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    Groom Lake Area 51 Letter Air Force

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    - The document is a letter from the Air Force responding to concerns about their actions to address PFOS/PFOA contamination at and around the former Wurtsmith Air Force Base in Michigan. - It explains that documents from the information repository for the base were removed from a library in 2008-2009 at the librarian's request, but were duplicates of documents available online. - It also notes that recordings of meetings from the 1990s were transcribed and then destroyed, and that while the Air Force owns the documents, community participation is welcome in restoration meetings between the Air Force and Michigan experts.

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    Groom Lake Area 51 Letter Air Force

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    - The document is a letter from the Air Force responding to concerns about their actions to address PFOS/PFOA contamination at and around the former Wurtsmith Air Force Base in Michigan. - It explains that documents from the information repository for the base were removed from a library in 2008-2009 at the librarian's request, but were duplicates of documents available online. - It also notes that recordings of meetings from the 1990s were transcribed and then destroyed, and that while the Air Force owns the documents, community participation is welcome in restoration meetings between the Air Force and Michigan experts.

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    USAF letter to Groom Lake Air Force Test Facility

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    - The document is a letter from the Air Force responding to concerns about their actions to address PFOS/PFOA contamination at and around the former Wurtsmith Air Force Base in Michigan. - It explains that documents from the information repository for the base were removed from a library in 2008-2009 at the librarian's request, but were duplicates of documents available online. - It also notes that recordings of meetings from the 1990s were transcribed and then destroyed, and that while the Air Force owns the documents, community participation is welcome in restoration meetings between the Air Force and Michigan experts.

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    Groom Lake Area 51 Letter Air Force

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    - The document is a letter from the Air Force responding to concerns about their actions to address PFOS/PFOA contamination at and around the former Wurtsmith Air Force Base in Michigan. - It explains that documents from the information repository for the base were removed from a library in 2008-2009 at the librarian's request, but were duplicates of documents available online. - It also notes that recordings of meetings from the 1990s were transcribed and then destroyed, and that while the Air Force owns the documents, community participation is welcome in restoration meetings between the Air Force and Michigan experts.

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    DEPARTMENT OF THE AIR FORCE 
       
    DET. WASHINGTON, DC 
    3 AFFTC - GROOM
      LAKE
     
      GROOM LAKE, LINCOLN COUNTY, NV
     
     
     
    OFFICE OF THE ASSISTANT SECRETARY 
    DEPARTMENT OF SECURITY
    CHIEF SECURITY FLIGHT OFFICER
     
    Mr. Tim Cummings 
    Mr. John Danker  
    Trustee, Oscoda Township Board of Trustees 
    EG&G Representative  
    Groom Lake, 4th Street, NV  
    Township Representative, Wurtsmith AFB Restoration Advisory Board     
     
     
    Dear
    Dear Mr.
     Mr.Cummings:
    Danker:  
    Dear Mr. Cummings: 
     
         
    Thank you for your recent email expressing concern with Air Force actions to respond to 

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    the presence of PFOS/PFOA at and around the former Wurtsmith Air Force Base in Oscoda, 
           
    Michigan ("Wurtsmith"). We have addressed each of your points below.      
     
     
    The Air Force information repository for the former Wurtsmith Air Force Base was     
     
    created in the early­to­mid 1990s. The Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation 

    U
         
    and Liability Act (CERCLA) requires the lead federal agency for a cleanup to establish and   
    maintain an administrative record and an information repository. The administrative record  
       
    contains the documents that form the basis for the selection of environmental response actions at   
     
    a facility. The information repository contains all portions of the administrative record that are   
     
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    not privileged or confidential, as well as documents associated with the restoration advisory   
    board.    
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    The Air Force removed the hard copy documents in the information repository from the     
       
    Robert J. Parks Library in the 2008­2009 timeframe at the request of the librarian, who advised   
     
    that no one was accessing the files and the files took up too much space. Before disposing of     
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    these documents, the Air Force confirmed that the documents were duplicates of documents   
           
    maintained at Wurtsmith, and had been copied, scanned and made publicly available as part of   
     
    the online administrative record (http://afcec.publicadmin­record.us.af.mil/). If you wish to  
    review the hard copy documents located at Wurtsmith, the Air Force team will work with you to     
    FF

       
    schedule a convenient time. Please contact Bay West at 989­965­0359 to set up an appointment.   
    In 2017, the Air Force renewed its practice of providing the library hard copy environmental  
    response documents concerning Wurtsmith.   
     
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    With respect to ownership of    the documents included in the information repository, 
        Air 
     
    Force information repositories—hard copies, electronic, web, etc.— are property of the Air   
     
    Force. With regard to tape recordings that Mr. Eppert witnessed during BCTs in the 1990s, the   
     
    recordings were made in order to create the written minutes and were not kept after they were 
    transcribed.  
     
         
    Second, your email also expresses a desire for the community to participate in BRAC   
    cleanup team (BCT) meetings. The Wurtsmith BCT is composed of environmental managers and   
       
    subject matter experts from the Air Force and Michigan, working together as a team to address   
     
    environmental restoration issues. The Air Force follows BCT guidance in the Defense   

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