File:Contextual view of EPA Farm showing cattle shelter, facing southeast. - Nevada Test Site, Environmental Protection Agency Farm, Area 15, Yucca Flat, 10-2 Road near Circle Road, HABS NEV,12-MERC.V,3-6.tif

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Contextual view of EPA Farm showing cattle shelter, facing southeast. - Nevada Test Site, Environmental Protection Agency Farm, Area 15, Yucca Flat, 10-2 Road near Circle Road, Mercury, Nye County, NV
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Edward B. Hendricks Associates; Sierra Construction Company; Holmes and Narvar, Incorporated; Atomic Energy Commission (AEC); Nevada Proving Ground; Energy Research and Development Administration (ERDA); Department of Energy (DOE); Reynolds Electric and Engineering Company, Incorporated; Atlas Steel Company; RSL Photographic Services, contractor; Desert Research Institute, contractor; Carey and Company, Inc., contractor; Smith, Rick, photographer; Johnson, William Gray, historian; Goldenberg, Nancy G, historian
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Contextual view of EPA Farm showing cattle shelter, facing southeast. - Nevada Test Site, Environmental Protection Agency Farm, Area 15, Yucca Flat, 10-2 Road near Circle Road, Mercury, Nye County, NV
Depicted place Nevada; Nye County; Mercury
Date Documentation compiled after 1933
Dimensions 4 x 5 in.
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Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
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HABS NEV,12-MERC.V,3-6
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  • Significance: The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Farm has been determined eligible to the National Register of Historic Places because of its association with historical and scientific events of exceptional importance. Variously known as the EPA Farm, U.S. Public Health Service (USPHS) Farm, NTS Farm Complex, and experimental farm, it was an experimental facility designed to study the effects of radioactive fallout on animal tissue and especially on the fodder-cow-milk food chain. As one of the programs that developed out of the Limited Test Ban Treaty of 1963, the EPA Farm is part of the legacy of radiation-related health concerns generated by the Cold War. The facility was decommissioned effective December 31, 1981 (although use of one of the buildings [15-06] continued as an abattoir for semi-annual beef sacrifice and quarterly deer collection, as well as storage of samples and equipment into the mid-1990s).
  • Survey number: HABS NV-28
  • Building/structure dates: 1964 Initial Construction
  • Building/structure dates: 1965 Subsequent Work
  • Building/structure dates: 1966 Subsequent Work
  • Building/structure dates: ca. 1968 Subsequent Work
  • Building/structure dates: 1973 Subsequent Work
Source https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/nv0225.photos.380576p
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Object location36° 39′ 38.02″ N, 115° 59′ 37″ W Kartographer map based on OpenStreetMap.View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMapinfo

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