Status of document search and data quality objective efforts
The purpose of this letter report is to document the status of the identification, search, retrieval, evaluation, declassification and availability of (1) Hanford-Site-originated operating information necessary to reconstruct radiation doses and (2) monitoring information indicating concentrations of radioactive materials in the environment. All information needed to date to reconstruct the radiation doses has been identified, sought, retrieved, evaluated, declassified, and made available. Any data needed in the future that have not yet been found will be sought using the same search tree method used to identify the Hanford-Site-originated documents up to now. This search tree method has ensured that the data quality objective of completeness is met. Because there was a centralized list of documents for which we have technical indices the documents through 1964 have been identified, and the document collections are considered as complete as possible. The collection of documents from 1965--1972 is complete for monthly average data but not to the same extent as for the years 1944--1964 where daily and sometimes hourly data are often available and for which a subject index is readily available. From 1965--1972 there were multiple contractors, each maintaining a separate document system with no detailed subject index for retrieval purposes. A HEDR Information Resources Tracking System (HIRTS) database has been established of all documents identified as being of potential interest and/or use to dose reconstruction. The HIRTS contains more than 6000 citations with bibliographic information on each report, document number(s), author(s), title, date, document form (hard copy or microfilm), number of pages, location, public availability, and names of HEDR Project and TSP staff who have requested copies.
- Research Organization:
- Pacific Northwest National Lab. (PNNL), Richland, WA (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- Public Health Service, Washington, DC (United States)
- DOE Contract Number:
- AC06-76RL01830
- OSTI ID:
- 10107852
- Report Number(s):
- PNWD-2047-HEDR; ON: DE93003216
- Resource Relation:
- Other Information: PBD: Oct 1992
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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