General Information

The Reading Room is located in the Consolidated Information Center of the Washington State University/Tri-Cities Branch Campus, along with the Hanford Technical Library.
The Reading Room is open Monday through Friday from 10am until 5pm (Pacific Standard Time). Staff is available during these hours to assist patrons in utilizing the collection.
A photocopier and microfiche reader/printer are available for making copies. If extra copies are on hand, these are given away at no charge. If a copy needs to be made, a duplication fee of 10 cents per page is charged. It is the Reading Room's policy to require payment in advance before sending out copies of any document.
A public access computer is provided for searching the Internet for Hanford and Department of Energy (DOE) related information.
The collection contains over 45,000 items. These are primarily technical and administrative reports created by DOE and its contractors from the 1943 founding of the Hanford Site to the present. The Reading Room does NOT contain every report ever written at Hanford, but the staff is happy to assist users in trying to locate Hanford publicly available documents not in the Reading Room.
Materials in the Reading Room collection do not circulate; they cannot be checked out or borrowed through Interlibrary Loan.
The Reading Room does not subscribe to any journals.
The Richland Reading Room was established in 1976. It is one of approximately 20 DOE Public Reading Rooms located throughout the country in communities near major DOE facilities.
See the DOE Headquarters website for information on how to file a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request.
Information on how to file a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request for Hanford materials is available on the Hanford website.

To file a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request for Hanford materials use the following address:

U.S. Department of Energy
FOIA Officer, A7-75
P.O. Box 550
Richland, WA 99352