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.,An Affirmative ACUOrr/EquaIOpportunity Empbyei

Thik report was prepared by Kathy Derouin, Lois Schneider, and Mary LouKeigher, Group H-8.

DMIAfhiER

TM zeport was prepared as an accocmt of work sponsored by an agency of the United States Covcrnment.Neither the United States Covcrnment norany agency thereof, nor any of their employees, maka anywarzmty, express or impEed, or aaauma any legal tiability or rcsponaiiility for the accuracy, campleteneaa,or uacftdoas of acry information, apparatus, product, or procers disclosed, or repreacrrta that its usc wouldnot Infringe privately owned rights. References herein to any SPCCUICcommercial product, procas, oracrvtce by trade name, trademark, mandacturer, or otherwise, does not nmasarify constitute or imply itsemdorscment, recommendation, or favoring by the United States Government or any agency thereof. Theview and opinions of authors expressed herein do not necessarily state or reflect those of the UnitedStata Covcrnment or any agency thereof.

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Supplementary Documentation for anEnvironmental Impact Statement

Regarding the Pantex Plant

A Comparison of County andState Cancer Mortality Rates

L. D. WiggsG. S. WilkinsonG. L.Tietjen

J. F.Acquavella

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LA-9445-PNTX-P

Issued: December 1982

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ABOUT THIS REPORT
This official electronic version was created by scanning the best available paper or microfiche copy of the original report at a 300 dpi resolution. Original color illustrations appear as black and white images. For additional information or comments, contact: Library Without Walls Project Los Alamos National Laboratory Research Library Los Alamos, NM 87544 Phone: (505)667-4448 E-mail: [email protected]
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SUPPLEMENTARY DOCUMENTATION FOR AN ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT STATEMENTREGARDING THE PANTEX PLANT:

A COMPARISON OF COUNTY AND STATE

by

L. D. Wiggs, G. S. Wilkinson, G. L. T

ABSTRACT

CANCER MORTALITY RATES

etjen, and J. F. Acquave”la

This report documents work performed in support of preparation of anEnvironmental Impact Statement (EIS) regarding the Department of Energy’sPantex Plant near Amarillo, Texas.

This report considers cancer mortality rates in the region surroundingthe Pantex nuclear weapons facility. The working hypothesis was thatincreased cancer mortality rates would exist in counties proximal to thePantex Plant. To evaluate this hypothesis, we compared age-adjusted cancermortality rates for the six surrounding counties with Texas state rates forthree time periods: 1950 to 1959, 1960 to 1969, and 1970 to 1978. Thesecomparisons showed that cancer mortality rates for Carson County (where theplant is located) and the five adjacent and downwind counties were notsignificantly different from rates for the State of Texas.

I. INTRODUCTION

This report documents work performed in support of preparation of anEnvironmental Impact Statement (EIS) regarding the Department of Energy’sPantex Plant near Amarillo, Texas. That EIS addresses continuing nuclearweapons operations at Pantex and the construction of additional facilities tohouse those operations. The EIS was prepared in accordance with currentregulations under the National Environmental Policy Act. Regulations of theCouncil on Environmental Quality (40 CFR 1500) require agencies to prepareconcise EISS with less than 300 pages for complex projects. This report wasprepared by Los Alamos National Laboratory to document details of workperformed and supplementary information considered during preparation of theDraft EIS.

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Recently, there has been increasing nationwide interest in the health of

residents living near nuclear and chemical industrial sites. In Amarillo,Texas, this interest has been directed toward individuals living near thePantex Plant, a nuclear weapons production facility.

To address this concern, we compared age-adjusted cancer mortality inthis region with mortality for the State of Texas. The wrking hypotheseswere that (1) cancer mortality rates in this region were significantly higherthan rates for Texas, and that (2) these elevated rates would follow ageographic pattern consistent with the pattern of ambient emissions from theplant.

