A2 - page 10 that the following personnel will be required: headquarters JTF7: 77; task group 7.2: 32; task group 7.3: 90; task group 7.4: .7; for a grand total of 206 personnel." These figures represent a 79% reduction in the number of currently authorized spaces. Furthermore, the DOD NTS support unit would be augmented by about 25 people from field command DASA. To facilitate obtaining any future military support required from the services, it was determined that two permanent task groups, 7.2 and 7.4) should be established similarly to task group 7.3, as recommended by CJTF7 in his 29 November 1958 letter. As for the future status of the proving grounds, the study group determined that the NTS was in the process of roll-up and since the AEC has the responsibility for operating the NTS, no reason was foreseen to change this arrangement, withhold scheduled construction, or curtail military roll-up operations. A sub-committee formed to investigate the feasibility of phasing down the resources in the EPG to a maintenance stand-by status came to the following major conclusions and recommendations which were submitted to the Assistant to the Secretary of Defense (Atomic Energy) and the AEC general manager: |. Consolidation of base camp facilities on Eniwetok Island. 2. Consolidation of AEC and DOD depots. 3. Moth balling facilities and equipment on PARRY Island. 4. Recomputation of heavy construction requirements, scientific stations, and associated equipment maintained in a moth ball status. 5. Boat Pool be reduced in size and the remainder stored in Pear! Harbor or otherwise disposed of. 6. Locally based aircraft be returned.