ground water flow. The State of New Jersey has been requested to

nominate candidate locations in the State for DOE to establish a site for disposal of the estimated 50,000 cubic yards of waste at Wayne, as well as the other estimated 360,000 cubic yards of FUSRAP waste at Middlesex and Maywood.

At Colonie, New York, DOE acquired the NL Industries site as a donation in February 1984, along with two adjacent parcels owned by the Niagara Mohawk Power Company that have waste buried on them. Radiological surveys of a total of 130 vicinity properties have been completed through FY 1985; and of these, 54 properties need remedial action. About 90 to 100 additional properties remain to be surveyed.

Cleanup of 35 properties was completed by October 1985 (11 in FY 1984 and 24 in FY 1985) and all remaining properties will be completed by October 1987. The contaminated soil is being temporarily stored inside the plant. Later this month we expect to complete a study of options for the permanent disposition of the more than 30,000 cubic yards of waste. The

State has been requested to nominate candidate locations for a DOE disposal site in New York. In FY 1986, DOE will remove the radioisotope sources from the plant previously used for inspection work as well as hazardous chemicals in the plant.

At Hazelwood, Missouri, DOE has arranged with the site owner, Futura Chemicals Company, to use a part of the site for storage of contaminated soil. Cleanup of a portion of Latty Avenue, adjacent to the Hazelwood site, was initiated in FY 1984 and was completed in FY 1985. Border areas on the site were cleaned up to prevent recontamination of Latty Avenue, and fencing was installed around the site. Radiological surveys of the vicinity properties were performed in FY 1985, and a survey of the developed part of the Latty Avenue site will be started in FY 1986.

Cleanup activities on the remaining vicinity properties will not be started until the waste can be moved to the St. Louis

Airport Disposal site. The City of St. Louis, Missouri, is considering the terms of transfer of the former St. Louis Airport Storage site to the Department for use in disposing of the estimated 60,000 cubic yards of waste from the Hazelwood site and vicinity properties, as required by language contained in the report that accompanied the FY 1985 Energy and Water Development Appropriations Act (Public Law 99-360). In FY 1985, DOE installed a 300-foot rock wall (gabion) at the Coldwater Creek bank of the Airport site to prevent erosion from spreading contamination into Coldwater Creek. In FY 1986, further site characterization (radiologic and geologic) work will be started and this work will be completed in FY 1987. Preliminary design

work, initiated in FY 1986, will be completed in FY 1987.

A revision to the FUSRAP Project Plan was completed in FY 1985. A preliminary total cost estimate of $675 million has been made for the FUSRAP scope, consisting of 25 sites, based on completion of all the work by the year 2001. The Plan will be updated in FY 1986 to include the four additional sites added by the Department in FY 1985.

GRAND JUNCTION REMEDIAL ACTION PROJECT

Under Title II of Public Law 92-314, Congress authorized financial assistance to the State of Colorado to limit radiation exposure resulting from the use of uranium mill tailings for construction purposes in Grand Junction, Colorado. This State and Federal cooperative effort is administered by the Colorado Department of Health through DOE's Grand Junction Area Office. The remedial action provides for removal of uranium mill tailings from the premises of an estimated 583 structures where concentrations of radioactive radon and its decay products exceed guidelines established by the Surgeon General. Public Law 95-236

extended the time, which has now expired, for property owners to apply for inclusion and also increased the authorized funding for Federal funds cover 75 percent of the program

the program.

costs, with the State providing the balance.

Contingent upon the

availability of adequate funding from the State of Colorado, the remedial action is expected to be completed in FY 1987, with final radiological verification to be completed in FY 1988.

At the end of FY 1985, work had been undertaken on

546 structures. In FY 1986, radiological assessments will be continued, engineering on all properties will be completed, and remedial actions will be initiated at 20 additional structures, including 17 residences, 2 commercial establishments, and

1 church. In FY 1987, work is scheduled to be undertaken on 15 properties, including 6 commercial structures, bringing the total number of properties completed to 581 out of the estimated total of 583.