We selected cancer as the health endpoint of interest because of thelarge body of literature supporting the association between cancer andexposures to radiation and chemicals. Investigations of radiation-inducedcancers have demonstrated (1) increased mortality from leukemia, cancers ofthe thyroid, breast, lung, urinary organs, stomach, and lymphomas among theJapanese atomic bomb survivors (Beebe 1978); (2) increased incidence oftumors of the brain, thyroid, and parotid among tinea capitis patientstreated with x-ray therapy during childhood (Shore 1976); (3) excessmortality from leukemia, cancers of the pharynx, bronchi, skin, liver,pancreas, and lymphatic and hemopoietic cancers in ankylosing spondyliticstreated with therapeutic x rays (Court Brown 1965); (4) excess breast cancerin wmen treated with x rays for postpartum mastitis (Shore 1977); and (5)increased mortality from leukemias and cancers of the bone, liver, and lungin Portuguese thorotrast patients (Horta 1978).

Investigations of chemically related cancers have shown (1) excesses ofangiosarcoma, brain cancer, and respiratory cancers among vinyl chlorideworkers (Tabershaw 1974, Waxweiler 1976); (2) lymphatic leukemias amongworkers exposed to solvents (McMichael 1975); and (3) excess nmrtality fromrespiratory cancers among chromiun workers (Satoh 1981). Several recentarticles (Cole 1980, Tomatis 1976, Tomatis 1978) have summarized andattempted to quantify the associations between cancer and chemical exposures.

Other studies in the past have examined cancer mortality in the regionssurrounding nuclear or chemical industries. Lambert (1980) and Grahn (1975)examined cancer mortality in the vicinity of the Big Rock Point nuclearreactor in Charlevoix County, Michigan. Both studies reported that cancermortality rates were not significantly different from rates for the State ofMichigan.

Two recent investigations in counties with a heavy concentration ofeither chemical (Hoover 1975) or petroleum (Blot 1977) industries reportedexcess rates for “all cancers,” cancers of the lung, skin, and other sites.These studies compared county cancer mortality rates with rates for the

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United States (chemical industry study) or with rates for selected control

counties (petroleum industry study).

II. CHARACTERISTICS OF PLANT OPERATIONS

Since 1951, the mission of the Pantex Plant has been to assemble anddisassemble nuclear weapons. In addition, the facility maintains weapons forthe national nuclear stockpile, develops and synthesizes small amounts ofchemical high explosives (HE), and performs quality assurance and testing ofweapons (USERDA 1976).

III. EXPOSURES FROM PLANT OPERATIONS

The Pantex Plant handles a variety of chemical and radioactive elementsincluding (1) solvents and adhesives; (2) chemical HE; and (3) uranium,tritium, and plutonium. As with most studies of this nature, currentemissions records are superior compared to earlier records. Therefore, it isdifficult to estimate the potential radioactive and chemical exposuresreceived by individuals living near the plant during early Pantex operations.For this reason, we must rely on current data to estimate exposures.

IV. CURRENT RADIOACTIVE EXPOSURES

In 1981, extensive environmental monitoring was conducted at the PantexPlant. Levels of gross alpha, gross beta, and total uranium in water samplesreflected naturally occurring levels of these components. Levels of ‘3”7CS,238pu, 239Pu, and tritium were at or below the limits of detection (Purtymun1982A) .

Monitoring of air and soil detected no measurable levels of radioactivecontamination offsite. Consequently, computer modeling was used to estimatepotential environmental doses below the detection limit of current analytictechniques (Buhl 1982). The estimated annual whole body dose was determinedto be (at a maximum) less than 1 mrem for individuals in the surroundingpopulation. This estimate is less than 1% of the exposure received fromnaturally occurring background radiation (Buhl 1982).

v. CURRENT NONRADIOACTIVE EXPOSURES

Air and water contamination represent the tm potential sources ofnonradioactive exposures for the surrounding population. Water samples fromthe Pantex supply wells and Ogallala Aquifer test wells met all primary andsecondary federal drinking water standards (Purtymun 1982B).

