This report provides information on milk distribution and dairy cattle feeding practices in Nevada, Utah and portions of seven other adjacent states during the 1950s. The information was gathered to support the US Department of Energy's ''Offsite Radiation Exposure Review Project (ORERP).'' This project is charged with providing radiation dose estimates for residents of Nevada, Utah, and surrounding states from nuclear weapons testing conducted at the Nevada Test Site from 1951 through 1962. The information on milk production and distribution is essential for assessment of the internal organ doses received by people as a result of ingesting radioactive fallout-contaminated foods. The information is used as input data for Colorado State University's PATHWAY computer code which estimates the ingestion of twenty radionuclides by people relative to a given level of fallout deposition.

Tables providing data related to rock and water samples collected for the study analyzed for uranium favorability, including sample number, quadrangle name, county, coordinates, geologic code, and elemental analyses. During field work, lithologic and structural features were noted, and samples were collected for gamma-ray spectroscopic, geochemical, and petrologic analyses performed at Grand Junction. The gamma-ray spectroscopic and geochemical analytical results are reported in this dataset.