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Timeline of Major OCAS Events

Establishing the foundation for conducting dose reconstructions as required under the Energy Employees Occupational Illness Compensation Program Act (EEOICPA) has been an important and busy time for our Office. Major events of our dose reconstruction program for 2006 are listed below.

2007 Events

January Rocky Flats Plant: Technical Information Bulletins--External Coworker Dosimetry Data for the Rocky Flats Plant revised

Documents Covering Both AWE and DOE Facilities: Page change revision to Technical Information Bulletin: Parameters to Consider When Processing Claims for Construction Trade Workers

Nevada Test Site: Page change revision to Site Profile--Occupational External Dose section

Idaho National Laboratory: Revision to Site Profile--Occupational Medical Dose section

Paducah Gaseous Diffusion Plant: revision to the Occupational Internal Dose section of the Site Profile

Hanford: Page change revision to the Internal Dosimetry Coworker Data for the Hanford Site TIB

February Rocky Flats Plant: revisions to the Site Description, Occupational Internal Dose, and Occupational External Dose sections of the Site Profile

Pantex Plant: revisions to the Occupational Medical Dose and Occupational Internal Dose sections of the Site Profile

Documents Covering Both AWE and DOE Facilities: Two new TIBs--(1) Estimating Doses for Plutonium Strongly Retained in the Lung and (2) Internal Dose Reconstruction

DOE Complex Wide Documents: TIB--Maximum Internal Dose Estimates for Certain DOE Complex Claims revised

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory: TIB--Internal Dosimetry Coworker Data for Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory approved

Portsmouth Gaseous Diffusion Plant Site Profile: Introduction section revised

March Area IV of the Santa Susana Field Laboratory (formerly listed as ETEC) Site Profile: Occupational Environmental Dose section revised

Rocky Flats Plant Technical Information Bulletins: External Coworker Dosimetry Data for the Rocky Flats Plant revised

April Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL) Site Profile: Site Profile for the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory revised

Paducah Gaseous Diffusion Plant Site Profile: Introduction section revised

AWE Site Wide Documents: Appendix G -- Anaconda Co., Appendix Q -- Allegheny-Ludlum Steel Company, and Appendix R -- Aluminum Company of America--Pennsylvania (Alcoa 1) approved for the Site Profile for Atomic Weapons Employers that Worked Uranium and Thorium Metals

May Argonne National Laboratory--West Site Profile: Introduction, Occupational Internal Dose, and Occupational External Dose sections revised

Documents Covering Both AWE and DOE Facilities: Fission and Activation Product Assignment for Internal Dose-Related Gross Beta and Gross Gamma Analyses approved

Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) Site Profile: Introduction, Site Description, and Occupational Internal Dose sections revised

Paducah Gaseous Diffusion Plant Site Profile: Site Description section revised

Pantex Plant Site Profile: Introduction and Site Description sections revised

Hanford Site Profile: Introduction and Site Description sections revised

Los Alamos National Laboratory Site Profile: Occupational External Dose section revised

AWE Site Wide Documents: Appendix BO -- LaPointe Machine & Tool Co. and Appendix BL -- Jessop Steel Co. approved for the Site Profile for Atomic Weapons Employers that Worked Uranium and Thorium Metals

June Hanford Site Profile: Occupational Environmental Dose, Occupational Internal Dose, and Occupational External Dose sections revised

Argonne National Laboratory--West (ANLW) Site Profile: Site Description and Occupational Environmental Dose sections revised

AWE Site Wide Documents: Appendix AA -- Hooker Electrochemical approved for the Site Profile for Atomic Weapons Employers that Refined Uranium and Thorium

Blockson Chemical Company: Technical Basis Document for Atomic Energy Operations at Blockson Chemical Company, Joliet, Illinois revised

Idaho National Laboratory Site Profile: Occupational External Dosimetry section revised

Mallinckrodt Chemical Co., Destrehan St. Plant: Basis for Development of an Exposure Matrix for the Mallinckrodt Chemical Company St. Louis Downtown Site and the St. Louis Airport Site, St. Louis, Missouri revised

Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) Site Profile: Occupational Medical Dose section revised

Paducah Gaseous Diffusion Plant Site Profile: Occupational Medical Dose section revised

