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ADVISORY BOARD ON 

RADIATION AND WORKER HEALTH

National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health

VERIFICATION AND VALIDATION OF TEMPORARY

BADGES AT THE CHEMICAL PROCESSING PLANT 

(1963–1970)

Contract No. 211-2014-58081 

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

Abbreviations and Acronyms ......................................................................................................... 4

1 Introduction and Background ................................................................................................. 5

2 Characterization of Temporary Badges ..................................................................................

3 Evaluation of 30 Updated Claimant Dosimetry Files Received from INL/DOE ................... 8

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4 Discussion of Two Cases Identified in August 2018 as Requiring Further Research .......... 17

5 Evaluation of Name Variations among Temporary/Visitor Badges ..................................... 17

6 Summary Conclusions.......................................................................................................... 18

7 References............................................................................................................................. 19

Attachment A: NOCTS Claim Numbers Associated with Each Case ID Designation ................ 21
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ABBREVIATIONS AND ACRONYMS

ABRWH, 

Board Advisory Board on Radiation and Worker Health 

CATI computer-aided telephone interview

CFA Central Facilities Area

CPP Chemical Processing Plant

DOE U.S. Department of Energy

DOL U.S. Department of Labor 

EBR-II Experimental Breeder Reactor II

EE Energy Employee

INL Idaho National Laboratory 

LFC location file card

MST&T Mountain States Telephone and Telegraph 

MTR Material Test Reactor

NIOSH National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health

NOCTS NIOSH/OCAS Claims Tracking System

OCAS Office of Compensation Analysis and Support 

ORAU Oak Ridge Associated Universities

SEC Special Exposure Cohort 

SPERT Special Power Excursion Reactor Test

TAN Test Area North

TRA Test Reactor Area

V&V verification and validation

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1 INTRODUCTION AND BACKGROUND

As part of its evaluation of Special Exposure Cohort (SEC) Petition 00219, the Idaho National 

Laboratory (INL)/Argonne National Laboratory-West Work Group requested that SC&A 

investigate methods to verify and validate the proposed class definition for the Idaho Chemical 

Processing Plant (CPP) during the period from January 1, 1963, to February 28, 1970. The SEC00219 evaluation report proposes the class definition as follows for this period: 

All employees of the Department of Energy, its predecessor agencies, and their 

contractors and subcontractors who worked at the Idaho National Laboratory 

(INL) in Scoville, Idaho, and (a) who were monitored for external radiation at the 

Idaho Chemical Processing Plant (CPP (e.g., at least one film badge or TLD 

dosimeter from CPP) between January 1, 1963 and February 28, 1970... 

[NIOSH 2017, p. 1]

Specifically, SC&A was tasked with evaluating the portion of the class definition that required

CPP-specific external dosimetry. Preliminary investigations by the National Institute for 

Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) and SC&A discovered that nonroutine external 

badging (referred to as “temporary badges” in this report) was not always entered into the INL 

dosimetry system, and thus these dosimetry records were not being appropriately assigned to 

potential members of the SEC class. In response to this issue, the U.S. Department of Energy 

(DOE) began an extensive coding effort in 2016 to index the temporary badges so that they are 

appropriately assigned to the correct energy employee (EE). Once those badges had been 

correctly indexed, all appropriate external dosimetry should be available for individual SEC 

adjudication under the requirements of the proposed definition (shown above). 

As the necessary DOE coding effort began in 2016, the Work Group expressed concern that 

inherent difficulties in the coding effort, such as incorrect transcription, variation in the legibility 

and quality of handwritten records, and other human error, may inadvertently result in the 

exclusion of a qualified claimant from the proposed SEC class. The decision about the 

acceptable level of effectiveness and completeness of the dosimetry index is of singular 

importance to the Work Group and Advisory Board on Radiation and Worker Health’s (Board’s) 

ultimate recommendation on the SEC class. To evaluate these concerns, SC&A proposed a 

method in which the dosimetry files for a set of claims with known temporary badges at CPP 

would be requested from DOE after the coding had been completed. The verification and 

validation (V&V) methodology proposal is documented in SC&A memoranda of September 29, 

2016 (SC&A 2016a), and August 3, 2017 (SC&A 2017), and was discussed during the May and 

August 2017 Work Group meetings (ABRWH 2017a, 2017b). At the August 2017 meeting, the 

Work Group determined that the proposed V&V method should proceed in stages, with the first 

group of 30 claimant dosimetry file requests to be completed prior to a second group of 30 

claimant dosimetry requests. This would allow for more efficient analysis of the claim files as 

DOE completed the records requests.

