other Government agencies including the U. S. Weather Bureau, U. S. Public Health Service, U. S. Geological Survey, U. &. Bureau of Mines and U. S. Coast and Geodetic Survey, (b) contracts with consulting organizations such as Roland F. Beers, Inc., Alexandria, Virginia, Hazelcron-Nuclear Science Corporation, Palo Alto, California and Holmes &Narver, Inc., Los Angeles, California, and (c) individual consultants. The total annual expenditure for the operational and research studies directed toward safety at the Nevada Test Site currently is over $8,000,000. In addition, there are numerous programs carried on as part of the laboratories scientific effort that have a bearing on safety and contribute greatly to the basic understandings. Also, in May 1963 a new Biology Division at the Lawrence Radiation Laboratory at Livermore, California was formed with one of its prime missions to investigate problems dealing directly and indirectly with radicactive fallout, especially iodine. ~) S\ 52.