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Personnel Security Questionnaires (PSQs), Inactive Employees, ca. 1949-1992

Location:

Active:
Inactive: ORISE, CER Vault, Room 129

Access Restrictions: Records are unclassified
and may be a Privacy Act System of Records;
ORISE is an access-restricted facility.

Volume: 302 cu. ft.

Accession or Other ID Number: Room
125: 1) None; Room 129: 2) 10021; 3) 10024;
4) 10045; 5) None

 Condition:Good to fair

Container Number: 1) Records are in 218
unnumbered boxes, 100 expandable files, and
22 reading files; 2) SS-5-5, SS-5-6; 3) SS-5-3;
4) SS-15-2; 5) On tops of FC-14 to FC-18;
LF-2; LF-5-3; third, fourth, and fifth shelves
of file cabinet between LF-7 and LF-8; SS-8-2;
SS-8-3; SS-21-1; SS-21-6; SS-22-1; SS-22-6;
SS-23-1; SS-23-6; SS-24-5; SS-24-6; SS-25-4
to SS-25-6; SS-26-4 to SS-26-6; SS-27-4 to
SS-27-6; SS-28-4 to SS-28-6; in boxes marked
PSQs between SS-36 and SS-37

Medium: Paper

Scanning Suitability:Series consists of
faded photocopies with handwritten notes
and microfilm.

Duplication: Unknown
Arrangement: None

Originating Office: Manhattan Engineer District, Atomic Energy Commission, Energy Research and Development Administration, and Department of Energy

Finding Aids: Vault Inventory Database

Disposition Authority: Unscheduled

Series Description: This series contains Personnel Security Questionnaires used by the Manhattan Engineer District, Atomic Energy Commission, Energy Research and Development Administration, and the Department of Energy to collect personal information and conduct background investigations for security clearances on facility workers. The forms provide demographic, lifestyle, and medical information, such as names, present and former addresses, employment histories, memberships and affiliations, race, sex, heights, weights, eye and hair colors, places and dates of birth, social security numbers, military service, arrest histories, previous security clearance information, drinking and drug use histories, and spouse information. The series also includes names, residences, and citizenships of relatives. Forms were collected from the Chicago Operations Office, San Francisco Operations Office, Naval Reactors Office-General Electric, Paducah Gaseous Diffusion Plant, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, National Lead of Ohio (Fernald), Bettis Atomic Laboratory, Nevada Operations Office, Atomic Energy Commission Headquarters, Richland Operations Office, Savannah River Operations Office, Pittsburgh Naval Reactors Office, Brookhaven, Nevada Operations Office, Mallinckrodt Chemical Works, and Harshaw.

Microfilmed questionnaires from 1940 to 1978 from the Nevada Test Site, Oak Ridge, Idaho National Engineering Laboratory, San Francisco Operations Office, and Atomic Energy Commission Headquarters are located in LF-2.

Data Elements: 7-13, 16-18, 20-24, 28, 30, 37, 44

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