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DOE Review Release 06/23/2017

Guidance on Assigning Occupational X-Ray 

Dose Under EEOICPA for X-Rays 

Administered Off Site

ORAUT-OTIB-0079 Rev. 02

Effective Date: 06/15/2017

Supersedes: Revision 01

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PUBLICATION RECORD

EFFECTIVE 

DATE

REVISION 

NUMBER DESCRIPTION

01/03/2011 00 New technical information bulletin to implement new DCAS guidance 

based on recent NIOSH interpretation of EEOICPA statute language. 

Incorporates formal internal and NIOSH review comments. Training 

required: As determined by the Objective Manager. Initiated by 

Elyse M. Thomas.

03/18/2016 01 Incorporates new information, references, and updated list of 

facilities that had X-rays performed off the site. Three sites moved 

from Table 1 (off site) to Table 2 (on site), resulting in the addition of 

X-ray dose (Hanford, Portsmouth, and Extrusion Plant (from 1996-

2006). Incorporates formal internal review comments. No review 

comments were received as a result of formal NIOSH review. 

Constitutes a total rewrite of the document. Training required: As 

determined by the Objective Manager. Initiated by Elyse M. Thomas.

06/15/2017 02 Revision initiated to incorporate new information, references, and 

updated list of facilities that performed X-rays off the site at 

noncovered facilities. BWXT and PNNL added to Table 3-1 with 

information regarding procedures performed at non-covered facilities. 

No information was added to Table 3-2 concerning covered dates. 

However, the dates for PNNL was reduced to reflect the addition of 

information in Table 3-1. Incorporates formal internal review 

comments. Constitutes a total rewrite of the document. Training 

required: As determined by the Objective Manager. Initiated by 

Elyse M. Thomas.
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TABLE OF CONTENTS

SECTION TITLE PAGE

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

1.0 Introduction .............................................................................................................................. 5

2.0 Guidance ................................................................................................................................. 5

3.0 Discussion ............................................................................................................................... 5

References ........................................................................................................................................ 13

LIST OF TABLES

TABLE TITLE PAGE

3-1 Covered facilities that administered occupational X-rays at noncovered, offsite facilities ......... 6

3-2 Covered facilities that administered occupational X-rays on site, or for which no evidence 

exists that X-rays were taken off site........................................................................................ 9
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ACRONYMS AND ABBREVIATIONS 

AWE Atomic Weapons Employers

CTW construction trade worker

DCAS Division of Compensation Analysis and Support

DOE U.S. Department of Energy

EEOICPA Energy Employees Occupational Illness Compensation Program Act of 2000

NIOSH National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health

ORAU Oak Ridge Associated Universities

SEC Special Exposure Cohort

SRDB Ref ID Site Research Database Reference Identification (number)

TIB technical information bulletin

U.S.C. United States Code

§ section or sections
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1.0 INTRODUCTION

Technical information bulletins (TIBs) are not official determinations made by the National Institute for 

Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) but are rather general working documents that provide 

historical background information and guidance to assist in the preparation of dose reconstructions at 

particular sites or categories of sites. They will be revised in the event additional relevant information 

is obtained about the affected site(s). TIBs may be used to assist NIOSH staff in the completion of 

individual dose reconstructions.

In this document, the word “facility” is used as a general term for an area, building, or group of 

buildings that served a specific purpose at a site. It does not necessarily connote an “atomic weapons 

employer facility” or a “Department of Energy (DOE) facility” as defined in the Energy Employees 

Occupational Illness Compensation Program Act of 2000 [42 U.S.C. § 7384l(5) and (12)].

The Energy Employees Occupational Illness Compensation Program Act of 2000 (EEOICPA) requires 

the assignment of external dose from medical X-ray examinations that were performed for 

occupational health screening and were required as a condition of employment. Many DOE and 

Atomic Weapons Employer (AWE) sites had their own medical clinics and equipment to perform 

medical X-ray screening of their workers. At some sites, however, and sometimes dependent on the 

timeframe, the sites contracted with private physicians, clinics, or local community hospitals to provide 

this service to workers.

The NIOSH interpretation of the EEOICPA statute affects how X-ray dose should be assigned when 

the X-rays were taken at a site or location that is not defined under the statute as a covered facility. 

