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William K. Streenan
SUBSISTENCE/PER DIEM FOR MARSNALLESE MEDICAL PATIENTS
I may not see you before you take off for Kwajalein and therefore I
want to bring you up to date on the above subject.
Also I enclose
the background information which you gave me on Beptember 9 shortly
before you left on your vacation.
When I was in Las Vegas on September 11 I had a long telephone conversation vith Dr. Conard who wae at Brookhaven. He was in complete
agreement with my thought that the Government should pay for the
transportation and some per diem for these medical patients when
they were required to leave their permanent (or sem{-permanent)
1o0zsac
domiciles to receive medical treatment as recoomended by Dr. Conard.
Ae a matter of fact Bob thought such provisions had been made in the
past and were continuing to be made. I told him that this was not
so. Conard also felt this expense should be borne by the AEC.
Ae I see it, in the example of
the Trust Territory
would provide transportation for her from her home in Rongelap to
Ebeye; the AEC would pay some per diem (amount yet to be determined)
for her stay in Ebeye while she is avaiting transportation to
Kwajalein and thence to Hono and New York; AEC would continue to pay
some per diem until her return to her home base of Rongelap; probably
her per diem rate would be different while she is on the boat froa
Rongelap to Ebeye; while she is in Ebeye; while she {s in travel
status to New York and while she is in New York. Conard seems to
think the ind{vidual ehould get two allowances - one for their
lodging and another for subsistence, f.e., food, incidentals, etc.
I have no strong feeling on thie but I am inelined to think {it would
be much simpler, and probably just as equitable, to pay the individual a flet dafly rate particularly for the time they are on Ebeye.
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