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Possible postponement of operational date of HKBCG

the future

implications the about You asked operational date (April 1996) of was postponed. This, I think, will be considered in the

if the the future HKBCG

we draw up the

At this stage, we future HKBCG

context of contingency plans when comprehensive plan for the transfer. shall work on the assumption that the would be operational in April 1996 as scheduled.

Transfer of UK-related records

I explained to you, the segregation of As

accordance with the UK-related microfilm records. in

include the resources

UK proposals made in March 1992 (Appendix 1), would require an estimated resource of about 320 man-years. This does for the segregation of not include 3,000 back-up spools of mixed UK and non-UK records, space and equipment requirements and the computer programming efforts for the segregation of the computer indexing system.

about

We are in the process of proposing to your side

which will only entail segregation arrangements which will 83 man-years. (Like the UK proposal, this does not include the resources for the segregation of 3,000 back-up spools, space and equipment required for the segretation and the computer programming efforts, details of which will have to be worked out later.)

have I

seen the practical Both you and segregation work which will need to be done and we were both concerned about the complexity and enormity of the problem. I am very pleased that you are inclined to agree to our suggestion that a better alternative has to be found to deal with this problem. On the basis of this common understanding, I shall be replying Appendix I shortly with an alternative recommendation mainly based on what we have discussed.

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