This includes the scenario in which X-rays were taken at offsite locations, such as private physicians’ 

offices, clinics, or local community hospitals. The NIOSH interpretation is that the statute defines 

covered radiation as the radiation received by a covered employee at a covered facility during a 

covered period (NIOSH 2010). Except in limited circumstances concerning residual radiation, only 

radiation that the employee received while at a covered facility can be included in dose reconstruction. 

Any site profile stating or suggesting that offsite medical screening doses should be included will be 

revised to be consistent with this NIOSH interpretation.

2.0 GUIDANCE

If it is known that occupational medical X-ray dose was received at a location other than a covered 

facility (i.e., an offsite physician’s office, clinic, or local community hospital), it shall not be included in 

dose reconstruction. If there is doubt about where the X-ray exposure was received, dose 

reconstructors should assume that the dose was received at a covered facility.

3.0 DISCUSSION

Whether X-ray exposure was received at a covered facility is often discovered in the research process 

during the review and analysis of historical documentation and claim file records from a particular 

covered site. This information is then included in the site profile and/or Special Exposure Cohort 

(SEC) evaluation report for that site. Table 3-1 is a list of sites for which historical information has 

been found about X-rays administered to energy employees at offsite noncovered facilities. Table 3-1 

lists those sites along with appropriate periods of applicability.

When historical documentation does not provide needed information about where occupational X-rays 

might have been taken, the energy employee claim file records might contain evidence that some 

X-rays were taken off site. For example, X-ray request forms might contain a private physician’s, 

clinic’s, or hospital’s letterhead. This is not always adequate evidence that the X-rays were taken off

site, because many sites contracted with private radiologists for radiological interpretation of the 
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Table 3-1. Covered facilities that administered occupational X-rays at noncovered offsite facilities. 

Covered 

facility Noncovered (offsite) location

Applicable 

periods for 

X-rays at 

noncovered 

facilities Reference

Albany 

Research 

Center

Corvallis Clinic or private physicians’ offices in 

Albany, OR.

All Corvallis Clinic

1959–1986, 1972–

1986

Aliquippa Forge “The X-rays were taken by Dr. W. T. Rice of 

Rochester, Pa. ...but the X-ray films are retained in 

his office” (Tabershaw 1949a, p. 3).

All ORAUT 2015a, 

p. 23; Tabershaw 

1949a

Allied Chemical

Corp. Plant

“All new hires are given a pre-employment physical 

at the doctor’s office which includes a careful 

medical history, general health assessment by the 

physician and a chest X-ray...” (Freeman 1975, 

p. 178).

All ORAUT 2014a, 

p. 20; Freeman 1975

Ames 

Laboratory

“The X-ray equipment for occupational medical 

examinations of Ames Laboratory staff members 

was located at the Iowa State Student Health 

Center/College Hospital...” (ORAUT 2012a, p. 23).

All ORAUT 2012a; 

Voss 1957

Baker Brothers “Dr. Norwood made arrangements for chest 

X-rays....at the Robin Wood Hospital in Toledo....”

All Nickson 1943, p. 2

Battelle 

Columbus

“During the 1950s, there is evidence that the 

X-rays of Battelle workers were taken at a private 

physician’s office and included chest fluoroscopy” 

(ORAUT 2016a, p. 17).

All chest 

fluoroscopy

ORAUT 2016a, 

2010a

Battelle 

Columbus

“X-rays and blood counts are done at the 

University Hospital which is only a short distance 

from the Institute.” 

“...x-rays were performed on site in Health 

Services from the late 1950s to the early 1980s for 

Battelle staff that required them. Prior to this time 

period, the x-rays were provided at a physician’s 

office.”

1943–1956 Tabershaw 1949b, 

p. 3; Amstein 2008, 

p. 4 

BWX 

Technologies

Nearby physicians’ offices. All ORAUT 2016d, p. 3, 

ORAUT 2016e, p. 2, 

ORAUT 2016f, p. 2, 

ORAUT 2016g, p. 2

Extrusion Plant “Laboratory work, i.e. urinalyses, blood tests, and 

X-rays, is done at the local hospital, Ashtabula 

General” (Hibbitts and Pryor 1970, p. 8).

