Idaho National Engineering Laboratory (INEL) 
 
SERIES TITLE Phillips Petroleum Company, Operations Office,  
             Radioactive Waste and Release Files 
 
 
INCLUSIVE DATES 1951 1977 
 
 
ARRANGEMENT Roughly chronological 
 
 
VOLUME 3 cubic feet 
 
 
DESCRIPTION 
This series contains records related to the Phillips Petroleum 
Company radiation exposures, radioactive waste, and litigation. 
Types of documents include the following: Operations 
Office notes (1975); Boaz folder containing information on 
Boaz v. Phillips Petroleum Co. litigation; Special Badge Pulls 
for all Idaho Chemical Processing Plant (CPP) visitors (1973); 
Phillips Petroleum Company correspondence (1951 1959) discussing 
radiation exposure and release incidents including 
write-ups for safety and a facility map; RaLa iodine release, 
including reference to thyroid counter during RaLa run; 1957 
correspondence of A.L. Ayers, Assistant CPP Production Superintendent, 
Atomic Energy Division; Radioactive Waste Report 
(monthly from 1965 to 1971); radioactive waste from 1953 to 
1971 including stack monitor data sheets; Waste Calcining 
Facility Off-Gas Samples (1-1-68); Onsite Radioactive Materials 
Shipment Records (1974); Stack Monitoring Notes 1960 1961; 
Radioactive Waste Forms (1977); and Stack Sample Analytical 
Data. A folder in box 24474 entitled "Boaz Impressions from 
the Witness Chair" discusses the suit charging Phillip Petroleum Co., 
(Boaz v. Phillips Petroleum Company) with release 
of radioactivity and radiation causing leukemia, as well as 
the need to keep good logbooks at facilities. This folder 
includes depositions of John Horan, Charles M. Boaz, and 
Denzel K. Jenson in this case. A rough box contents listing 
is available for the three boxes.  
 
 
LOCATION OF RECORDS 
Federal Records Center 
Seattle, WA 98115