Topic Clarify for the record the numbers and status of participants at NTS tests (also Pacific). Try to provide a breakout of military. Clear up the point of multiple dosimetry records. The information listed for Question A+3. clarifies the numbers of participants at NTS and Pacific tests-to the eXtent of exposure records available to REECo. We are unable to~identify the military/civilian status of participants at this time. However, a current dosimetry records project includes research and writing of computer programs which will permit retrieval of records by organigation within each year for those years where this identification he ae ee OE, Ae | ae age ee mene ors) information is in the records. This computer retrieval primarily is intended to separate military and civilian personnel where possible. However, all the records do not identify military personnel by rank, service number, organization, ship, or location, or by other means which would allow segregation of records. This is particularly the case where military personnel were assigned to work under civilian testing laboratories and are identified under those organizations. The records project is budgeted for this fiscal year, and additional funds have been requested for the next two fiscal years. The project also includes compiling a history of personnel dosimetry for all nuclear testing in the Pacific and on the U.S. continent. A complication in the existing files is brought about because of "multiple dosimetry records." Essentially, multiple records means that one individual may appear more than once per year in the Pacific records and in NTS records prior to 1957. These usually are not duplications, but represent different exposures. For example, one individual may be listed for a test operation period and for an interim period in the same year, or for each calendar quarter in a nontesting year. BEST AVAILABLE COPY It bears repeating that there were probably many military personnel present during the Pacific test series for whom no exposure records +o RPE oe appear in REECo files.