Monthly Status and Progress Reports for May 1951 (Partial)

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During the first part of' May allotments of available funds, exThe Fourth Supplemental Appropriation clusive of the amounts included in the Fourth Supplemental Appropriation Bill, were issued to the field, Bill including $39.3 million for AEC was signed by the President onMay 31Staff Paper No, 313/23 was issued on the House Committee action on the 1952 budget and the appeal transmitted to the Senate Appropriations 9: Preliminary estimates of 1953 budget requirements were obtained from the field, consolidated and used In the discussion between the Chairm m and the Director of the Bureau of the Budget on May 28, 1951. Because of the increase in the 1952 est;imates and the probability that AEC would be operating under deficiency conditions, the Director of the Bureau of the Budget recommended that a supplemental estimate for 1952 be submitted duping June. the program divisions, preliminary instructions for preparing the 1932 supplemental budget were issued, After a meeting with representatives of A budget circular was drafted setting forth the provisions and an analyeis of section I210 of General Appropriation Act 1930. cover6 transfers of funds from one appropriation to another or to a A memorandum was issued to Finance Directors to get uniformity in reporting the estimaked uncollectible accounts of AEC and its cost-type A joint survey was conducted with SFOO to develop general plans ;i and principles for the production cost accounting program. problems were discussed with OR00 representatives, The plan and Representatives of Washington, mY00, and COO started work on detemining thorium costs so that the operations offices could establish inventories as of June 30, 19510 ha6 been accounted for and reported as a special ir;ventory item instead of being expensed like other SF materials, This is the first time that thorium Negotiations with insurance carriers and contractor representatives were conducted for the prime contracts with the University of California, California Research and Development Company, Phillips Petroleum, and

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Reports were completed and transmitted on an inquiry into procurement practices at SROO, inspection of motor vehicld operation at mP00, and a second inspection of procurement practices at Brookhaven. tions of commissary facilities at Argonne and Berkeley were completed. AEC representatives conferred with the Assistant Controller of Che Defense Department on the problem of auditing AEC working funds with other A memorandum was distributed to operations offices giving introductory information on the GAO comprehensive audit. Annual Financial Report The annual financial report for 1950 vas discuased at a COmmiSSiOII A declassified version of the report has been preparedmeeting on May 2. for Issuance as e part of the Tenth Sem lmu al Report. The Progress Reports and Statistics Branch is coordinating the preparation of a reply to a letter from the Joint Committee asking eight questions about basic policies of major operating programs. In response toa form inquiry, a letter to the Chaim n of the Subcommittee on Public Accounts of the Committee on Expenditures in Executive Departments aet forth overall expenditure data and employment statistics for the last 3 years and referred to public documents that describe AEC methods of operation and list management surveys conducted by The chief real estate negotiations during the month related to acquisition of land for the S a n Francisco Area Officeg lease of' space in the Dravo Shipyard at Wilmington for SROO; condemnation of land inMcCracken County, Kentucky, for the Paducah project; renewal of condemned leaseholds on a number of tracts required by HOO; renewal of a lease at Durango, Colorado, for M O O , and objections to Bill 3096 which provides that the Committee on Armed Services of the Senate and House must review all transactions involving acquisition and disposition of land, interests, etc., by the Army, Navy, Air Force, and Federal Civil Defense AdminisAEC was represented at several conferences on Government procureDepartment5 (2) a meeting on complying w i t h the HOU6e Committee's request (1) a school on control of' materials by the Commerce

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discussions on property management and property accounting conducted by the Society for the Advancement of Management) (4) a meeting with representatfves of the Ordnance Department to develop interagency agreements on loans of equipment; and (5) a traffic-management conference attended by representatfves of operations offices and contractors at which the problem of integrating procurement with traffic management was considered. l?egotiations were conducted to obtain aircraft for use in prospecting in New Mexico asd Southern Colorado. getting Air Force support for the work of the Geological Survey's Alaskan Negotiations were also started on An analysis of stores inventory reports from operations offices was made and the resulting recommendations and comments were transmitted to the appropriate program divisions, Approximately $'jO,OOO worth of machine tools located at Vancouver, Washington, were obtained Fpom the U. S . Maritime Commission on a loan basis for HOOP At the request of the National Production Authority, a memorandum This material will to all Managers of Operations requested that they report all accumulations of scrap iron and steel in lots of 100 tons or over. be allocated to the steel mills where it is urgently needed. %chase orders have been issued for all motor vehicle6 authorized within the lhitation (500) f o r the fiscal year. Engineeying plans for telephone facilities to serve the Santa Fe Regional Office at Albuquerque were completed and installation was Flats plant led to a reduction in the charges proposed by the telephone company as the Commission was ready to explore the possibility of substituting multichannel radio circuits at that site. Negotiations for intercmunication facilities at the Rocky Teletypewriter and cryptographic facilities were being arranged for the Kentucky Area Office and the Sarn Francisco Office. Seven employees have cmpleted training in the mechanics of operating microfilm reproduction equipment,