several anticipated activities. The.following items represent existing commitments which cannot be covered by the budget remaining for this fiscal year: 1) Tabershaw Contract: This contract was let by It was understood that reimbursement would be BNL at the request of DOE. made for all incurred expenses. To date invoices and indirect costs for These invoices cannot be paid until additional this effort amount to $15,000.