A review of purchasing records for toxic materials used in the plantindicated that burning of waste HE and the disposal of waste organic solvent

through evaporation represented the major sources of nonradioactive airborne

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emissions (Macdonell 1982). Macdonell (1982) modeled the dispersionconcentrations of potential airborne emissions for commonly used wastesolvents and waste HE. These estimated concentrations meet all EnvironmentalProtection Agency (EPA) air quality standards and all Texas Air QualityRegulations. In addition, these concentrations are within the DOE’soccupational exposure standards (Macdonell 1982).

VI. METHODS

The purpose of this investigation was to evaluate the workingthat cancer mortality rates in the region surrounding the Pantex P“exceeded cancer mortality rates in the State of Texas.

hypothesisant

Meteorological data (Bowen 1981) were used to determine the countiesmost likely to be exposed to emissions from plant operations. These dataindicated that air concentrations resulting from plant emissions woulddecrease rapidly with increasing distance from the plant. People livingwithin a 10-km radius of the plant were expected to have had the highestpotential for exposure from these emissions. The prevailing winds woulddirect plant emissions toward the north and east of the plant. On this basis,the study region (Fig. 1) was defined as (1) the two counties (Carson andPotter) adjacent to the plant, and (2) the three downwind counties

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(Hutchinson, Roberts, and Gray) to the north and east of the plant. Becausea portion of the major population center in the area, the City of Amarillo,is located in Randall County, cancer mrtality rates for Randall County werealso evaluated.

The region studied contained a population of 203,000 persons accordingto the 1970 census (US Bureau of the Census 1973). Only a small part of thispopulation resides within the 10-km radius of the plant. In 1980, there were155 residents within an 8-km radius and 934 within a 16-km radius. Of thoseliving within the 16-km radius, only 155 live to the north and east(downwind) of the plant (LATA 1982).

County data were used for this investigation because mortality data werenot available for smaller geographic units. Texas was chosen as theappropriate comparison group because (1) Texas state rates are morerepresentative of the region than US rates, and (2) state rates are morestable than county rates. We examined the percentage of the state populationresiding in urban areas and found that it was similar to that of the studyregion (Table I). Age, sex, and race characteristics were controlled by theuse of sex- and race-specific, age-adjusted rates. The percentage of personsof Hispanic heritage represents a possible confounding factor not controlledin these analyses. In 1970, the percentage of persons of Hispanic heritagefor Texas was 18.4% compared with a range of <1.0 to 8.0% for the counties in

TABLE I

PERCENTAGE OF POPULATION LIVING IN URBAN AREAS* - 1970

Total Population Per Cent of Urban**

State of TexasSix-County Study Region

Carson CountyGray CountyHutchinson CountyPotter CountyRanda-11 CountyRoberts County

11 195 431203 096

6 35826 94924 44390 51153 885

950

79.885.500.080.368.495.690.400.0

*Source: US Bureau of the Census 1973.**Urban refers to incorporated and unincorporated places with >2500inhabitants (US Bureau of the Census 1973).

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TABLE II

PERCENTAGE OF THE POPULATION OF SPANISH HERITAGE*

Region

State of Texas

Carson County, TexasGray County, TexasHutchinson County, TexasPotter County, TexasRandall County, TexasRoberts County, Texas

Per Cent Spanish**

18.4

.-.***

2.52.98.03.2---***

*Source: US Bureau of the Census 1973.**Spanish is defined as persons reporting Spanish as their “mother tongue”

(US Bureau of the Census 1973).***Percentage not calculated when less than 400 members of the population

possess a given characteristic (US Bureau of the Census 1973).

the study region (Table II) (US Bureau of the Census 1973). Because Mexican-Americans, in general, tend to have low cancer mortality rates (Menck 1975),this bias would elevate our mortality rate ratios and result in aconservative estimate of cancer rmrtality in the study region.

