ern 4 it would be to provide a Field C.nsulting Service to these small plants and an analytical and instrument faoility to assist them on those phases of radiological health program. The Laboratory was put in New York because this was the headquarters of the old Medison Square Office of the Manhattan District and later of the New York Operations Office of the Atomic Energy Commiseion whose original function was to procure materials for the piles for the diffusions plants at Oak Ridge for Los Alamosa, During the war we vrocessed all of the urenium in plants operated out of this office, procured the uranium from the mines that was bought for this country} processed it for Oak- Ridge and slugs for Hanford, We procured the beryllium or thorium and so on, including such things as uranium, heavy water, tritium and the other basis materials of the Atomio Energy Prorram,. Row, the program that we are going to precent today is Lliustrative of the program of the Laboratory as it exists now. The current program has always got SS