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The supplemental budget estimates for fiscal year 1951, covering proposed new programs and some program changes made subsequent to presentation of the 1931 budget, were developed and after approval by the Cammission were submitted to the Bureau of the Budget., After receiving the Presidential allowance of 260 million dollars, work was started on revision of the justification for submission to the Congress. The budget estimates for fiscal year 1952 were received f r o m all operations offices except one, and review with the program divisions was initiated. and CR-9, Cost Report on Changes in Plant and Equipment, were approved for issuance and distribution. GM bulletins replacing CR-14, Budget and Reporting Classification, Three AEC offices, Oak Ridge, Washington, and Colorado, are adopting the inventory method of determining obligations in place of the more complicated procedure of recording obligatfons incurred and liquithe merging of the Funds and Capital Ledgers. vent obligating in excess of apportionments and limitations, the offices will maintain memorandum records of obligations incurred and w i l l validate contracts before execution. begin simflar simplification in August and New York is moving in that This simplification of obligation accounting is a step toward Where necessary to preHanford Operations Office plans to A inemorandm setting forth instructions and dates for the yearend closing n s issued to operations offices during the month. bulletin on the form and content of financial reports is being drafted. At,meetingswith representatives of the General Accounting Office and the Administrative Managenent Division of the Bureau of the Budget methods of treating depreciation in the accounts and problems concerning the inclusion of depreciation costs in the budget were discussed. It was generally agreed that depreciation should be computed and considered as 811 element of operating costs, but the problem of its relation to budget estimates will require-further study. The policy on accounting for inventories of reactor and other special materials was issued. Representatives of the Washington and mew York Offices met with the Controller and Budget Officer of Associated Universities, Incorporated, June 23, to discuss their plans for instituting campre-
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hensive cost accounting at Brookhaven effective July 1, 1950. tant fomd step. . proposals were completely satisfactory to AEC and represented an imporChicago reports that effective July 1, 1950, Worth American Aviation, Inc., Battelle Memorial Institute, and Iowa State College are adopting the AEC financing plan and accounting systems integrated with that of AEC. The scope of the work of the auditing staff for the first half of fiscal year 1951 was outlined, and audit programs were drafted to cover the various phases of auditing. practices continued during the month. accountability records and met with the General Manager and the Director of Production to discuss the findings reported. Inspections of procurement The Finance Division transmitted its report on the audit.of SF Progress was made in redistributing remaining surplus of scientific equipment and laboratory supplies at the O a k Ridge Operations Office. Such equipment and supplies, having an acquisition value of $115,980, were transferred to other AEC offices and represented substantial cash savings to those offices. , - The Smdia Corporation was authorized through the Director of Military Application to dispose of excess property by methods generally similar to those being followed by Oak Ridge Operations. Arrangements were made f o r relay or exchange of classified communications between the Communications Section of the AEC Washington Office and the Cammunications Center of the Department of the Air Force at the Pentagon. The annual meeting of Records Officers was held in Washington to discuss matters of common interest, work out solutions to problems, and plan work f o r the following year. than vital records was also discussed. Expanding the microfilming to other The proposed AEC transportation and traffic manual and the GM bulletin defining responsibility for transportation and traffic management were circulated to program divisions and field offices for camment.
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The Railway Express Agency has agreed not to apply their latest rate increase of approximately 10 percent to AEC carload shipments mov- e . ing under our Section 22 quotation. April 18, 1950, and will save an estimated $50,000 per year on AEC 'shiprate increases to AEC carload shipments. This decision is retroactive to The Railway Express Agency does not expect to apply any future Hanford Operations Office reports reductions in freight rates charged by transcontinental motor carriers. tions in shipping costs on certain oxides. AT3C entered into negotiations with Aetna Casualty Insurance Company on behalf of the O a k Ridge Operations contractor, Union Casbide and Carbon Corporation. As a result of a survey of Carbide operations by 8 representative of the insurance company, Aetna offered a rate cut of 25 percent for workmen's compensation and 50 percent for public liarates mag result in even greater reductions. Comparisons of Carbide job clssaifications wi€h Tennessee manualI Social Science Research in Atomic brgy6 Late in June the responsibility for maintaining liaison with the various social science research and Bducational bodies was transferred from 'the Division of Public & Technical Information Service to the Finance Division (Reports & Statistics Branch). Numerous requests for infonuation and assistance from these groups have been received, follow-' Ing the 3-aap-conference on June 14-16 of selected social scientists and the staff arranged by FTIS.