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U.S. National Archives and Records Administration

U.S. NATIONAL ARCHIVES AND RECORDS ADMINISTRATION
SOUTHEASTERN REGION FEDERAL ARCHIVES AND RECORDS CENTER

East Point, Georgia

Many records from the Oak Ridge National Laboratory have been transferred by the Oak Ridge Field Office (OR) and Martin Marietta Energy Systems, Inc. (formerly Union Carbide) to the Federal Records Center in East Point, Georgia, near Atlanta.

In 1966, the Federal Records Center (FRC) accessioned Oak Ridge records. In the process, all classified documents were removed from their original folders--thus destroying the integrity of the records. In 1971-1972, the classified material itself was split up for declassification purposes during the Comprehensive Classification Review Project (CCRP). The classified records were kept at Oak Ridge while the newly declassified records went to the East Point records center. Later, when the 1971-1972 declassification procedures were found wanting, the declassified records at East Point were returned to Oak Ridge. It is therefore difficult to determine if specific records are at Oak Ridge or at East Point. At present, OR and DOE's Office of Safeguards and Security are working to approve the East Point facilities as a repository for DOE classified information. If such approval is forth-coming, these materials will be sent to East Point for permanent storage.

More recently, both the Oak Ridge Field Office and Martin Marietta have sent shipments to East Point. For example, in 1988, OR transferred 347 cubic feet of records to the FRC facility.

Although the highest classification for these documents is unknown, the great majority of them are unclassified.

DESCRIPTION

TOTAL SIZE (FEET)

POTENTIALLY RELEVANT (FEET)

HIGHEST CLASSIFICATION

VALUE

Records of the Research Medicine Division, Oak Ridge Field Office 199 50 Unknown Useful to Peripheral
Official Correspondence of Feed Materials Division, Oak Ridge Field Office 325 Unknown Unknown Useful to Peripheral
Files of Laboratory and University Divisions, Oak Ridge Field Office 3 Unknown Unknown Useful to Peripheral
Records of the Assistant Manager for Public Education, Oak Ridge Field Office 95 Unknown Unknown Useful to Peripheral
Administrative Correspondence, Oak Ridge Field Office 182 Unknown Unknown Useful to Peripheral

CONTACT

Mr. Charles Reeves, Assistant Director
National Archives - Southeastern Region
1557 St. Joseph Avenue
East Point, GA 30344

(404) 763-7477

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