Sources and Types of Information The CIC began document collection in the fall of 1979. collected an estimated 125,000 documents. Since then it has Collection activities are con- tinuing, and it is anticipated that approximately 200,000 documents will ultimately be included in the collection. To date, document have been received from over 50 individual and agency contributors. The major source of documents have been the Department of Energy (DOE) Headquarters; the DOE Nevada Operations Office; the Las Vegas and Washington, D.C., offices of the Environmental Protection Agency; the Department of Defenses’ Defense Nuclear Agency and Defense Technical Information Center; the DOE Technical Information Center in Oak Ridge; the DOE Environmental Measurement Laboratory in New York City; the Los Alamos National Laboratory; the University of California Project 37 Files; the Utah State Archives in Salt Lake City; the Nevada State Archives in Carson City; the Weather Service Nuclear Support Office; and the Technical Library of the Reynolds Electrical and Engineering Company, Inc., at Mercury, Nevada. The following describes, in general, the content of some of the most significant collections: e@ Documents collected from the archives in the Historians Office of the Department of Energy Headquarters focus primarily on the policy and decision making activities of the Atomic Energy Commission. These include the minutes of the AEC and the Advisory Committee for the Division of Biology and Medicine, executive correspondence, secretariat papers, staff papers, and special reports. e The DOE Nevada Operations files yielded a wide variety of documentation, including operational and administrative orders, reports, procedures, and correspondence regarding conduct of tests. e The files of Project 37 of the University of California deal with soil sampling and monitoring of select test events within the 250 mile radius of the Nevada Test Site. e By request of the Health, Education, and Welfare Department, a review of the records from the Washington, D.C., offices of the old Public Health Service was conducted in 1979. This review produced a three volume report, "Effects of Nuclear Weapons Testing on Health Report of the Panel of Experts on the Archives of PHS Documents," which lists approximately 12,000 documents. The three volume report and microfilm copy of all documents listed are in the CIC collection. Os 216