After the August 2017 Work Group meeting, NIOSH began submitting requests to INL/DOE for 

these V&V claims with cover letters that stated the following:
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This case is part of a group of 30 cases that are being reviewed in order to 

evaluate a concern raised by the Advisory Board on Radiation Worker Health 

(ABRWH). Although INL previously provided dosimetry responses for this EE, we 

are requesting that INL perform a new records search and provide a full 

radiological record for this EE... 

In order to completed [sic] address the ABRWH concern, it would be extremely 

helpful if the full dosimetry/radiological record were provided. 

However, it was clear that early dosimetry records received from INL/DOE did not contain the 

identified temporary badges, and so records were requested from INL/DOE a second time in the 

spring 2018. SC&A provided a status memo on the first 18 of 30 claimant files received in July 

2018 (SC&A 2018a) and presented the results to the Work Group and Advisory Board in August 

2018 (SC&A 2018b). Based on the SC&A 2018a analysis, NIOSH determined the INL/DOE 

records identification process was still not functioning properly for at least 2 of the 18 claims 

analyzed in SC&A’s interim status memorandum. A third request was made to INL/DOE for 

these two cases (see Section 4.0) in addition to requests for the remaining 12 of 30 claims. 

Updated dosimetry files were received from INL/DOE for all 30 claims by mid-October 2018. 

2 CHARACTERIZATION OF TEMPORARY BADGES

During the SEC period under evaluation (1963–1970), individual INL facilities issued routine 

location-specific dosimetry badges to correctly track and attribute accrued doses for the facility 

and associated operating contractor. Temporary badges were used for workers who were not on a 

routine dosimetry monitoring schedule specific to a given facility but who were required to enter 

the facility for unique job assignments. For example, a worker might have a routine monthly 

dosimetry badge for the Central Facilities Area (CFA) but be required to travel to the CPP for 

another work assignment. Upon arriving at the guarded entrance to CPP, the worker would be 

assigned a temporary badge to use while working in the facility. 

The temporary badge records reviewed for this SEC evaluation are in two general formats:

1. Temporary Badge Reports: a single page listing of between 1 and 27 EEs, often from

multiple employers, which correlates to the date the temporary badges were read and

reported (see Figure 1).

2. Visitor Badge Cards: a unique card for an EE that lists the issue date and expiration date

and generally has a read date handwritten on the back of the card. In addition, the EE’s

name, employer, INL security number, and the supervisor authorizing the card issuance

are provided (see Figure 2).

In general, such temporary badges were assigned for a period of a few days; however, they could 

also be assigned for periods of a month or more. Table 1 provides examples of temporary badges 

that exceeded 1 month in each year under evaluation. 
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Figure 1. Example of a Temporary Badge Report from 1963 

Figure 2. Example of the Front and Back of a Visitor Badging Card from 1968–1969 
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Table 1. Examples of Temporary Badges Exceeding 30 Days of Exposure 

Year Issue Date Expiration 

Date

Report Date Days Covered 

by Badge

SRDB Ref. ID

(PDF page #)

1963 5/1/1963 6/10/1963 6/12/1963 41 151623 (p. 205)

1964 4/1/1964 5/7/1964 5/7/1964 37 143043 (p. 154)

1965 6/7/1965 7/12/1965 7/14/1965 36 143042 (p. 47)

1966 7/28/1966 8/31/1966 8/31/1966 35 143041 (p. 76)

1967 7/12/1967 12/7/1967 12/8/1967 149 143039 (p. 62)

1968 10/30/1968 1/3/1969 1/10/1969 66 151596 (pp. 34–35)

1969 12/4/1969 1/4/1970 Not Provided 32 143032 (p. 142)

1970 2/16/1970 3/17/1970 3/20/1970 30 143032 (p. 36)

3 EVALUATION OF 30 UPDATED CLAIMANT DOSIMETRY FILES 

RECEIVED FROM INL/DOE 

Table 2 compares the temporary badges identified by SC&A and the updated dosimetry files 

recently transmitted to NIOSH from INL/DOE. It is important to note that the majority of 

temporary badge reports do not contain other identifying information besides last name, first and 

middle initials, and the employer at the time of the badging.1 Therefore, the only temporary 

badges considered in columns 2 and 3 of Table 2 had to have exact matches for these four 

identifiers (alternately, three identifiers if the middle initial was not provided). In addition, an 

exception was made for Case L,

2

 in which the exclusion of “ ” was evaluated for the reasons 

stated in association with that case in Table 2.

