those security badges necessary to accomplish their mission, from the TG 7.5 pass and badge office as early as is operationally practicable in order to increase the efficiency of the badge office operation and to reduce functional cost. PART 13. - NATURAL DISASTER OR HOSTILE ACTION ALERT PLANS Many directives and bulletins were published by the Joint Task Force Commander, the Atoll Commander, and by TG 7.5 pertaining to plans ofaction in the event of natural disaster or hostile ac- tion. “Mese bulletins described whet constitutes natural disaster and placed upon certain elements of the command the responsibility for determining the type of disaster or hostile action that was imminent. The portion of these plans affecting TG 7.5 placed up- on it the responsibility to protect and safeguard all security information, equipment, materials and utilities systems against loss, destruction, or compromise. The plans included the protec- tion of personnel to the greatest extent possible by recalling fiela parties and assigning personnel to pre-arranged areas, alerting medicel facilities, and preparing all craft for standby in order that evacuation could be accomplished upon notification _from higher authority. These plans are covered in detail in pub- lished bulletins and procecures. CONCLUSIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS The fact that OPERATION CASTLE, in spite of its various complexities, proceeded through all of the pre-operational phases Copleds/DoE LANL, J-Div, -Al- go