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. @ | ‘ FD-302a (Rev. 10-6-95) * % 279A-NY-222936~302 Continttion of 0.302 of BRUCE EDWARDS IVINS on 04/24-25/2002, age were to fall in a dusty area, which had not subsequently been cleaned, it could still be there. Based on the above, in approximately December 2001, IVINS took the independent initiative to swab the office[ IVINS swabbed approximately twenty areas, to include desk, telephone, and computer in an effort to determine the presence of B.A. Analysis of the samples the next day indicated that approximately half the samples yielded what appeared to have one or two colonies of B.A. This was considered a "presumptive positive" and IVINS conducted no further tests to confirm the presence of B.A. IVINS autoclaved and disposed of all the samples. IVINS told of his findings, but was unsure if he actuall thoroughly cleaned At that time IVINS told nobody of his swabbing efforts and a He felt he had effectively taken care of the issue On or about 04/11/02 or 04/12/02, IVINS became aware that there was a possible contamination incident in. lab B3, and that had conducted sampl in the suite and found several areas with "presumptive positives" \for the presence of\B.A. The contamination incident consisted of a possible spill during an experiment conducted b On the following Monday, 04/15/02, after thinking about it over the weekend and becoming increasingly more concerned about possible contamination immediately Sgtside the B3 lab, \IVINS decided to independently conduct swabbing surveys in aréas likely, in his mind, to have been contaminated. IVINS conducted‘ the swabbing effort on either 04/15/02 and 04/16/02, or 04/16/02 and 04/17/02. He realizes he should have requested authority from his superiors to conduct the surveys, but he was afraid it would be weeks before permission was granted due to "red-tape." On 04/16/02, IVINS decided to swab the "cold-side" of the pass-thru box of B3, the cold-side men's changing room (because he could not get into the women's change room), ("Cold-side" refers to areas outside the IVINS sampled the cold-side of the pass-thru box because survey had found the presence of what appeared to be B.A. on the handle of the hot-side of the pass-thru box inside the B3 lab.