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March 16, L979

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Mr. W. J. Stanley
Director
Department of Energy
Pacific Area Supporce O£Fice
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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.

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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.
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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. #

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