Formerly Utilized Sites Remedial Action Program

The Formerly Utilized Sites Remedial Action Program (FUSRAP) is a United States Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) project to manage and cleanup environmental contamination that resulted from early United States Atomic Energy Commission activities. Cleanup activities were initially performed under the supervision of the United States Department of Energy (DOE), until 1997 when the United States Congress passed authority for cleanup activities to the USACE.

The primary source of contamination at the locations stems from the processing of uranium ores and the disposal of the byproducts. The major sources of site contamination are uranium, thorium, and radium. In addition to the radiological contaminants there are semi-volatile organic compounds, volatile organic compounds, and heavy metals comingled at the sites.

Table of FUSRAP Sites

Data from multiple sources[1] [2] [3]

Site Name City Vicinity Properties Waste Volume (m3) Army Corps of Engineer Division/District URL
Colonie Site Colonie, New York North Atlantic Division
New York
HTML link needed
Shpack Landfill Norton, MA Attleboro, MA North Atlantic Division
New England
http://www.nrc.gov/info-finder/decommissioning/complex/shpack-landfill.html

EPA summary page

Maywood Site Maywood, New Jersey 83 300,000 North Atlantic Division
New York
http://www.fusrapmaywood.com/projmain.html
Niagara Falls Storage Site Lewiston, New York 26 157,000 Great Lakes and Ohio River http://www.lrb.usace.army.mil/derpfuds/loow-nfss/index.htm
Guterl Specialty Steel site (former Simonds Saw and Steel) Lockport, New York - - Great Lakes and Ohio River http://www.lrb.usace.army.mil/fusrap/guterl/guterl-newsletter-2008-03.pdf
Shallow Land Disposal Area (BWX) Armstrong County, Pennsylvania - - Great Lakes and

Ohio River
Pittsburgh District

http://www.lrp.usace.army.mil/fusrap/slda.htm
Painesville Site Painesville, Ohio - 25,000 Great Lakes and

Ohio River Division

http://www.lrb.usace.army.mil/fusrap/paine/
Harshaw Chemical Site Cleveland, Ohio Great Lakes and

Ohio River Division

http://www.lrb.usace.army.mil/fusrap/harshaw/
Luckey Site (Brush Wellman Company) Cleveland, Ohio - - Great Lakes and

Ohio River

http://www.lrb.usace.army.mil/fusrap/luckey/
St. Louis Airport Site(SLAPS) St. Louis, Missouri 78 191,000 Mississippi Division
St. Louis District
http://www.mvs.usace.army.mil/eng-con/expertise/fusrap-slaps.html
St. Louis Downtown Site (Mallinckrodt) St. Louis, Missouri 6 188,000 Mississippi Division
St. Louis District
http://www.mvs.usace.army.mil/eng-con/expertise/fusrap-slds.html
Iowa Army Ammunition Plant Middletown, Iowa - - Mississippi Division
St. Louis District
http://www.mvs.usace.army.mil/eng-con/expertise/fusrap-IAAAP.html
Latty Avenue Properties Hazelwood, Missouri 6 161,000 Mississippi Division
St. Louis District
http://www.mvs.usace.army.mil/eng-con/expertise/fusrap-hiss.html
Madison Properties Madison, IL - - Mississippi Division
St. Louis District
http://www.mvs.usace.army.mil/eng-con/expertise/fusrap-madison.html
DuPont Chambers Works Deepwater, New Jersey - - Philadelphia District http://www.nap.usace.army.mil/Missions/FUSRAP/DuPontChambersWorks.aspx

References

  1. Eisenbud & Gesell (1997). Environmental Radioactivity From Natural, Industrial, and Military Sources. San Diego:Academic Press, 507. ISBN 0-12-235154-1
  2. http://www.mvs.usace.army.mil/eng-con/expertise/fusrap.html MVS site
  3. http://www.lrb.usace.army.mil/fusrap/ Buffalo district site

External links

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