Agenda, minutes, organization charts, correspondence, memoranda, reports, statistics, notes, vitae, clippings, applications, legislative bills, printed materials, and articles (1961-1998) comprise the records of the Texas Radiation Advisory Board (TRAB). Records document the relationship between the Board and the Bureau of Radiation Control of the Texas Department of Health. TRAB considers these records to be the minutes and agendas of their meetings, although a wide variety of correspondence, reports, and other related materials have been included in the documentation. Correspondents include the federal Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC), the Texas Water Commission, the South Texas Chapter of the Health Physics Society, the Texas Medical Association (TMA), private physicians, and members of the legislature. Matters taken under consideration or review by the board include changes to Texas Regulations for Control of Radiation; activities of the Low-Level Radioactive Waste Disposal Authority; the regulation of naturally occurring radioactive material (NORM) as, for example, in the oil and gas industries; physician training and licensure; relevant upcoming legislation; radioactive waste disposal sites; and activities of the Health Department relating to radiation control. Some records pertain to recommendations made by the Sunset Commission concerning the continuation of the Radiation Advisory Board. The board appears to have met quarterly with special meetings held as necessary. Minutes and meeting files are grouped roughly by date of meeting, correspondence files are grouped roughly by year. After 1990, the normal chronological arrangement of minute files is not followed. All records have been microfilmed by the Radiation Advisory Bureau and, thus, all fasteners have been removed and the majority of materials have been left loose or placed in manila envelopes.

To prepare this preliminary inventory, the described materials were cursorily reviewed to delineate series, to confirm the accuracy of contents lists, to provide an estimate of dates covered, and to determine record types.