Vv _ BROOKHAVEN NAHONAL LABORA: ORY . | ASSOCIATED UNIVERSITIES, INC. at go Upton, Naw York 14443 . Parco! Gepeutrricnt (O16) dd S977 March 16, L979 ~ j» Mr. W. J. Stanley Director Department of Energy Pacific Area Supporce O£Fice 96820 fear BLil: T am enclosing a copy of a Leteer that T found ino aycinihl when 7 returned to Brookhaven from Harcy Brown reparding, the per diem arvanyements For Trase Territory personne) accompanying, the BNL, Medical Survey. {SS, 22939 Hunoluiu, Hawaii o & P.O. Bux Po fied the couftents of the Letter quite confuniog. tl oC reacmber vocree)et iy, on at beast Cue oceistons Bob Conrad aie you dia diseunsed the stanlard operatiag, proceduce established by your offices for redinbursenent or Tet. personued. As do ouiderstoad the couversatlon, yeu were very reluctant tu “pprove BNL level per diem for Tet. perseanel on these trips. Both Bob aad fo weee concerned about therdiserépiicy berWoenk the ceimburcsemantefo me T.T. personnel. and: for.BNl@persannelsand we knew that they were aware of As LT remember it, the final resolution of the problem this discrepancy. eccurred when fyouTsugcested that we pay them af'supplemental income/un Vofficiallyjout ofour survey peneral fund. TF think we wied the corm "SOipensatory pay” and it amounted toa an additional $$.00/day at sea and in the outer islands. On the basis of those conversations, and upon the instructions of Bob Conard inmediately prior to this trip, Chese were the rules that [ followed. Consequently, tT paid John tanan and the three technicians $70.00 apiece for their fourteen days on the trip. John Taman never dnadieated to me that there was any disagreement with this reluburse- ment poltey. However, ft appears that John talked ¢ during the short veriod that Marry was on’ Kwajatetn Collowlng the return of the ship. T was on Kwajalein during that same pertod of time and something as important as this, 1 feel, should have been brought to my attention. ~ We ure very much dependent upon the ceoperation of especially John lawman, for the successful complectoa of the T.7. persounel, these surveys, and Tam wPradd that the Ineremental differences between Toh. pevdtem and BNL per diew is of a suffictent magnitude to make’ the participants of the last survey feel that they have been underpald by a very sipniftcant amount. # “coer 1?