The Under Secretary for Science Washington, DC 20585 June 6, 2019 Mr. Matthew Brewster Health Commissioner Pike County General Health District, 116 S. Market Street Waverly, Ohio 45690 Dear Mr. Brewster: The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) is committed to protecting the safety and health of the general public and our workforce. For decades, DOE’s Environmental ‘Management (EM) program has maintained a robust environmental monitoring program in communities across the Nation. As you know, in the area of Portsmouth, there is continuous sampling of air quality at six air monitoring stations on DOE property and ten air monitoring stations in the surrounding community, and if at any time, data from a ‘monitoring station exceeds health and safety standards, DOE would immediately not the appropriate state and local officials. In response to recent events at Zahn’s Comer Middle School, Secretary Perry asked EM to perform a comprehensive review of the longtime monitoring process at the Portsmouth Gaseous Diffusion Plant in Piketon, Ohio. During this review, we were notified by our contractor, Fluor-BWXT Portsmouth, LLC (EBP), on May 28, 2019, that a minor miscalculation resulted in under-reporting of certain individual dose rates provided in several reports, including the 2001 to 2017 Annual Site Environmental Reports and the 2001 to 2017 annual National Emission Standards for Hazardous Air Pollutants Reports submitted to the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency (Ohio EPA). The contractor discovered the error in its calculations used to convert measured air monitor data to individual dose. The contractor corrected the error, and after recalculating, the revised individual dose rates remain far below health and safety standards. Furthermore, at DOE's direction, qualified professionals at two of its National Laboratories confirmed the contractor's corrected calculations and found that the resulting dose levels remain far below EPA limits and are not a public health concern. This error had no effect on the compilation data from 2015 through the first quarter of 2019, which DOE released in May 2019. DOE continues to support your desire for a third party study to be conducted by an entity of your choosing. We await your selection of qualified entities, as discussed in your initial meeting in May with DOE. @We appreciate your support and look forward to continuing to work with you and state officials. If you need additional information, please contact me or Robert Edwards, Manager of the Portsmouth/Paducah Project Office, at (859) 227-5020. Sincerely, Pad MO bor Paul M. Dabbar ce: Scioto Valley School Board Robert Edwards, Manager Portsmouth/Paducah Project Office