“Based on information in the claim file records, it 

appears that X-rays were taken off site at 

Ashtabula General Hospital through 1980”

(ORAUT 2017d, p. 23).

“...it is assumed that X-rays were taken on site 

from 1981 to 2006, when the site was 

decommissioned” (ORAUT 2017d, p. 23).

Before 1981 

and after 2006

Hibbitts and Pryor 

1970; ORAUT 

2017d, p. 23. 

Grand Junction Warren Bush “said the company doctor was 

Dr. Raso, who had an x-ray unit in his office in 

Grand Junction.”

1947–1961 and 

1970–2002

Stoller undated, p. 9

Kansas City 

Plant

“In 1997, medical X-ray services were outsourced;

...” (ORAUT 2017b, p. 20).

After 1996 ORAUT 2017b; 

Todd 2004, p. 3
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Covered 

facility Noncovered (offsite) location

Applicable 

periods for 

X-rays at 

noncovered 

facilities Reference

Kellex/Pierpont “It is understood that the only examination that will 

not be performed by Kellex personnel is the chest 

radiograph.”

All Beckerley 1948, p. 3

Lawrence 

Berkeley 

National 

Laboratory

“In the early years before about 1964, workers had 

their physical exams (including X-rays) in their 

private physicians’ offices ...” (ORAUT 2010c, 

p. 22).

“Doses for 1991 to 1995 are for the Picker 

machine, and for 1996 to the present ... 

employees have been sent off site for X-rays ...” 

(ORAUT 2010c, p. 23).

Before 1964 

and after 1995

ORAUT 2010c; 

Parker 1963; 

Grondona 2010

Linde Ceramics “Linde X-rays were performed off site at a noncovered commercial facility” (ORAUT 2015b, 

p. 67).

All ORAUT 2015b; 

Author unknown 

1948; Various

authors 1943–1950, 

pp. 30, 43, 50; 

Holmes 1944; 

Van Horn 1943 

Mallinckrodt “The annual chest x-rays and presumably the 

pelvic x-rays were taken at the Barnes Hospital 

(the Washington University School of Medicine) ... 

and the x-ray records remained the property of the 

hospital ...” (ORAUT 2010d, p. 108).

All ORAUT 2010d, 

p. 108; Quigley 

1950; Mason 1955, 

pp. 23, 35

Metallurgical 

Laboratory

“At first the dispensary facilities of Billings Hospital 

were used but after July 1944 Drexel House was 

used for this purpose.”

Before July 

1944

Author unknown 

1946, p. 27

Nevada Test 

Site

“Chest X-rays before 1960 were taken off the site 

at non-covered contractor facilities, probably 

physicians’ offices in Las Vegas” (ORAUT 2012b, 

p. 7).

1951–1959 (all) ORAUT 2012b, 

pp. 7, 10

Nevada Test 

Site

“During [1986–1995], workers continued to receive 

pre-employment physicals at contracted noncovered facilities in Las Vegas... These 

contractors might also have provided the periodic 

and termination chest X-rays if the worker was in 

Las Vegas” (ORAUT 2012b, p. 10).

1986–1995 

preemployment 

X-rays

ORAUT 2012b;

DeMarre 2012 

Nevada Test 

Site

“NTS sold and removed its X-ray equipment in 

1996. After this date, all radiographic services 

were contracted out to a variety of offsite, noncovered facilities in Las Vegas ...” (ORAUT 2012b, 

p. 10).

1996–present 

(all)

ORAUT 2012b;

DeMarre 2012; 

Moon 2012

Nuclear 

Materials and 

Equipment 

Corporation

“NUMEC apparently did not have its own medical 

“X-ray department during AEC operational years

and the medical X-rays for NUMEC employees 

appear to have been performed at a local clinic or 

hospital” (ORAUT 2017c, p. 34).

All ORAUT 2017c; 

Author unknown 

1978; Cain 1964; 

Wieland 1981; 

Quigley 1972

Pacific 

Northwest 

National 

Laboratory

“Since October 1, 2012, occupational medical 

X-rays for PNNL employees have been performed 

at the Kadlec Medical Center in Richland, 

Washington. Kadlec Medical Center is not a 

covered facility under EEOICPA for this time 

period; ....”

