Board will be designed in accordance with the approved
operational safety criteria.
An expert Advisory Panel will
make recommendations to the Test Manager on the advisability
of executing or delaying each detonation, and the Test Manager
will adjust shot schedules as necessary.
If deletions of shots
from PILGRIM are advised by the Planning Board the Test Manager
will forward the recommendation to DMA.
A pertial result of
their study to date is attached as Appendix "c".
STAFF JUDGMENTS
ll. The Divisions of Biology and Medicine, and Finance
and the Office of the General Counsel concur in the recommendation of this paper.
coneurs
in the public
The Division of Information Services
information judgments reflected
in the
recommendation.
CONCLUSIONS
12.
Plan I could not be adopted without a serious
impact
on the weapons developments, and effects programs and con-
siderable interference with current DOD commitments.
Plan II
could be adopted with some effect on the Weapons program and
with possibly a months extension of Operation HARDTACK.
III could be accomplished without
Plan
these difficulties.
RECOMMENDATION
13. The General Manager recommends that the Atomic Energy
Commission:
a. Approve conducting Operation PILGRIM as outlined
in Plan Ill of paragraph 2 above and in paragraph 4
(page 16) of Appendix "A";
b. Note that under
Plan III Operation PILGRIM
becomes one continuous operation at the Nevada Test Site
starting about May 1,
1957 and continuing until October,
1957, which is a change from the two Phase operation
authorized for PILGRIM in AEC 944.