1 An INL security number (referred to by INL as the “S#”) was usually included only in cases where a positive dose 

was accrued during the temporary badging period. 

2 Formerly Case F in SC&A 2018a.

SC&A identified 671 temporary badges for evaluation among the 30 claims included in the 

study. Of those 671 temporary badges, 634 (94.5%) were successfully identified and included in 

the updated monitoring records provided by INL/DOE. Among the 30 cases evaluated in this 

study, exactly half of them contained all of the temporary badges identified by SC&A in the 

updated dosimetry record (i.e., 15 of 30 cases had 100% coverage). 

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Table 2. Overview of V&V Evaluation for 30 Claimants

Case 

ID*

Total # of 

Temporary 

Badges 

Checked from 

SC&A List

Total # of 

SC&A Badges 

Found in 

Updated DOE 

Response 

(% of Total)

Case Notes and Comments

A 2 1 (50%)

• Name: . Employer: Idaho Nuclear. Job Title: 

. 

• Location file card (LFC) indicates assignment to Test Area

North (TAN), CFA, Test Reactor Area (TRA), and CPP during

period of interest.

• During the time frame of the missing temporary badge, the EE

also had temporary badges at the Material Test Reactor (MTR)

and was routinely badged at TAN.

• Computer-aided telephone interview (CATI) report with the EE

indicated that gloveboxes and fume hoods were sometimes used

at CPP.

• Both the SC&A review of temporary badges and the updated

DOE response file contained the following name variation:

B 41 32 (78.0%)

• Name: . Employer: Phillips

Petroleum/Idaho Nuclear. Job Title: . 

• LFC does not cover the period of interest.

• Both “ ” and “ ” appear in the 

dosimetry file and temporary badges (there was no connection 

between the missing temporary badges and the exclusion of the 

middle initial). 

• Potential name variations identified in SC&A-reviewed

temporary badges: , , and 

. None of the temporary badges associated with these 

name variations were included in the updated DOE file.

• Updated DOE response does contain the following variations in

other records:

.

C 5 4 (80.0%)

• Name: . Employer: H.S. Wright. Job Title: 

. 

• LFC indicates assignment to the Naval Reactor Facility, MTR,

and CPP during the period of interest.

• The EE does not appear to be badged in another area during the

missing temporary badge period; however, the LFC indicates

assignment to MTR.

• CATI with EE does not mention CPP.

• No name variations were observed in either the SC&A analysis

or the updated DOE response file.
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Case 

ID*

Total # of 

Temporary 

Badges 

Checked from 

SC&A List

Total # of 

SC&A Badges 

Found in 

Updated DOE 

Response 

(% of Total)

Case Notes and Comments

D 5 4 (80.0%)

• Name: . Employer: Phillips Petroleum/Idaho 

Nuclear. Job Title: . 

• LFC does not cover the period of interest.

• Missing temporary badge simply lists the last name “ ” 

with the employer given as “ .”

• U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) initial case file indicates the

employer was Phillips Petroleum during the missing temporary

badge period.

• The EE does not appear to be badged in another area during the

missing temporary badge period.

• CATI with EE notes that booties were worn once while in CPP.

• No name variations were identified in the set of temporary

badges identified by SC&A.

• Updated DOE response includes the additional name variations:

. 

E 121 110 (90.9%)

• Name: . Employer: Phillips 

Petroleum/Idaho Nuclear. Job Title: . 

• LFC indicates assignment to TAN and CFA during period of

interest.

• Missing temporary badges occurred from , during

which the EE was badged both routinely and temporarily in

many INL locations. Over 500 temporary badges were observed

in the updated DOE response file during the period of interest.

• SC&A identified two name variations:

, both of which were included in the updated 

DOE response file.

• In addition, updated DOE response includes the following name

variations:

F 25 23 (92.0%)

• Name: . Employer: Phillips Petroleum/Idaho 

Nuclear. Job Title: . 