After 2012 ORAUT 2016b, 

p. 25
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Covered 

facility Noncovered (offsite) location

Applicable 

periods for 

X-rays at 

noncovered 

facilities Reference

Portsmouth 

Gaseous 

Diffusion Plant

DOE contractor personnel – X-rays performed at 

Southern Ohio Medical Center

2010- 2011 ORAUT 2016h

Portsmouth 

Gaseous 

Diffusion Plant

All personnel – Adena Occupational Health -

Waverly

April 2012 –

May 4, 2014

ORAUT 2016h

Sandia National 

Laboratories

“...the Sandia Base Army Hospital and the Kirtland 

Air Force Base Dispensary are not part of the 

EEOICPA covered facilities as they are outside the 

boundaries of DOE facilities.” 

X-rays taken at 

the Sandia Base 

Hospital or the 

Kirtland Air 

Force Base 

Dispensary

Anders 2015, p. 2

Simonds Saw 

and Steel

“Simonds X-rays were performed off site at a noncovered commercial facility” (ORAUT 2014c, 

p. 20).

All ORAUT 2014c; 

Tabershaw 1948 

Stanford Linear 

Accelerator 

Center

X-rays on Be workers performed at the Palo Alto 

Clinic.

All ORAUT 2007b, 

p. 20; Pinder 1965

University of 

Rochester

X-rays taken at Strong Memorial Hospital. All Dowdy 1947, p.5-7

Ventron 

Corporation

Some X-rays taken at the Beverly Hospital. Some Todd 1945, p. 17

West Valley “Chest X-rays for West Valley workers have always 

been performed at an offsite location” (ORAUT 

2007a, p. 51).

All ORAUT 2007a,

2010b, 2010e 

X-rays, even if the X-rays were obtained on the covered site, and the radiologist’s report might be on 

the office or clinic letterhead. Dose reconstructors should not include the dose from X-rays when it is 

clear from the claim file records that they were taken off site at a noncovered facility. When it is not 

clear where the X-rays were taken, dose reconstructors should include the dose. Dose reconstructors 

should consult the Project Principal Medical Dosimetrist if questions arise. 

When neither historical documentation nor claim file records provide the needed information about 

where the occupational X-rays might have been taken, dose reconstructors should assume that any 

occupational medical X-ray exposure occurred at the covered facility where the energy employee 

worked.

Table 3-2 lists the covered facilities where it is known that occupational medical X-rays were taken on 

site or at another covered facility, according to historical documentation. Table 3-2 also lists sites that 

might have had occupational medical X-rays taken at an offsite location, but for which this cannot be 

demonstrated with certainty at present. Dose reconstructors should, therefore, include X-ray dose in 

dose reconstructions for the sites in Table 3-2 unless there is evidence in the claim file records that 

the X-rays were taken at a noncovered facility.

Dose reconstructions are also performed for sites that might not be listed here. In reconstructing 

doses for these claims, dose reconstructors should use any available historical documentation or 

evidence in claim file records to assign X-ray dose in accordance with the guidance in this TIB. 

Where historical documentation of offsite X-ray doses has not been found and energy employee 

medical records are not provided, dose reconstructors should generally assume that occupational 

medical X-ray exposure occurred on site at the covered facility where the energy employee worked.
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X-ray dose assignment for construction trade workers (CTWs) should be the same as for other energy 

employees described in this TIB. In other words, dose reconstructors should assume that CTWs had 

X-rays taken on site at the covered facility where they worked, unless evidence shows that these 

X-rays were taken off site at a noncovered facility.

Table 3-2. Covered facilities that administered occupational X-rays on site, or for which no historical 

evidence exists that X-rays were taken off site. 

Covered facility Notes Reference

Albuquerque Operations 

Office

All years covered. None

Allied Chemical and Dye All years covered. None

Amchitka “A 100 kVp -200 mA X-ray machine and 

associated film processing equipment is 

provided [at a special building in the Huskey

Camp Area].”

Eberline 1973, p. 33.