Mortality ratios were calculated by comparing age-adjusted cancermortality rates (Riggan in press)* for counties in the study region withrates for the State of Texas. These mortality rate ratios and theirassociated exact 95% confidence intervals (Pearson 1966) served as the basisfor statistical evaluation. A rate ratio of 1.00 indicated no differencebetween county and state rates. A chi-squared goodness-of-fit test (Bowker1972) and sign tests (Bowker 1972) were used to determine whether significantmortality rate ratios displayed patterns. Although mortality rate ratios werecomputed for white males and white females for three time periods (1950 to1959, 1960 to 1969, and 1970 to 1978), our interest centered on the 1960s and1970s because of the long latent periods required for most cancers.

*These analyse-swere based on an advance copy (dated April 1982) of thecancer mortality atlas (Riggan in press). These age-adjusted rates were basedon extrapolated age-specific populations for the 1970s.

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TABLE III

CANCER SITES INCLUDED IN THE INVESTIGATION OF CANCER MORTALITYIN THE REGION SURROUNDING THE PANTEX PLANT

Cancer Sites

All cancers combinedBladder and other urinary organsBone, including jawBrain and nervous systemBreastKidney and ureterLarge intestineLarynxLeukemiasLiver, gallbladder and bileducts

LungLymphosarcoma , reticulum cellsarcoma

Multiple myelomaPancreasProstateStomachTestisThyroid gland

ICDA-8*

140-207188, 189.9170191, 192174189.0-189.2153161204-207155, 156, 197.8

162, 163.0, 163.9200, 202

203157185151186193

*Eighth Revision, International Classification of Diseases (USDHEW 1968).

To limit the number of chance associations, we restricted our analysesto cancers (Table III) previously associated with radiation or chemicalexposures. Cancer of the testis was added because of public interest (Tiede1980) .

VII. RESULTS

Tables IV and V list mortality rate ratios that differ significantlyfrom the null value (i.e. 1.00). A complete listing of all cancer sites iscontained in the Appendix. In general the number of ratios that weresignificantly different is consistent with the number expected.

Cancer mortality in the region around Pantex did not follow a patternthat would suggest a relationship between cancer mortality and exposures toambient emissions. Carson County, which contains the plant and was,

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County

HutchinsonPotter

GrayHutchinsonPotter

Randal 1

Gray

PotterRandal 1Roberts

TABLE IV

SIGNIFICANTLY ELEVATED MORTALITY RATE RATIOS FORSELECTED TEXAS COUNTIES (1950-1978)

Site

StomachBoneKidney

LiverLarge intestineKidneyMultiple myelomaLeukemia

All cancersLymphosarcomaProstateBrainLeukemia

No. ofSex Deaths

1950to 1959

M 18M 12M 19

1960to 1969

F 11M 17M 24M 14M 19

1970to 1978

M 272M 14M 80F 15F 3

Ratio*

1.772.471.74

2.431.901.652.171.84

1.142.091.281.95

12.39

ConfidenceInterval**

1.05-2.801.27-4.311.05-2.72

1.21-4.351.11-3.051.06-2.451.18-3.641.11-2.88

1.00-1.281.14-3.511.01-1.591.09-3.212.56-36.22

*County rate divided by the state rate.**Exact 95% confidence interval (Pearson 1966).

therefore, most likely to receive the heaviest ambient exposures, displayedno significantly elevated mortality rate ratios (1950 to 1978). Mortalityrate ratios (for n > 5) for Carson County (1970 to 1978) are presented inTable VI.

The mortality rate ratios for the study region as a whole weredistributed as expected based on statistical chance alone. A chi-squaredgoodness-of-fit test demonstrated that the number of significantly differentmortality rate ratios observed in each of the three time periods was notsignificantly different from the number expected (a= 0.05) (Table VII).