• LFC indicates various temporary/visitor badging periods at

CFA, MTR, CPP, and TAN during the SEC period of interest.

• Potential name variations identified in SC&A-reviewed

temporary badges:

. Only the last variation (“ ”)

was included in the updated DOE response; however, it was also

a positive result, so the S# was included on the temporary badge

report.

• Updated DOE response does contain the following variations in

other records:
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Case 

ID*

Total # of 

Temporary 

Badges 

Checked from 

SC&A List

Total # of 

SC&A Badges 

Found in 

Updated DOE 

Response 

(% of Total)

Case Notes and Comments

G 13 12 (92.3%)

• Name: . Employer: Phillips Petroleum. Job 

Title: .

• LFC indicates assignment to Power Burst Facility and TRA 

during the period of interest.

• CATI with the EE notes that they had occasion to visit every 

area of INL, including CPP.

• EE was routinely badged at the Special Power Excursion 

Reactor Test (SPERT) during the missing temporary badge 

period.

• One potential name variation was identified in SC&A-reviewed 

temporary badges: . One of the two badges 

identified by SC&A with this name was included in the updated 

DOE response. However, the DOE response contains many 

more examples of the name in other dosimetry 

records.

• The updated DOE response contained the following additional 

name variations: .

H 17 16 (94.1%)

• Name: . Employer: Phillips 

Petroleum/Ormond Construction. Job Title: 

. 

• LFC indicates that CPP was the primary work location.

• Missing temporary badge lists Ormond Construction as the 

employer, which is verified in the DOL initial case file as the 

EE’s employer during the period when the badge was issued.

• Potential name variation identified in SC&A-reviewed 

temporary badges: . This record was not included 

in the updated DOE response file.

• Updated DOE response does contain the following variations in 

other records: .

I 35 33 (94.3%)

• Name: . Employer: Phillips Petroleum/Idaho 

Nuclear. Job Title: . 

• LFC only lists CPP as a work area but only provides the 

“withdrawal date” of .

• No name variations were identified in the set of temporary 

badges reviewed by SC&A.

• Updated DOE response contains the following name variation: 

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Case 

ID*

Total # of 

Temporary 

Badges 

Checked from 

SC&A List

Total # of 

SC&A Badges 

Found in 

Updated DOE 

Response 

(% of Total)

Case Notes and Comments

J 19 18 (94.7%)

• Name: . Employer: Phillips Petroleum/Idaho 

Nuclear. Job Title: . 

• LFC indicates assignment to CPP and TAN during the period of

interest.

• EE was temporarily badged at MTR during the missed

temporary badge period of interest.

• CATI with EE indicates decontamination activities in hot cells

while working as a .

• Name variation identified by SC&A: . One of the 

two badges identified by SC&A with this name variation was 

included in the updated DOE response file.

• Updated DOE response contains the following additional name

variations:

.

K 20 19 (95.0%)

• Name: . Employer: Phillips Petroleum/Idaho 

Nuclear. Job Title: .

• LFC indicates assignment to TAN, MTR, CPP, and the

Experimental Breeder Reactor-II (EBR-II) during the period of

interest.

• EE was routinely badged at MTR during the missing temporary

badge period.

• CATI with the EE does not mention CPP.

• One name variation was identified by the SC&A analysis

( ), which was also identified in the updated DOE 

response.

• In addition, the updated DOE response includes the name

variations: .
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Case 

ID*

Total # of 

Temporary 

Badges 

Checked from 

SC&A List

Total # of 

SC&A Badges 

Found in 

Updated DOE 

Response 

(% of Total)

Case Notes and Comments

L 49 47 (95.9%)

• Name: (however, “ ” appears with

the same security number interchangeably in the claimant’s

regular dosimetry records). Employer: Phillips Petroleum. Job

Title: .

• This case was part of the July 2018 V&V interim analysis

(SC&A 2018a), and the records were requested a third time in

August 2018 after it was discovered only 12.5% of the identified

temporary badges were included in the updated DOE response

file. The older submission by DOE had only included records

containing the name and excluded entries with “ ” in

the name.

• LFC only lists CPP as a work location.

• Potential name variations identified in the SC&A-reviewed

temporary badges: (however, and appear to 

be written over top of one another) and . The 

temporary badge for was included in the updated 

DOE response.