Argonne National 

Laboratory – East

“...the status of the employee's health and 

ability to work through the use of X-ray, 

biochemical, hematological, and metabolic 

facilities which will be available at the Site D 

dispensary.”

Hasterlik 1949, p. 4.

Baker-Perkins Company All years covered NIOSH 2012c, p. 12

Battelle Columbusa 1957–2000 for King Ave, and 1957–present 

for West Jefferson.

NIOSH 2012b, p. 4;

NIOSH 2015a, p. 23

Bethlehem Steel 

Corporation

All years covered. NIOSH 2010, p. 29

Bliss and Laughlin Steel 

Company

All years covered. None

Blockson Chemical 

Company

All years covered. NIOSH 2014, p. 32

Bridgeport Brass All years covered. None

Brookhaven National 

Laboratory

All years covered. None

Canoga Avenue Facility All years covered. None

Carborundum Company All years covered. None

Chapman Valve All years covered. None

Clarksville Modification 

Center

All years covered. None

Clinton Engineer Works All years covered. None

Combustion Engineering All years covered. None

Connecticut Aircraft 

Nuclear Engine 

Laboratory

All years covered. None

Dayton Project (Units I, III, 

and IV)

All years covered. None

De Soto Avenue Facility All years covered. None

Dow Chemical Company All years covered. None

Dow Chemical Company 

(Madison Site)

All years covered. None

Downey Facility All years covered. None

DuPont Deepwater Works All years covered. NIOSH 2015b, p. 16

Electro Metallurgical All years covered. NIOSH 2015c, p. 34

Extrusion Planta 1981–2006 covered. ORAUT 2017d, p. 23
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Covered facility Notes Reference

Fernald “It is possible that some of the X-ray 

examinations were performed off the 

[Fernald] site at local area hospitals, but there 

does not seem to be a fixed pattern, and no 

clear evidence exists in relation to when or for 

whom this might have occurred.”

ORAUT 2014b, p. 8

General Atomics “A former GA nurse recalled that chest X-rays 

were required for beryllium workers and 

stated the X-ray examinations were 

conducted at La Jolla Radiology.” No 

historical documentation found to support this 

statement.

ORAUT 2008a, p. 46

General Electric Company 

(Ohio)

All years covered. None

General Steel All years covered. None

Grand Junctiona 1962–1969 covered. Author unknown ca. 2002, 

p. 10

Hanford X-rays taken at Kadlec Hospital from 

1944-1956 are now to be included in dose 

reconstruction, as the AEC owned Kadlec 

during this time.

Travis 1956

Harshaw “Continue to use the services of the 

Radiological Clinic or its equivalent, but all 

X-rays should be obtained from them and 

kept in a locked fireproof cabinet in the 

dispensary” (Belmore 1948, p. 123), or the 

“X-ray laboratory in Cleveland” (Tabershaw 

1950). 

Belmore 1948; 

Tabershaw 1950

Hood Building All years covered. None

Hooker Electrochemical All years covered. NIOSH 2011b, p. 14

Horizons All years covered. None

Huntington Pilot Plant All years covered. NIOSH 2013, pp. 18-19

Idaho National Laboratory 

and Argonne National 

Laboratory-West

“Offsite facilities might have been contracted 

to perform the examinations.” 

ORAUT 2009, p. 8

Iowa Army Ammunition 

Plant

All years covered. NIOSH 2011a, pp. 6–7.

Joslyn Manufacturing and 

Supply Company

All years covered. None

K-25 Plant All years covered. None

Kansas City Planta Before 1997 covered. ORAUT 2017b, p. 20; Todd 

2004, p. 3

Lake Ontario Ordnance 

Works

All years covered. None

Lawrence Berkeley 

National Laboratorya

1964–1995 covered. ORAUT 2010c, pp. 21–22; 

Parker 1963; Grondona 2010

Lawrence Livermore 

National Laboratory

All years covered. None

Los Alamos National 

Laboratory

All years covered. None

Medina Modification 

Center

Some records indicate the X-rays might have 

been taken off site at the Minter X-Ray Clinic.

