Lawrence ? U.S. soldiers found American documents — including specifications for the Kansas State Defense Building — as they cleared rooms Wednesday at the Iraqi Ministry of Housing and Construction in Baghdad, state officials confirmed Wednesday.

Besides the building plans, soldiers found Federal Emergency Management Agency documents on the effects of a nuclear blast. The findings were first reported by an Atlanta Journal-Constitution reporter traveling with Charlie Company of the Army’s Task Force 1-64.

Maj. Gen. Greg Gardner, state adjutant general and Kansas director of homeland security, said he believed what was found was a brochure distributed to the public in April 1978, when the building was opened.

The documents were discovered as coalition forces moved through downtown Baghdad and took control of significant portions of the city.

Gardner said based on where the documents were discovered, Iraqi engineers and architects appeared interested in construction and how to design buildings to withstand conventional terrorist attacks.

“I don’t consider it targeting data,” Gardner said.

In Topeka, Gov. Kathleen Sebelius said homeland security officials didn’t appear to see the possession of the Kansas documents in Iraq as a threat. She added federal officials had made a point of notifying governors about threats specific to their states.

If the state defense building was targeted, she said, “I’m sure we would have been notified.”

Designs for the state defense building are not made available to the public in printed or electronic form. Gardner said he has no idea how the materials wound up in Iraq.

The brochure shows blueprints for constructing walls, electrical and other elements of the building, which is located in Topeka, south of the Statehouse. A copy obtained by The AP shows locations of key offices and security features.

The building serves as the headquarters of the Kansas National Guard and the state emergency management and homeland defense offices.