diff --git a/api/globals.py b/api/globals.py
index fc4c16d..d869348 100644
--- a/api/globals.py
+++ b/api/globals.py
@@ -1,2 +1,7 @@
 
 env = {}
+    """This Dict is set by internal.check_env_vars and contains a subset of the environment relevant to this
+    application.  If a value isn't provided in the environment, check_env_vars will populate a reasonable
+    default.  In turn, components of this application can refer to env[] to retrieve global settings to
+    bootstrap. 
+    """
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