• Updated DOE response also contains the following variations in

other records:

(note: neither the name “ ” nor a middle initial of

any kind appears in the DOL case files or CATI interview with

the survivor).

M 31 30 (96.8%)

• Name: . Employer: Phillips Petroleum. Job 

Title: . 

• This case was part of the July 2018 V&V interim analysis

(SC&A 2018a), and the records were requested a third time in

August 2018 after it was discovered none of the identified

temporary badges were included in the updated DOE response

file.

• LFC and extensive regular dosimetry indicates work at the MTR

and TRA.

• CATI with the EE does not mention CPP but does mention the

EE was part of the “ ” for the first years of

employment (EE’s covered employment starts on ).

• No name variations were identified in the set of temporary

badges reviewed by SC&A.

• Updated DOE response contains the following name variation:

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Case 

ID*

Total # of 

Temporary 

Badges 

Checked from 

SC&A List

Total # of 

SC&A Badges 

Found in 

Updated DOE 

Response 

(% of Total)

Case Notes and Comments

N 68 66 (97.1%)

• Name: . Employer: F.C. Torkelson/Idaho 

Nuclear. Job Title: .

• LFC indicates assignment to CFA, TAN, MTR, and “Nx”

(assumed by SC&A to represent new construction) during the

period of interest.

• Potential name variations identified in SC&A-reviewed

temporary badges: (both

variations associated with F.C. Torkelson), and

(associated with Idaho Nuclear Corporation). None of the

identified temporary badges associated with these name

variations were included in the updated DOE response.

• No additional name variations were identified in the updated

DOE response.

O 41 40 (97.6%)

• Name: . Employer: Phillips Petroleum/Idaho 

Nuclear. Job Title: . 

• LFC indicates assignment to the Area Hot Cell, TAN, CFA,

MTR, CPP, and EBR-II during the period of interest.

• The EE was also temporarily badged at MTR during the missing

temporary badge period for CPP.

• Name variations identified by SC&A:

. The updated DOE response

contained five of the eight identified badges with these name

variations.

• The updated DOE response contained the following additional

name variation: .

P 4 4 (100%)

• Name: . Employer: Phillips Petroleum/Idaho 

Nuclear. Job Title: .

• No name variations were identified in the set of temporary

badges reviewed by SC&A nor identified in the updated DOE

response.

Q 4 4 (100%)

• Name: . Employer: Phillips Petroleum/Idaho 

Nuclear. Job Title: . 

• No name variations were identified in the set of temporary

badges reviewed by SC&A nor identified in the updated DOE

response.

R 30 30 (100%)

• Name: . Employer: Phillips Petroleum/Idaho 

Nuclear. Job Title: .

• No name variations were identified in the set of temporary

badges reviewed by SC&A nor identified in the updated DOE

response.

S 25 25 (100%)

• Name: . Employer: Phillips Petroleum/Idaho 

Nuclear. Job title: .

• Potential name variation identified in SC&A-reviewed

temporary badges: . This record was not included 

in the updated DOE response file.

• Updated DOE response does contain the following variations in

other records: .
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Case 

ID*

Total # of 

Temporary 

Badges 

Checked from 

SC&A List

Total # of 

SC&A Badges 

Found in 

Updated DOE 

Response 

(% of Total)

Case Notes and Comments

T 7 7 (100%)

• Name: . Employer: H.S. Wright, H.K. 

Ferguson, Fluor. Job Title: . 

• No name variations were identified in the set of temporary

badges reviewed by SC&A nor identified in the updated DOE

response.

U 1 1 (100%)

• Name: . Employer: Phillips Petroleum. Job 

Title: .

• No name variations were identified in the set of temporary

badges reviewed by SC&A nor identified in the updated DOE

response.

• Interestingly, this claim was part of earlier evaluations by

SC&A and NIOSH in which no previous external dosimetry

could be found but the claim record at the time contained an in

vivo record labelled CPP (refer to NIOSH 2016, SC&A 2016b,

and ABRWH 2016, pp. 46–52).

V 32 32 (100%)

• Name: . Employer: MST&T (Mountain 

States Telephone and Telegraph). Job Title: . 

• Potential name variations identified in SC&A-reviewed

temporary badges:

 All four name variations are 

associated with MST&T; only the last variation (“ 

”) was included in the updated DOE response.

• Updated DOE response does contain the following additional

name variations:

.

