Launching a Research Archive for FUSRAP Site Records - 17057
- US Department of Energy Office of Legacy Management, Morgantown, West Virginia (United States)
The US Department of Energy Office of Legacy Management (LM) maintains a broad set of Formerly Utilized Sites Remedial Action Program (FUSRAP) document collections. The LM FUSRAP technical staff regularly needs access to documents contained in these record collections. The majority of the FUSRAP records are maintained in a large paper-based collection in the LM records storage facility. These records cover the period prior to 1997 in which DOE was responsible for the remediation efforts of FUSRAP sites. Other FUSRAP records are maintained as PDF files in LM's record keeping system. LM also maintains FUSRAP information in reference repositories in SharePoint directories and on network drives. The reference collection allows LM to keep abreast of active site remediation by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) since 1997. Searching these FUSRAP collections in its current arrangement can be time-consuming and can result in incomplete searches. In response, LM proactively developed the FUSRAP Document Information System (FDIS) to provide a rapid, single-point search and retrieval system to provide real-time access to reference copies of FUSRAP documents. Each entry in FDIS includes metadata listing the FUSRAP site, document title, date, source collection, and pertinent keywords. More significant entries (e.g., certification documents, site characterization reports, waste manifests) include a PDF scan of the entire document. Each PDF file is processed using an advanced optical character recognition (OCR) tool. The first significant content added to FDIS is 45,000 entries documenting remediation work performed primarily in the early 1990's by Bechtel National, Inc. With the entries in FDIS, technical staff will be able to search the collection by site, category and keyword to quickly locate precise required content. LM records staff are also adding records that document remediation and monitoring work at FUSRAP sites where cleanup activities are considered complete. Documents for completed FUSRAP sites will be processed before documents for sites currently being remediated. In the future, FDIS will be populated with information about FUSRAP sites with ongoing remediation work as they are released to LM stewardship. (authors)
- Research Organization:
- WM Symposia, Inc., PO Box 27646, 85285-7646 Tempe, AZ (United States)
- OSTI ID:
- 22794476
- Report Number(s):
- INIS-US--19-WM-17057
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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