D413D (Abridged) DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY COORDINATION AND INFORMATION CENTER Purpose The purpose of the Coordination and Information Center is to: Collect and consolidate, for long term preservation, all historical documents, records, and data dealing with offsite radioactive fallout from all U.S. testing of nuclear devices Provide resources and methods for identification and retrieval of documents based on subject and content Allow access to the collected documents by all interested parties, including the general public. -4 Scope The CIC, as a publicly accessible facility, contains only unclassified documents. Many formerly classified documents have been declassified or sanitized and are included in the CIC collection. There are no classified documents available at or through the CIC. The scope of the collection includes: Data and documentation on the detection and measurement of radioactive fallout and related factors resulting from nuclear device test activities at the Nevada Test Site, the TRINITY event, the Pacific Proving Grounds, and other on-continent test locations “a Policy documents dealing with procedures and conduct of tests and with public safety considerations and actions Published and primary sources describing the development and stateof-knowledge of the health effects of radiation Documents dealing with public information as disseminated through such media as pamphlets, news releases, and news publications Related studies and reports produced by the scientific and technical field. 215