I did work at EPA's Superfund HQ a number of years ago, and I can attest to
the fact that their Office of Solid Waste and Emergency Response (OSWER)
Emergency Response Team (ERT) spends a good deal of time assisting other
nation's with remediation of environmental disasters and the like.  I went
to their office in New Jersey to conduct an inventory of their records and
much of the staff was away doing this type of work.

Tod Chernikoff, CRM, CIP
Silver Spring MD 
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From: Records Management Program [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf
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Subject: Re: Secret Man Caves Found in EPA Warehouse

>
> In my many years in records management I have come across conditions 
> such as this in a couple of instances although I can't remember ever 
> seeing a box of passports.


I'm relatively new to the field--especially federal records--but passports
probably aren't so far-fetched. If EPA staff has to go to a U.S. Territory
(the Mariana Islands, for example) I think they may clear passport and
customs control in a sovereign nation (Japan in that instance) so they're
issued diplomatic passports prior to departure from the States. When they
return, the passports are surrendered. Regardless, would be interesting to
know WHY the passports were there.

-Dan Hoare
Contract Federal Records Specialist
Alexandria, Virginia

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