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Rocky Flats Plant Site

Administrative and General

General Correspondence - Medicine, Health, and Safety, 1969-1990

Location:

Active:
Inactive: RF-Warehouse 061; DFRC
Access Restrictions: Records are unclassified and may be a Privacy Act System of Records; Warehouse 061 is in an access-controlled area.

 Volume: 49.75 cu. ft.

Accession or Other ID Number:
RF-Warehouse 061:
1) 3/K/5
2) PU&D 812 (2/A/2)
3) PU&D 839 (3/E/4-3/M/4)
4) PU&D 840 (2/B/2)
5) PU&D 985 (3/M/4)

DFRC:
6) 326-74A-0009
7) 326-76A-0125
8) 326-81-0005
9) 430-81-0005
10) 434-82-0001
11) 434-83-0002
12) 434-84-0002
13) 434-86-0003


 Container Number:
1) 54037
2) 6-7
3) 1-35
4) 10-11, 965874-965875
5) 1


6) 8246-8247
7) 704320-704321
8) 225239
9) 914746-914749
10) SB206516-SB206519
11) 324733-324734
12) 223291-223293
13) 324966-324967
Condition: Good to Fair

 Medium: Paper and photographs
Scanning Suitability: Series contains colored paper, computer-generated reports, handwritten notes, oversized blueprints, photocopies, and photographs.

Duplication: Unknown

Arrangement: Chronological by year, thereafter according to the AEC subject file classification system, thereafter chronological by day

Originating Office: Various offices, including the Area Manager's Office, Operations Division, Environment and Safety Division, and Health, Safety, and Environment Division of the AEC, ERDA, and DOE; Dow Chemical Company, Rockwell International, and EG&G; and external agencies

Finding Aids: 1-5) DOE Records Management maintains a folder inventory list for each box; 6-13) NARA Standard Form 135

Disposition Authority: 1-5) Permanent; 6-8) DOE (1980) 16.5c; 9-12) DOE (1980) 16.5b; 13) DOE (1980) 16.5c

Series Description: This series consists of records which were once filed under "Medicine, Health, and Safety" in a central correspondence file maintained successively by the Atomic Energy Commission, Energy Research and Development Administration, and Department of Energy. Included are originals and copies of correspondence; transcripts of public and congressional hearings; meeting minutes; press releases; permit applications; procedures manuals for plant functions and departments; radionuclide inventory data, which lists, by location, amounts of radioactivity released, disposed of, or deposited onsite or offsite; nuclear safety program appraisals; investigations of safety violations; occurrence reports; and photographs of ponds and landfills. This series also contains many reports, including Liquid Wastes and the Nitrate Problem at Rocky Flats, Rocky Flats Site Condition Study-Status Report, Annual Environmental Monitoring Report, Inventory of Pollutants Released to the Environment, Study of Plutonium in Aquatic Systems of the Rocky Flats Environs, Radiation Standards for Protection of the Public, and Building 374 Final Safety Analysis Report. Subjects addressed include air sampling techniques, environmental monitoring activities, employee safety procedures, contaminated soil removal, mortality rates among plutonium workers, toxic waste shipments, the Rocky Flats Environmental Impact Statement, and many more. PU&D 839 (Box 11) contains correspondence and reports relating to the May 1969 fire and subsequent cleanup efforts in Buildings 776 and 777.

Data Elements: 2, 6, 8, 16, 31, 38-39, 81, 83, 88-90, 102-103, 107, 116-119, 121-122, 124


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