W 7 7 (100%)

• Name: . Employer: Phillips Petroleum. Job 

Title: .

• One of the temporary badge records identified by SC&A

contained an INL security badge number that had numbers

transposed (“ ” instead of the correct security badge 

number of “ ”); however, the record was still included with 

the updated DOE response.

• No name variations were identified in the set of temporary

badges reviewed by SC&A nor identified in the updated DOE

response.

X 20 20 (100%)

• Name: . Employer: Phillips Petroleum/Idaho 

Nuclear. Job Title: .

• Potential name variations identified in SC&A-reviewed

temporary badges:

 The temporary badges 

identified with these name variations were not included in the 

DOE response; however, an additional CPP temporary for “

” did appear in the records.

• Updated DOE response does contain the following name

variation: .
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Case 

ID*

Total # of 

Temporary 

Badges 

Checked from 

SC&A List

Total # of 

SC&A Badges 

Found in 

Updated DOE 

Response 

(% of Total)

Case Notes and Comments

Y 25 25 (100%)

• Name: ( also appears in 

DOE-supplied monitoring records). Employer: Phillips 

Petroleum. Job Title: . 

• Potential name variations identified in SC&A-reviewed

temporary badges: 

. Only the temporary badge with 

the last name variation (“ ”) appeared in the 

updated DOE response.

• Updated DOE response does contain the following variations in

other records: .

Z 1 1 (100%)

• Name: . Employer: Idaho Nuclear. Job Title: 

. 

• No name variations were identified in the set of temporary

badges reviewed by SC&A.

• Updated DOE response contains the following name variations:

.

AA 7 7 (100%)

• Name: . Employer: Phillips Petroleum/Idaho 

Nuclear. Job Title: .

• No name variations were identified in the set of temporary

badges reviewed by SC&A.

• Updated DOE response contains the following name variations:

.

AB 4 4 (100%)

• Name: . Employer: H.S. Wright. Job Title: 

. 

• SC&A identified the following name variations:

. Only the latter name variation appeared in 

the updated DOE response.

• Updated DOE response contained the additional name variation:

.

AC 4 4 (100%)

• Name: . Employer: Atomic Energy Commission.

Job Title: .

• No name variations were identified in the set of temporary

badges reviewed by SC&A.

• Updated DOE response contained the additional name variation:

.

AD 8 8 (100%)

• Name: . Employer: U.S. Weather Bureau. Job 

Title: .

• No name variations were identified in the set of temporary

badges reviewed by SC&A.

• Updated DOE response contained the additional name

variations:

.

*Case ID is an arbitrary designation that does not have any direct connection to the claimant. Attachment A provides

the actual NIOSH/OCAS Claims Tracking System (NOCTS) claim numbers associated with each case ID

designation for reference.

**It is unclear why a record associated with this name was included in Case AD’s dosimetry response file.
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4 DISCUSSION OF TWO CASES IDENTIFIED IN AUGUST 2018 AS 

REQUIRING FURTHER RESEARCH

As noted in Section 1, two of the cases evaluated as part of SC&A’s 2018 interim analysis 

showed significant issues with the identification of temporary badges. These are shown in 

Table 2 as Cases L and M.

3

 For Case L, the 2018 analysis found that only 6 of 49 (~12.2%) of 

the identified temporary badges had been included in the updated DOE monitoring records. For 

Case M, none of the 31 identified temporary badges had been included in the updated records. 

3 In the SC&A 2018a analysis, Cases L and M were denoted as Cases F and K, respectively.

In response to this, NIOSH resubmitted records requests a third time in August 2018 for these 

two individuals with modified cover letters that noted: 

NIOSH and the ORAU Team have discussed this case with [name redacted], who 

has agreed that additional temporary dosimetry badges exist and has committed 

to providing the additional information. 

Based on the DOE response file received subsequent to this request, the percentage of identified 

temporary badges included in the claim file increased to 95.9% (47 of 49) and 96.8% (30 of 31) 

for Cases L and M, respectively. 

5 EVALUATION OF NAME VARIATIONS AMONG 

TEMPORARY/VISITOR BADGES 

During the course of its original review of temporary badges, SC&A identified many examples

where it appeared slight variations or misspellings of the EE’s name were observed. While these 

variations were not included in the totals evaluated in Section 3, they are discussed as 

appropriate in the “Case Notes and Comments” column of Table 2. SC&A observed a total of 51 

temporary badges with potential variations of the claimant’s name, 15 of which (29.4%) were 

included in the corresponding updated DOE response file. Table 3 summarizes the observed 

name variations.