URANIUM MILL TAILINGS REMEDIAL ACTION PROJECT (UMTRAP)

UMTRAP is responsible for conducting remedial action at 24 former uranium ore processing sites and several thousand contaminated vicinity properties, as mandated by Public Law 95-604, the Uranium Mill Tailings Radiation Control Act of 1978. Nine of the sites are designated as high priority, six as medium priority, and nine as low priority. The Act provides authority for remedial action by the Department for a period of 7 years following promulgation of standards by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), which occurred in March 1983.

The Department is proposing to extend the 7-year authorization period until the end of FY 1993, consistent with the

recommendation to extend the duration of the project made by the

House Appropriation Committee in House Report No. 99-195

accompanying the FY 1986 Energy and Water Development

Appropriations Act (Public Law 99-141). The FY 1987 budget request identifies resource requirements to meet this extended schedule.

The proposed extension takes into consideration the actual project experience gained in performing remedial action at several processing sites and many vicinity properties.

Project

plans have been revised to reflect this experience, and are based on the following key assumptions: (1) 4,535 of the

8,156 designated vicinity properties will actually require clean up in accordance with EPA standards; and (2) seven of the tailings piles (i.e., Durango, Colorado; Grand Junction, Colorado; Gunnison, Colorado; Rifle, Colorado; Bowman, North Dakota; Lakeview, Oregon; and Salt Lake City, Utah) will be relocated.

The program strategy is to focus near-term program activities on the higher priority sites and on vicinity properties. Remedial actions are being conducted in accordance with cooperative agreements negotiated with the affected States and Indian tribes. Federal funds cover 90 percent of the remedial action costs (100 percent for the sites on Indian lands), and the States provide funding for the remaining 10 percent. The type of remedial action for the processing sites will be to stabilize the mill tailings in place, where possible, or to remove them to a new disposal site. In either case, the final disposal sites will be Federally owned and maintained under NRC licenses.

Engineering plans and environmental documents are prepared for each site cleanup and disposal operation.

Concurrence by the NRC

and the affected State or Indian tribe are required for the remedial action plan at each site. The project also involves the cleanup of an estimated 4,535 contaminated vicinity properties mainly in the Grand Junction area but not covered by the Grand Junction Remedial Action Project. The Department's Albuquerque (New Mexico) Operations Office has the field management

responsibility for implementing UMTRAP.

Specific accomplishments in FY 1985 included the completion of 90 percent of the remedial action at Canonsburg, Pennsylvania, and initiation of remedial action at Salt Lake City, Utah; and Shiprock, New Mexico. The implementation of the remedial action at the Salt Lake City processing site has been assigned to the State of Utah. The approach at this site is to relocate the tailings to a site near Clive, Utah. Cleanup continued at highpriority vicinity properties near the sites at Canonsburg, Pennsylvania; Salt Lake City, Utah; Grand Junction, Colorado; and Edgemont, South Dakota; and started at Shiprock, New Mexico; Riverton, Wyoming; and Durango, Colorado.

During FY 1986, work is underway or planned at five processing sites. The Canonsburg project will be completed early in the fiscal year. The work at Salt Lake City will be brought to an estimated 70 percent of completion, and the work at Shiprock will be 90 percent completed. Onsite work will be started at the processing sites at Tuba City, Arizona, and Lakeview, Oregon. Over 400 vicinity properties located at several high-priority sites will also be decontaminated.

During FY 1987, remedial action will be underway at 9 processing sites and 900 vicinity properties. The work at Shiprock, New Mexico, and Salt Lake City, Utah, will be completed. Work will continue at Tuba City, Arizona, and Lakeview, Oregon. Processing

site remedial action will be started at Durango, Gunnison and Grand Junction, Colorado; Riverton, Wyoming; Ambrosia Lake, New Mexico; and Mexican Hat, Utah.

SURPLUS FACILITIES MANAGEMENT PROGRAM

This program provides for the safe management and disposition of certain surplus radioactively contaminated DOE-owned facilities from nuclear energy development activities. The decontaminated facilities and sites are to be returned to other productive use, where appropriate. (Similar actions at defense-related