SECTION 3 THE NTPR PROGRAM, THE DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY, AND THE VETERANS ADMINISTRATION The Department of Energy (DOE) and the Veterans Administration (VA) do not have separate Nuclear Test Personnel Review (NTPR) teams or organizations. They interact, nonetheless, in significant ways with the NIPR program. Their efforts, particularly with the information made available by DOE and the health services provided by the VA, have been developed to address present and future needs of concerned veterans and other interested parties. 3.1 INTERACTIONS BETWEEN THE DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY AND THE NTPR PROGRAM. With its contractors, the Department of Energy has substantially advanced the NTPR program. One contractor, Reynolds Electrical & Engineering Company (REECo) of Las Vegas, Nevada, maintains.the official master file of dose records for the atmospheric nuclear weapons testing program. It also has key responsibilities for the Coordination and Information Center (CIC). A public archives housed in Las Vegas, CIC contains unclassified historical documentation relevant to atmospheric nuclear weapons testing. 3.1.1 The Master File of Dose Records. REECo was a prime support contractor of the DOE (originally the Atomic Energy Commission--AEC) throughout most of the atmospheric nuclear weapons testing and has been a company of EG&G, Inc., since 1967. It has been permitted to support the Department of Defense (DOD) and the military services through agreements between DOE and DOD (1). Started in 1923, REECo was selected to construct electrical facilities at Los Alamos, New Mexico, for the 16 July 1945 detonation of Project TRINITY. The company began construction at the Nevada testing site, identified in chapter 4, for the AEC in December 1950. In December 1952, it signed a support contract with the AEC that included the operation of all facilities at the test site except for feeding, housing, and camp services; maintenance of 51