B MAY 1968
OAPL
SUBJECT:
Funding Requirements for Cleanup of Bikini Atoll
plus unbilled cost will be $585,000, with costs running about $17,000
per week at that time,
Unless the availability of the remaining $700,000
by 1 July 1969 could be assured, it would be necessary to cease operations
not later than 1 June and commence withdrawal of men and equipment, in
order that residual present funding could support that process,
This
would add an estimated $250,000 to the final cost of cleanup when later
resumed,
5,
To avoid costly interruption the Project Manager (Director, DASA)
wili advise tie fiscul officers concerned, pricr to l June, that funds
for continuing cleanup operations beyond 30 June are expected through
one of the following:
The Department of Interior and Related Agencies
Appropriation,
1970;
the Defense Appropriations Act,
1969; or the
provisions of the expected annual Joint Congressional Continuing Resolution,
The specific authority utilized would be dependent on the status of the
passage of these measures by 30 June 1969,
6,
It is recognized,
of course,
that enactment of the Appropriation Law
for the Departnent of the Interior by 1 July 1969 would obviate the use
of the alternatives identified in paragraph 5 above,
7.
(That part of paragraph 5 concerning use of the provisions of the
“Joint Resolution” has been coordinated with appropriate Bureau of the
Budget staff, who concur,
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