a4 : 3RROUEHAVEN NATIONAL LABORA DRY “ASSOCIATED UNIVERSIIES, INC. Upton, NewYor Ti 4 ee Paper taeont (hia) Bb. 3507 Marceh Mr. W. J. 16, L979 se i Stanley Tar Hith: Tam enclosing a copy of a letter that T found ino uyomall when 1 returned to Brookhaven From ther. y Brown regarding, Che per diem arrange mente for Prost Tercitory personnel) agecompauyiig, the BNi Medical Survey. fo fondo chlie eourents of the detier avite confuniog. tt DT remember vetteettyy oon at Teast tury eee: fan Bob Conor aank yoru Ihad diseussed the ate dard operatiay proceduce estubbished by your olfiee for reimbursement tr Pot. personaed. As Jo understood Che couversathon, you were very reluctant to epprove BNL level per diem for T.T. perseinel on these trips. Bath Bob aie fowere coucerned about @hedtiser@paticy hetWoetthe and in On ceimbursemenefom T.T. personnel and: for BieBersqnnel sand we bnew that they were aware of | this discrepancy. As LT remember it, the final resolution of the prot ylein Ogcurred when : hat we them af'supplemental't Tofficiallyjout of our surveypeneral fund. Ll think we uied the tera "compensatory pay” and ft amounted to an additional $5.00/day at sea the outer islands. the fastruclions of Bob Conard the basis-af immediately those conversations, prior to this trip, and upon these were the rules that £ followed. Canusequently, T paid John Taman and the three terhuideians $70.00 apicee For theii tourteen days on the trip. John Taman never Endicated tome that there was any disagreement with this reimburserent polley. However, {t appears that John talked ta during the short period that Harry was on’Kwajalein following the return of the ship. I-wa's on Kwajalein during that same perlod of time and something as important as this, T feel, should baye been brought to my attention. + Ve oure very & specially John Yi wacafraid that per diuw is of a ucwey feel 9052055 that much dependent upon the cooperation of the T,T. personnel, lawaa, fer the successtul conpletton of these surveys, and the [neremeutal difference between TT... perdtem and BNL suffictent maynitude to make’ the participants of the Last they have been underpaid by a very significant amount. < SSe Directoc Department of Enerpy Pacific Area Support Office P.O. Bos 22939 Huonoluiu, Hawaii 96820