Providence, Rhode Island; Pueblo, Colorado; Rapid City, South Dakota; Reno, Nevada; Rochester, New York; Roswell, New Mexico; Sacramento, California; Salt Lake City, Utah; San Diego, California; San Francisco, California; Scottsbluff, Nebraska; Seattle, Washington; Spokane, Washington; St. Louis, Missouri; Syracuse, New Yorks Tonopah, Nevada; Tucson, Arizona; Washington, D. C. (Silver Hill, Md.); Wichita, Kansaa; Williston, North Dakota; Winnemucca, Nevada; Yuma , Arizona. Although this collection system provides important scientific data, it does not provide immediate information on fallout levels, since the samples must be mailed to the Health and Safety Laboratory and counted there, Information is provided more quickly by two other monitoring networks, one consisting of 38 stations established by the U. S. Public Health Service and the other consisting of monitors at 11 Commission installations. The USPHS monitoring station locations are: Albany, New York; Anchorage, Alaska; Atlanta, Georgia; Austin, Texas; Baltimore, Maryland; Berkeley, California; Boise, Idaho; Cheyenne, Wyoming; Cincinnati, Ohio; Denver, Colorado; El Paso, Texas; Gastonia, North Carolina; Harrisburg, Pennsylvania; Hartford, Connecticut; Honolulu, T. H.3; Indian-polis, Indiana; Iowa City, Iowa; Jacksonville, Florida; Jefferson City, Missouri; Juneau, Alaska; Klamath Falls, Oregon; Lansing, Michigan; Lawrence, Massachusetts; Little Rock, Arkansas; Los Angeles, California; Minneapolis, Minnesota; Mercury, Nevada; New Orleans, Louisiana; Oklahoma City, Oklahoma; Phoenix, Arizona; Pierre, South Dakota; Portland, Oregon; Richmond, Virginia; Salt Lake City, Utah; Santa Fe, New Mexico; Seattle, Washington; Springfield, Illinois; Trenton, New Jeisey; Washington, D. C. The AEC monitoring station locations are: Berkeley, California ~ Radiation Laboratory, University of California; Cincinnati, Ohio - General Electric Company, Aircraft Nuclear Propulsion Department; Idaho Falls, Idaho — Idaho Operations Office; Lemont, Illinois - Argonne National Laboratory; Los Alamos, New Mexico - Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory; New York, New York New York Operations Office; Richland, Washington - Hanford Operations Office; Oak Ridge, Tennessee - Oak Ridge National Laboratory; Rochester, New York - The Atomic Energy Project, University of Rochester; Salt Lake City, Utah-- Radiobiology Laboratory, University of Utah; West Los Angeles, California - Atomic Energy Project, UCLA. The Public Health Service established its country-wide monitoring system in 1956 in connection with the Redwing series of tests at the Commission's Eniwetok Proving Grounds. activated for the new Nevada series. The system has been re- The Public Health Service monitoring stations make ings of radioactivity and forward the data to a central office in Washington. The stations also report data to Health Officers of the states in which the stations are daily readcollection the State located. fie)St /\ - 587