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In addition, SC&A evaluated the updated dosimetry files provided by DOE/INL for additional 

name variations that were not identified in SC&A’s review of temporary badges but had been 

included in the updated dosimetry file. These additional name variations are described for each 

applicable case in Table 2. A total of 66 additional name variations among 21 of the reviewed 

claims were identified in the updated dosimetry files provided by INL/DOE. 

6 SUMMARY CONCLUSIONS

SC&A’s verification and validation review of 30 claims covering 671 temporary badges 

resulting in the following conclusions: 

• Overall, 94.5% of all identified badges (634/671) had been correctly attributed to the EE

and included in their individual dosimetry file.

• On average among the 30 reviewed claims, 94.3% of identified badges per claim were

correctly included in the EE’s individual dosimetry file.

• 15 of the 30 reviewed claims contained 100% of the temporary badges identified by

SC&A.
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• The two cases with significant issues identified during SC&A’s 2018 interim status

review showed marked improvement, based on the resubmission of dosimetry records

from INL/DOE that occurred during fall 2018. The percentage of temporary badges

identified by SC&A improved from 12.2% to 95.9% in one of the cases and 0% to 96.8%

in the other case.

• Only 15 of 51 (29.4%) of the temporary badges with name variations identified by SC&A

were included in the updated dosimetry files provided by INL/DOE.

• SC&A observed an additional 66 name variations (covering 21 of the 30 reviewed

claims) in the temporary badge files included with the updated dosimetry files provided

by INL/DOE.

• All 30 cases had at least one CPP badge in evidence in the updated dosimetry record.

7 REFERENCES

ABRWH 2016. Transcript: Meeting of the Advisory Board on Radiation and Worker Health, 

Argonne National Laboratory-West/Idaho National Laboratory Work Group, Hebron, KY. 

August 2, 2016. 

ABRWH 2017a. Transcript: Teleconference Meeting of the Advisory Board on Radiation and 

Worker Health, Idaho National Laboratory/Argonne National Laboratory-West Work Group. 

May 16, 2017. 

ABRWH 2017b. Transcript: Teleconference Meeting of the Advisory Board on Radiation and 

Worker Health, Idaho National Laboratory/Argonne National Laboratory-West Work Group. 

August 14, 2017. 

NIOSH 2016. Evaluation of 32 Additional INL Claims for SEC00219 Proposed Class Definition, 

National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, Cincinnati, OH. July 20, 2016. 

NIOSH 2017. SEC Petition Evaluation Report – Petition SEC-00219 – Idaho National 

Laboratory, Revision 2, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, Cincinnati, OH. 

February 22, 2017. 

SC&A 2016a. Memorandum: Verification and Validation (V&V) Plan for Temporary Badges at 

CPP (1963–1970), SC&A, Inc., Vienna, VA. September 29, 2016. 

SC&A 2016b. Evaluation of Claims with Supplemental Dosimetry Requests, SCA-2016-SEC0074F, Revision 0, SC&A, Inc., Vienna, VA. January 12, 2016. 

SC&A 2017. Memorandum: Update on Validation and Verification of INL CPP Temporary 

Badge Database – Expansion of Claimant Pool (1963–1970), SC&A, Inc., Arlington, VA. 

August 3, 2017. 

SC&A 2018a. Memorandum: Interim Status of Verification and Validation Activities for CPP 

(1963–1970), SC&A, Inc., Arlington, VA. July 26, 2018. 
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SC&A 2018b. Presentation: Idaho National Laboratory SEC Petition-00219 Update, SC&A, 

Inc., Arlington, VA. August 23, 2018. 
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ATTACHMENT A: NOCTS CLAIM NUMBERS ASSOCIATED WITH 

EACH CASE ID DESIGNATION

Case ID NOCTS Claim #

A [redacted]

B [redacted]

C [redacted]

D [redacted]

E [redacted]

F [redacted]

G [redacted]

H [redacted]

I [redacted]

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K [redacted]

L [redacted]

M [redacted]

N [redacted]

O [redacted]

P [redacted]

Q [redacted]

R [redacted]

S [redacted]

T [redacted]

U [redacted]

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Y [redacted]

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