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279A-WF-222936-USAMRIID tinuation of FD-302 of Bruce Edwards Ivins On 03/31/2005 __, Page os ne to assist[ with the increased workload in that division occasioned by the fall 2001 anthrax attacks. By way of background, Ivins related that_in_ October 2001, the Daschle letter was initially weighed in Room and then processed and photographed in Rooms These rooms are part of the Special Pathogens Branch of DSD and are biosafety level two (BSL-2) facilities. All three rooms are located in Building 1425. Following the_initial processing of the Daschle letter, IVINS was tasked blo to assess the concentration of the anthrax powder in the Daschle envelope. To perform a colony count, IVINS took the Daschle letter to Room[ | in Suite B3. IVINS identified two reasons for his decision to swab his office space in December 2001. First, IVINS did not beli that schle letter should have been processed in Rooml Jana an ee the biosafety level category (i.e., BSL-2) was not adequate to contain aerosolizable anthrax powder. Consequently, he was concerned that some anthrax may have esc. i of these two rooms. Second, IVINS commented "daily" to him during thai lemployee lab practices were unsafe. aboul is "many times," he said. Based on] complained claims, ‘IVINS ted the office ingly, IVINS samples from desk, chair, telephone and computer. IVINS did not area (i.e., desk, chair, computer) or that of even though they all shared the same r collected approximately 20 individual swabs from ork area. When queried as to why he swabbed cniy[ __] workspace, IVINS sai i ision was predicated on_the layer of dust he observed on desk and the fact that only one who had been workin where lab safety procedures were believed to be substandard. IVINS also offered that the air flow of the heating/ventilating/air conditioning ee susie in the room placed his desk andl desk "upwind" from desk so that he di t any errant anthrax spores to have settled on his o: desk. Iv. i t his culturing of the environmental samples from produced "a few presumptives" - i.e., colonies that visually appeared to be Bacillus anthracis.