Fox News Digital got an exclusive look inside the former limestone mine in Boyers, Pennsylvania, that houses the U.S. Office of Personnel Management’s retirement processing center on what OPM called its "last day of paperwork."
BOYERS, Pa. — Deep inside a limestone mine more than 230 feet underground, the Trump administration marked what it called the "Last Day of Paper" for federal retirements Tuesday, giving Fox News Digital rare access to the long-secretive Pennsylvania facility where millions of government records helped keep the retirement process trapped in an analog system for decades.
"It was unlike anything I'd ever seen before, which I think is the reaction that I generally hear from lots of people… I believe that many [government employees] have just been constrained by a system that does not allow innovation and does not allow some element of risk-taking," U.S. Office of Personnel Management Director Scott Kupor told Fox News Digital in a sit-down interview.
"The only thing I did that was different than any other predecessor was we gave people permission to actually solve the problems that I knew needed to be solved," he continued.
FEDERAL HR OFFICE PULLS BACK CURTAIN ON SWEEPING NDA PLAN AIMED AT CURBING GOVERNMENT LEAKS
Piles of paperwork at Iron Mountain in Boyers, PA. (Ashley J. DiMella / Fox News Digital)
Piles of paperwork at Iron Mountain in Boyers, PA. (Ashley J. DiMella / Fox News Digital)
Piles of paperwork at Iron Mountain in Boyers, PA. (Ashley J. DiMella / Fox News Digital)
Piles of paperwork at Iron Mountain in Boyers, PA. (Ashley J. DiMella / Fox News Digital)
For decades, retirement applications were physically mailed between federal agencies before arriving at OPM's Retirement Operations Center in Boyers, where workers manually processed roughly 10,000 retirements each month and houses over 400 million paper records. OPM celebrated
