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RECOMMENDATION
15. The General Manager recommends that the Atomic Energy
Commission:
a. Approve, for the purpose of guidance to the weapons
laboratories and other agencies involved in the planning
for Operation HARDTACK, the general scope of the test
program, described in paragraph ll, of approximately 27
shots;
b. Note that the occupancy and use of Taongi Atoll as
a firing site, in addition to Eniwetok and Bikini, would
reduce fallout problems and minimize the length of test
operations in the Facific.
c. Approve a request for DOD comment on the desirability
of occupancy and use of Taongi Atoll, and the feasibility
of DOD support of such occupancy and use by letter to the
MLC such as Appendix "c".
ad. Note that the actual test program for Operation
HARDTACK will be presented to the Commission for consideration at a later date,
e. Note that the test program outlined above and
assuming the use of Taongi will require approximately
$10.0 million over the 34.7 million budgeted for
overseas tests in FY 1958, and that this increase wtll
have to be absorbed within the $452.3 million budgeted
for the weapons program for FY 1958 in estimates
submitted to Congress.
be thus absorbed,
If the additional cost cannot
the test program will be rescoped,
f. Note that it is not deemed appropriate to notify
the JCAE at this time.
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