The United States and Israel signed a memorandum this weekend concerning previously announced arrangements to make a feasibility study pertaining to a combination power-desalting plant in Israel. The agreement was signed for the United States by Kenneth Holum, Assistant Secretary of Interior for Water and Power Development, and James T. Ramey, Commissioner of the Atomic Energy Commission. Ambassador Avraham Harman signed for Israel. The signing ceremony took place at the Department of the Interior.
The agreement covers administrative and supervisory arrangements for a jointly financed study to be undertaken by Kaiser Industries, Inc., Oakland Calif., with the Catalytic Construction Co. of Philadelphia, as subcontractor. The estimated cost is $340,000, to be shared equally. Completion of the study is expected by October 1965.
The study is part of the United States-Israel joint water desalination program, recommended by a team of American and Israeli experts in pursuance of plans envisaged by President Johnson last June, when Israeli Prime Minister Levi Eshkol visited Washington.
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