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Mr. Charles C. Campbell, Area Manager
Leos Alanos Area Cirfice
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Los Alamos,‘ New Mexico
Dear Mr. Campbell:
BEST COPY AVAILABLE
Attached £s a statenent of the salary, vase, travel and subsistence
policies which LASL proposes to use during any operational periods at the
Pacifie Proving Grounds.
These policies are basically the same as those used fer Operaticn
Dominic in 1962, which were found to be genevally satisfactory.
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our Dominic experience, and on about 15 years of previous test oxverience,
we are proposing two changes from the Dominic plan, both haying to do with
the Differential Allowance. (le prefer "differential" to "icolction" since
considerations other than "isolation" justify the allowance; i.a.,. absence
from home, extra expense at homa when the man of the house is avay, un~
pleasant or uncomfortable surroundings at some duty posts, ctc.)}
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‘The changes
1. Elimination of the 30 day minimum duty period to qualify for
the differential allowance. Prior to Deminic, wa had never used
a minim qualifying period in any of the several extra compensation plans we had used, and we agreed to its inclusion at Doninic
only under protest and because the crash nature of the operation
did not allow lengthy negotiationa. We insisted at that time on
a right to meke exceptions to the 30 day minimm period, and many
exceptions were approved. The only reasoneble justification for
. 6 miniowm duty period of this kind is to exclude short-term
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observera and other non-vorking visitors froma the extra compensa=
tion. This goal cen be eccomplished in a much more equitable and
£lexible manner by use of administrative discretion, which is the
Standard tool LASL has always used. In all past operations, we
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have had employees at the proving grounds who were not receiving
extra compensation simply because it had been decided by their
supervisors that the nature of their participation did not
.Warrent it, During Dominic, when we had a minimm qualifying
period, equity required many exceptions to the rule, all made
through use of administrative discretion, thus demonstrating again
that a fixed qualifying period cannot substitute for thoughtfed
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