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Operating costs under your projected estimates are up from $107.7 million in 

 fiscal year 1967 to $239.4 million by fiscal year 1973. Your capital equipment 

 goes up from $21.4 to $47.4 million. Construction obligations, new obligational 

 authority, goes up from $51.8 to $64.2 million. These are annual expenditures, of 

 course. 



What it amounts to is that it more than doubles. It goes up from $180.9 mil- 

 lion to $351 million in the next 6 years, which is nearly double.^ 



In the background was the 1,000-Bev accelerator, concept research 

 for Avhich was already underway. Dr. McDaniel told the JCAE that 

 the 1969 budget contained an item of $900,000 "earmarked for gen- 

 eral advanced accelerator studies * * *." He noted that work on the 

 200-Bev accelerator had inspired a reexamination of plans for the 

 longer range future: '"* * * as to precisely what the second step 

 should be. Should it be 600 to 1,000 Bev, should it be higher, should 

 it be something a little different ? "' ^* 



By the latter part of the calendar year 1968, work was proceeding 

 on the construction of the 200-Bev accelerator at Weston, 111. Fund- 

 ing for studies in design of the macliine had been available since 

 late in 1963; $7,333 million had been authorized for architecture and 

 engineer work in the fiscal year 1968; and some $12 million for 

 further architecture-engineering and some construction work in the 

 fiscal year 1969. At the end of 1968, in the face of many claims on the 

 National Treasury for military' and nomnilitary programs, for social 

 and technical undertakings, for applied and basic science, high-energy 

 physics remained as it had been for more than two decades a major 

 national effort of high quality in basic research, with questioned rel- 

 evance for other national programs of research or teclinology. 



23AEC authorizing legislation, fiscal year 1969, pt. 2, op. cit, p. 1026. 

 '* Ibid., p. 1038. 



