[#22] Black-budget contingency reserve for medium-scale leak response, mass amnestics, settlements and emergency operations.

[#7, #14, #16, #23] Isolation/test chamber retrofit, initial specialized bio-research lab setup, training program development, and therapeutic-program initial trial setup.

[#3, #4, #5, #7, #8, #15, #19, #20] Fleet (4 unmarked vehicles), initial cover/disguise stock, forensic kit, CRT displays, mobile incinerator, initial medical/specialized kits, CRT stockpile, initial audit tools.

[#12] Initial retainer and setup for legal/cover operations and plausible deniability mechanisms.

[#6] New dedicated secure locker / modest CAPEX for Site storage or vault construction.

[#18] One-time seed fund for psychological remediation / relocation support at program start.

[#1, #2, #10, #13, #17, #20, #21] Field agents and route teams (targeted baseline), monitoring analysts, rapid-response team salaries, internal security/CI staff, and senior/admin oversight (0.2–0.5 FTE). Note: alternative blanket-search staffing budgets (see scenarios / #2) are not included in this baseline figure.

[#14, #23] Ongoing scientific/medical research, lab operations, clinical-trial-style work (baseline research budget).

[#12, #13] Annual legal/cover retainer and online takedown / legal contingency support.

[#22] Annual replenishment/reserve allocation to maintain a ready contingency fund for escalations.

[#9, #10, #18, #11] Secure medical containment costs for an assumed baseline average of 2 SCP-3350-1 detainees (per-detainee annual cost midpoint ~$185k, includes security, medical staff, housing, monitoring).

[#15] Imaging access (CT/MRI), pathology services, blood banking and related recurring medical service costs.

[#11] Class A/B amnestic administration and monitoring for baseline witness counts and released subjects (baseline assumed moderate witness load).

[#23] Ongoing program costs if therapeutic rollout pilot continues (clinical follow-up, device/equipment upkeep per-agent).

[#4, #5, #8, #19, #24] Cover material rotation, chain-of-custody consumables, per-destruction event testing/consumables, CRT scarcity resupply premium, and general consumables/PPE.

[#3, #5, #17] Vehicle fuel & maintenance, evidence transport, medevac retainer and discrete logistics for rapid response.

[#16] Annual refresher trainings, SOP recertification and small-scale exercises.

[#20] Recurring internal-audit / CI tooling subscriptions and recurring CI operations costs.

[#6, #7, #24] Inventory management and environmental control for storage, test-chamber maintenance, and small facility overhead.