Claim file records

Metallurgical Laboratorya July 1944 and later covered. Author unknown 1946, p. 27

Metals and Controls All years covered. None

Mound Plant All years covered. None
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Covered facility Notes Reference

Nevada Test Site 1960–1985 covered, 1986–1995 other than 

preemployment X-rays covered.

ORAUT 2012b, pp. 7, 10; 

DeMarre 2012; Moon, 2012

Norton Company All years covered. None

Nuclear Metals All years covered. NIOSH 2015d, p. 9

Oak Ridge National 

Laboratory

All years covered. None

Pacific Northwest National 

Laboratorya

Same as Hanford through September 30, 

2012.

ORAUT 2016b, p. 25.

Pacific Proving Ground “The dose reconstructor should use the 

occupational medical dose TBDs for the 

participant’s employers and associated DOE 

sites to determine X-ray dose.”

ORAUT 2016c, pp. 12–13

Paducah Gaseous 

Diffusion Plant

All years covered. None

Pantex Plant All years covered. None

Pinellas Plant All years covered. None

Piqua Organic Moderated 

Reactor

All years covered. None

Portsmouth Gaseous 

Diffusion Plant

1954-March 2012 (except 2010-2011 when 

Southern Ohio Medical Center records found 

in claim file)

May 5, 2014-present

ORAUT 2016h

Revere Copper and Brass All years covered. None

Rocky Flats Plant All years covered. None

S-50 Plant All years covered. None

SAM Laboratories, 

Columbia University

All years covered. None

Sandia National 

Laboratoriesa

X-rays are assumed to have been taken on 

site except those marked Sandia Base 

Hospital and/or Kirtland Air Force Base 

Dispensary.

Anders 2015

Sandia National 

Laboratories, Livermore

“The X-ray machine equipment was removed 

from the site in approximately 1990 ...” 

(ORAUT 2014d, p. 22). 

After 1990, X-rays were performed at 

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, a 

covered facility.

ORAUT 2014d; ORAUT 2006a

Santa Susana Field 

Laboratory (Area IV)

“By 1998, all radiographic examinations were 

subcontracted to West Hills Hospital in West 

Hills, California” (ORAUT 2008b, p. 10). No 

historical documentation found to support this 

statement.

ORAUT 2008b, pp. 10, 13

Savannah River Site All years covered. None

Spencer Chemical 

Company/Jayhawk Works

All years covered. None

St. Louis Airport Storage 

Site

All years covered. None

Standard Oil Company of 

New Jersey

All years covered. None

Superior Steel All years covered. None

Tennessee Valley 

Authority

All years covered. None

Texas City Chemicals All years covered. None

Titanium Alloy 

Manufacturing Company

All years covered. None
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Covered facility Notes Reference

Tyson Valley Powder 

Farm

All years covered. None

United Nuclear 

Corporation

All years covered. NIOSH 2017, p. 15

Ventron Corporationa Some X-rays taken at the Beverly Hospital. Todd 1945, p. 17; 

NIOSH 2012a, pp. 34–35.

Vitro Manufacturing All years covered. None

W. R. Grace (Tennessee) All years covered. None

Wah Chang All years covered. None

Weldon Spring Plant All years covered. None

Westinghouse Atomic 

Power Development Plant

All years covered. None

Westinghouse Electric 

Corporation (New Jersey)

All years covered. None

Winchester Engineering 

and Analytical Center

All years covered. None

Y-12 Plant All years covered. None

a. See also Table 3-1.

The guidance in this TIB supersedes previous guidance on the issue of assignment of X-ray dose at 

covered facilities that might be found in the following documents or in site profiles issued before this 

TIB:

• Revision 04 of ORAUT-OTIB-0006, Dose Reconstruction from Occupational Medical X-Ray 

Procedures (ORAUT 2011); 

• Revision 02 of ORAUT-OTIB-0052, Parameters to Consider When Processing Claims for 

Construction Trade Workers (ORAUT 2014e); 

• Revision 01 of ORAUT-PROC-0006, External Dose Reconstruction (ORAUT 2006b); and

• Revision 04 of ORAUT-PROC-0061, Occupational Medical X-Ray Dose Reconstruction for 

DOE Sites (ORAUT 2017a). 
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