OFFICE OF THE MANAGER ANNOUNCEMENT NO. 3 Spring 1955 Continental Atomic Tests (Section 2, continued) Deputy for Military Operations Colonel H. E. Parsons Director, Weapons Effects Tests, Field Command/ AFSWP Support Director Mr. Seth R. Woodruff, Jr., Manager of the AEC's Las Vegas Field Office (wall act as Test Manager during absences of Manager) 3. The Test Organization will assume operational status on Febru- ary 1, 1955, with its headquarters at Mercury, (Nevada Test Site) Nevada, and will remain operative until the test series is terminated by direction of the Manager, Santa Fe Operations, U. S. AEC. «. During the operational period, until formal termination, the Test Manager will report directly to the Director of Military Application, U. S. Atomic Energy Commission, Washington, D. C., on the general conduct of the test and to the Department of Defense and the Federal Civil Defense Administration on matters concerning their rarticipatior. He will, however, continue to be responsible to the Manager, Santa Fe Operations, U. S. AEC, with respect to all admin- istrative and long-range aspects of the operation of the Nevada Test Site and for activities not directly related to the Spring 1955 Nuclear Test Series. 5. During the operational period the Manager, Las Vegas Field Office, will report to the Test Manager except that in his role of administrator of ail AEC contracts within the Las Vegas Field Office and for matters not pertaining to the full-scale test, he will continue to be responsible to the Manager, Santa Fe Operations. 6. For the duration of the operation, all personnel of the Test Division, SFO, «ill report to the Test Manager. Personnel of other Divisio xs of Santa Fe Operations and all cost-type contractors assigned to temporary duty to the Test Organisation at the request of _Sammary 27, 1955 FY Page 2 Sk Be ws . : . . : .