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County

Gray

HutchinsonPotter

Randal 1

Roberts

GrayHutchinsonPotterRandal 1

CarsonHutchinsonPotterRandal 1

TABLE V

SIGNIFICANTLY LOW MORTALITY RATE RATIOS FORSELECTED TEXAS COUNTIES (1950-1978)

Site

LeukemiaStomachLeukemiaLiverLymphosarcomaAll cancersLungAll cancers

ProstateLiverLiverAll cancersLiverLungLung

LungLeukemiaLiverLung

No. ofSex Deaths

1950to 1959

F 1M 7M 4M 2M 5M 59M 11F 1

1960 to 1969

M 11M 1M 7M 177F 1M 45F 4

1970to 1978

M 10rd 2F 9M 86

Ratio*

0.100.470.270.170.330.600.540.14

0.550.170.420.840.090.680.38

0.470.200.490.79

ConfidenceInterval**

0.00-0.570.19-0.970.07-0.690.02-0.600.11-0.780.45-0.770.27-0.970.00-0.78

0.27-0.980.00-0.950.17-0.850.72-0.970.00-0.510.50-0.910.10-0.96

0.22-0.860.02-0.700.22-0.930.63-0.97

*County rate divided by the state rate.**Exact 95% confidence interval (Pearson 1966).

An analysis using the sign test (Bowker 1972) showed that 29 of 36 sex-county-decade specific groups demonstrated no difference in the number ofcancer mortality rate ratios above and below unity. The remaining seven sex-county-decade specific groups had significantly more cancer rate ratios lessthan one. A second sign test (Bowker 1972) demonstrated that there was not a

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TABLE VI

MORTALITY RATE RATIOS FOR SELECTEDCARSON COUNTY, TEXAS, COMPARED WITH THE STATE

Cancer Site

All cancers combinedBreastLarge intestine

LeukemiaLung

Males

CANCER SITES:OF TEXAS, 1970 TO 1978’

No. of

Deaths ConfidenceICDA-8** (N) Ratio Interval——

140-207 48 0.77 0.57-1.03174 0 -- --

153 6 1.31 0.48-2.85

204-207 6 1.98 0.73-4.30

FemalesNo. of

Deaths Confidence(N) Ratio Interval— —

41 0.96 0.69-1.317 0.88 0,35-1.8090

162,163.0,163.9 10 0.47 0.22-O.86*** 5

1.72 0.78-3.26-- --

0.94 0.30-2.18

*Limited to cancers where N > 5.**Eighth Revision, International Classification of Diseases (USDHEW 1968

●**significantly lower than expected: 95% CI.

TABLE VII

CHI-SQUARED GOODNESS-OF-FIT TEST FOR NUMBER OF SIGNIFICANTLYDIFFERENT CANCER MORTALITY RATE RATIOS

Observed Number Expected NumberTime of Significant of Significant

Period Results Results*

1950-1959 11.0 10.21960-1969 12.0 10.21970-1978 9.0 10.2

X2(1 degreeof freedom)

0.0630.3180.141

Probability**

0.8020.5730.707

*Expected number based on a = 0.05.**Probability of obtaining a value larger than the one given (Rothman 1979).

significant difference between the number of significantly high andsignificantly low results for each decade (1950 to 1959, 1960 to 1969, or1970 to 1978) or for the entire period (1950 to 1978) (Table VIII).

VIII. DISCUSSION

These resultsregion surrounding

demonstrate that county cancer mortality rates in thethe Pantex Plant were not unusual when compared to rates

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TABLE VIII

SIGN TEST FOR HIGH AND LOWCANCERMORTALITYRATIOS

Number Number NumberSignificantly Significantly of

Time Period Hiah Low Trials

1950-1959 3 8 111960-1969 5 7 121970-1978 5 4. 91950-1978 13 19 32

*If below or equal to this value, the null hypothesis1972) .

**NS = Not Significant at a= 0.05.

CriticalValue* forSign Test(a = 0.05) Result

1 NS**

2 NS1 NS9 NS

is rejected (Bowker

for the State of Texas. This indicates that the past operations of the PantexPlant are unlikely to have affected cancer mortality in this region.