Y-12 Plant Site Profile: Occupational Medical Dose section revised

AWE Site Wide Documents: Appendix BB -- General Steel Industries approved for the Site Profile for Atomic Weapons Employers that Worked Uranium and Thorium Metals

Ames Laboratory Site Profile: approved

Sandia National Laboratory Site Profile: approved

Oak Ridge Gaseous Diffusion Plant (K-25 Site) Site Profile: Occupational Environmental Dose section revised

Pantex Plant Site Profile: Occupational Internal Dose, Occupational Environmental Dose, and Occupational External Dose sections revised

Nevada Test Site's Site Profile: Occupational Medical Dose section revised

Y-12 Plant TIBs: Historical Evaluation of the Film Badge Dosimetry Program at the Y-12 Plant in Oak Ridge, Tennessee: Part 3 - Beta Radiation approved

Mound Plant TIBs: Internal Dosimetry Coworker Data for the Mound Site approved

West Valley Demonstration Project Site Profile: Approved for use in dose reconstruction--document was not posted to the Web site because there was a typographical error. The document was posted in August 2007 after the typographical error was corrected.

July Argonne National Laboratory--West (ANLW) Site Profile: Occupational Medical Dose section revised

Idaho National Laboratory Site Profile: Occupational Internal Dose section revised

Nevada Test Site's Site Profile: Occupational External Dose section revised

Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) Site Profile: Occupational Environmental Dose section revised

August Rocky Flats Plant Site Profile: Occupational External Dose section revised

Harshaw Chemical Company: An Exposure Matrix for the Harshaw Chemical Company, Cleveland, Ohio approved

Idaho National Laboratory Site Profile: Site Description and Occupational Environmental Dose sections revised

Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL or X-10) Site Profile: Site Description section revised

Rocky Flats Site Profile: Occupational Internal Dose section revised

Stanford Linear Accelerator Center Site Profile: revised

West Valley Demonstration Project Site Profile: page change revision

Portsmouth Gaseous Diffusion Plant Site Profile: Page change revision to the Occupational External Dose section

September Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) Site Profile: Revision to the Occupational External Dose section

Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL or X-10) Site Profile: Revision to the Occupational External Dose section

October Allied Chemical Corporation Site Profile revised

Nevada Test Site's Site Profile: Site Description section revised

Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) Site Profile: Introduction section revised

Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL or X-10) Site Profile: Occupational Medical Dose and Occupational Internal Dose sections revised

Rocky Flats Plant Technical Information Bulletins (TIBs):

Technical Information Bulletin (TIB) 39: Internal Dosimetry Coworker Data for the Hanford Site revised

Technical Information Bulletin (TIB) 27: Supplementary External Dose Information for Rocky Flats cancelled

Technical Information Bulletin (TIB) 50: Use of Rocky Flats Neutron Dose Reconstruction Project Data in Dose Reconstructions cancelled

Technical Information Bulletin (TIB) 58: External Coworker Dosimetry Data for the Rocky Flats Plant cancelled

Technical Information Bulletin (TIB) 6: Interpretation of External Dosimetry Records at Savannah River Site (SRS) revised

Technical Information Bulletin (TIB) 8: Use of ICRP 66 to Calculate Respiratory Tract Doses revised

Technical Information Bulletin (TIB) 7: Neutron Exposures at the Savannah River Site revised

November Technical Information Bulletin (TIB) 38: Internal Dosimetry Coworker Data for Rocky Flats Environmental Technology Site cancelled

Y-12 Plant Site Profile: Site Description section revised

Technical Information Bulletin (TIB) 54: Fission and Activation Product Assignment for Internal Dose-Related Gross Beta and Gross Gamma Analyses--page change revision

Blockson Chemical Company: Technical Basis Document for Atomic Energy Operations at Blockson Chemical Company, Joliet, Illinois revised

December PER 29: Hanford TBD Revisions approved

PER 30: Savannah River Site TBD Revisions approved

PER 31: Y-12 TBD Revisions approved

PER 32: Nevada Test Site TBD Revisions approved

TIB 49: Estimating Doses for Plutonium Strongly Retained in the Lung revised

Page last updated: December 20, 2007

Page last reviewed: May 30, 2008

Content Source: National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)

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