diff --git a/java/src/org/broadinstitute/sting/gatk/datasources/providers/ManagingReferenceOrderedView.java b/java/src/org/broadinstitute/sting/gatk/datasources/providers/ManagingReferenceOrderedView.java
index 654f0999f..1d9371315 100755
--- a/java/src/org/broadinstitute/sting/gatk/datasources/providers/ManagingReferenceOrderedView.java
+++ b/java/src/org/broadinstitute/sting/gatk/datasources/providers/ManagingReferenceOrderedView.java
@@ -62,6 +62,7 @@ public class ManagingReferenceOrderedView implements ReferenceOrderedView {
     public void close() {
         for( ReferenceOrderedDataState state: states )
             state.dataSource.close( state.iterator );
+        states.clear();
 
         // Clear out the existing data so that post-close() accesses to this data will fail-fast.
         states = null;
diff --git a/java/src/org/broadinstitute/sting/gatk/datasources/providers/RodLocusView.java b/java/src/org/broadinstitute/sting/gatk/datasources/providers/RodLocusView.java
index 186a7d335..775b36561 100644
--- a/java/src/org/broadinstitute/sting/gatk/datasources/providers/RodLocusView.java
+++ b/java/src/org/broadinstitute/sting/gatk/datasources/providers/RodLocusView.java
@@ -208,6 +208,7 @@ public class RodLocusView extends LocusView implements ReferenceOrderedView {
     public void close() {
         for( ReferenceOrderedDataState state: states )
             state.dataSource.close( state.iterator );
+        states.clear();
 
         rodQueue = null;
         tracker = null;