Over the past year, CECS has continued to pursue funding for the Fernald Living History Project (FLHP), an effort to preserve and record Fernald-area community histories. In addition, the FLHP Volunteer Advisory Group solicited community interest in the project during Summer 1998 at two local festivals.
       Summertime activities also included the production of a promotional video for the FLHP by CECS with help from Fluor Daniel Fernald (FDF, site remediation contractor) Multi-media Visual Services. CECS researchers interviewed six community members and workers for the video, which was shown at various public meetings to clarify the project concept and encourage additional community involvement. Additional support for the project has been solicited through the establishment of a project web site (http://offo2.epa.state.oh.us/flhp.htm), developed by the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency’s Office of Federal Facilities Oversight.
      Most recent developments related to the projectinclude: a shift in meeting facilitation from CECS to a community member; and a DOE-funded effort to conduct 80-100 interviews with workers and community members by the end of fiscal year 1999, in order to document a Fernald site history. Full-length copies of the interviews will be available in the Public Environmental Information Center, the public repository for DOE and FDF documents.
     During the coming year, CECS will pursue funding for interviews that preserve Fernald-area community histories through various grant application. CECS researchers will also begin documenting their experiences with this community-university partnership through papers and presentations at various academic conferences.

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