AOR 1 Octeber 15, 1969 Doé7/ PASS REPOSITORY DOokéLiNV £3" , Dr. Robert A. Conard, Chief COLLECTION —— Brookhaven National Laboratory BOX No. “Bi70. MED, DR. COnARD Marshall Islands Medical Studies LAE. eouper Upton, New York 11973 ERDA 22 ZAM nf 1Ge4 Dear Dr. Conard: loagzsas In answering your letter of October 7, 1969, it appears this letter and my letter dated October 6, 1969 crossed in the mail. My letter enclosed a copy of a communication from me to Bob Law proposing a policy and a procedure for support payments to the Marshallese medical patients in connection with your surveys. I believe the proposed policy and procedure could well be applied to the TT employees as well as to the patients. This would mean that the AEC would reimburss the TT for the travel and per diem of TT personnel while they are on official travel status in connection with the AEC Bio-Medical Surveys. I believe reimbursement should be limited to travel and per diem and exclude salaries since I feel the TT itself receives some benefit from their medical personnel participating in the AEC medical surveys. On the basis that the TT personnel would be involved with the survey for about 30 days, we estimate the additional cost to the program would be about $650 per individual ($350 Travel and $300 per diem). Since we are not proceeding with construction of the Bikini WholeBody facility, the FY 70 Bio-Med funds are sufficient to cover the travel and per diem expenses of three or four TT medical personnel on your forthcoming spring survey. BEST COPYAVAILABLE A ®& T aaeecee |e WKStr SURNAME ® |... 2. DATE » 1 Form AEC- 318 (Rey. 9-53) tnnn--- ishy = OFFICE p>» 3- 69 U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE : 1966--O- 214-629