Some of the rate ratios differed significantly (a= 0.05) from the nullvalue of 1.00. These significant rate ratios probably represent a chanceoccurrence because (1) a chi-squared goodness-of-fit test confirmed that thenumber of significant rate ratios (in each time period) was not greater thanthe number expected by chance alone (a= 0.05); (2) a sign test indicatedthat when there was a difference in the number of rates above and belowunity, there were significantly more ratios <1.000; and (3) a sign testdemonstrated that the number of significantly high results was not differentfrom the number of significantly low results.

Because a long latent period would be necessary for cancers related tothe operations of the Pantex Plant to develop, we concentrated our emphasison comparisons of rates for the 1960s and 1970s. Comparisons for both the1960s and 1970s did not indicate any pattern of significant excesses incancer mortality for the study area.

The significantly elevated mortality rate ratios were not distributed ina fashion consistent with estimated air concentrations of plant emissionsthat decrease rapidly as the distance from the plant increases. Because mostof Carson County lies to the north and east of the plant (in the path of theprevailing winds), it should receive the heaviest exposures to air emissionsand, therefore, should be the best indicator of effects resulting from the

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operations of the plant. Carson County did not display any significantly highmortality rate ratios. This observation further supports the conclusion thatsignificant ratios observed in the other counties were random statisticalevents. There is no reason to suspect that more distant counties woulddisplay effects related to plant operations when the most proximal countydisplayed no effects.

The results of this study should be interpreted in light of itslimitations. First, the region consists of counties with 1970 populationsranging from 950 to 90,511 (US Bureau of the Census 1973). Many of the age-adjusted cancer mortality rates for these relatively small populationcounties were based on few deaths. This results in unstable rates with largevariances that limit our ability to detect significant differences with thecorresponding state rates.

A second limitation was that the cancer mortality data (Riggan in press)were not specifically generated to study the Pantex Plant. Only county-,state-, and national-level data were available, and therefore, ourcomparisons were limited. We were unable to compare those individuals livingwithin the 10-km radius of Pantex with suitable nonexposed controls.However, the estimated potential exposure level for the heaviest exposedindividuals was less than 1% of radiation exposure from natural sources,making related cancers unlikely.

Other cancer-related factors not controlled included (1) migration inand out of the region, (2) the presence of other industries in the region,

(3) the personal habits of the decedents (patterns of smoking, diet, alcoholconsumption, etc.), (4) familial history of disease, (5) medical exposure todrugs and x rays, and (6) occupational chemical and radiation exposures.

Because occupational exposures at Pantex are higher than ambientexposures, we have initiated a study of the work force as a more sensitiveindicator of health effects due to the plant’s activities. Employee radiationand chemical exposure histories will be used to determine whether there is arelationship between occupational exposure and mortality. If excesses arediscovered, case-control studies that allow for careful consideration ofconfounders such as smoking history and occupational exposure to radiationand chemicals can be designed.

IX. CONCLUSIONS

This investigation did not find any evidence that Pantex Plantoperations have resulted in abnormally high cancer mortality rates in theregion. Cancer mortality rates for counties in this area were similar tothose for Texas.

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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

We would like to thank Richard J. Waxweiler, Michele Reyes, and membersof the Epidemiology Advisory Committee, especially Roy E. Shore and StrotherWalker for their valuable suggestions and advice. We would also like to thankB. Joan Essington and Laverne S. Martinez for their reliable statisticalabstraction of the state and county rates.

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Blot 1977: W. J. Blot, L. A. Brint.on,J. F. Fraumeni, Jr., and B. J. Stone,“Cancer Mortality in U.S. Counties with Petroleum Industries,” Science198, 51-53 (1977).

Bowen 1981: B. Bowen, “Pollutant Air Concentration Surrounding Pantex,” LosAlamos National Laboratory memorandum H8-81-549 to L. ldiggs (May 15,1981) .

Bowker 1972: A. H. Bowker and G. J. Lieberman, Engineering Statistics(Prentice Hall, Englewood Cliffs, NJ, 1972).

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APPENDIX

TABLES OF CANCER MORTALITY RATE RATIOS: SELECTED TEXAS COUNTIESCOMPARED WITH THE STATE OF TEXAS, 1950 TO 1978

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