ENCLOSURE
re UNITED STATES
ATOMIC ENERGY COMMISSION
WASHINGTON 25, D. C.
June 3, 1960
Go"Mr Douglas! letter of May 16, 1960*, in which
there is no longer a need to retain the Eniwetok
8.8 nuclear test facility, and stated a DOD
the area as an addition bo|the Pacific Missile
1bug acy: Operations Office of the Atomic Energy
he¥ purposeof: preparing a plan for the orderly
“equipment to the DOD, Also, I concur
acific Missile Range negotiate with
/
erate the facility for the Department of
have
netructed the Director of Military Application to
fundertaké with such representative DOD agency as you may designate,
‘the: formulation of a written agreement between the AEC and the
‘DOD:
EPG,)
which will provide’for the interdepartmental transfer of the
its facilities and equipment,
We would intend to include in
ithe -agreement recognition in prinoiple that the AEC could use the
EPG for.any activity which 1¢ might later need to conduct there
4f it: is accomplished without cost to the DOD, and without inter‘ference: with your essential activits es there,
Sincerely yours,
/8/ John A, MeCone
John ‘A McCone
Chairman
Enclosure IT