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recommendation to extend the duration of the project made by the House Committee on Appropriations in House Report No. 99-195. The FY 1988 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) 4,800 of the 8,156 designated vicinity properties will actually require cleanup in accordance with EPA standards; and (2) eight of the tailings piles (located in or near Durango, Grand Junction, Gunnison, Rifle, and Naturita, Colorado; Belfield, 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 license.

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plans and environmental documents are prepared for each site cleanup and disposal operation. Concurrence by the NRC and the

affected State or Indian tribe is required for the remedial action plan at each site. The project also involves the cleanup of an estimated 4,800 contaminated vicinity properties mainly in the Grand Junction, Colorado, 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 1986 included the completion of 100 percent of the remedial action at Canonsburg, Pennsylvania; completion of 85 percent of remedial action at Salt Lake City, Utah; and 95 percent completion at Shiprock, New Mexico. Construction management of the remedial action at the Salt Lake City processing site is being carried out by the State of Utah. The approach at this site is to relocate the tailings to a site near Clive, Utah. Remedial action was initiated in FY 1986 at the Lakeview, Oregon, site. Cleanup continued at high-priority vicinity properties near the sites at Canonsburg, Pennsylvania; Durango, Colorado; Salt Lake City, Utah; Grand Junction, Colorado; Edgemont, South Dakota; and Shiprock, New Mexico. Remedial action was completed on nearly 400 vicinity properties during FY 1986.

During FY 1987, work is underway or planned at eight processing sites. The work at Salt Lake City, Utah, and Shiprock, New Mexico, will be completed. Onsite work will continue at Tuba

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City, Arizona, and Lakeview, Oregon.

Processing site remedial

action will begin at Ambrosia Lake, New Mexico; Durango and Grand Junction, Colorado; and Riverton, Wyoming. Remedial action on over 800 vicinity properties will also be completed.

During FY 1988, remedial action will be underway at 7 processing sites and 1,000 vicinity properties. Remedial action will be completed at the Lakeview, Oregon, site. Site remedial action will be continuing at Durango, and Grand Junction, Colorado; Riverton, Wyoming; and Tuba City, Arizona. Remedial action will be initiated at the Gunnison, Colorado, and Green River, Utah, sites. Surveillance and maintenance activities will be conducted at completed sites (Canonsburg, Pennsylvania; Lakeview, Oregon; Salt Lake City, Utah; and Shiprock, New Mexico).

SURPLUS FACILITIES MANAGEMENT PROGRAM

This program provides for the safe management and disposition of certain surplus radioactively contaminated DOE facilities from civilian nuclear energy development activities. The decontaminated facilities and sites are to be returned to other productive use, where appropriate.

The facilities are grouped

into 32 projects under this activity. This number increased by one in FY 1987 because the Department assumed responsibility for decommissioning the Power Burst Facility (PBF) in Idaho, formerly supported by the NRC. A long-range plan was completed in

April 1985 to establish the overall schedule and priorities for

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sites currently in the surplus inventory.

Revisions to this plan

are made as necessary resulting from revised program budget guidance. Priorities are established and work schedules are developed within available funding through analysis of public health and safety, legal, economic, and work continuity factors for each site. Although program management of the SFMP was transferred from the Department's Richland (Washington) Operations Office to DOE Headquarters during FY 1987, work on individual projects is carried out by various DOE field offices as assigned.

In FY 1986, the interim storage cell was completed at the NFSS. A thick clay cap with a design life of greater than 25 years was placed over the wastes to minimize water infiltration and radon emission. A Final Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) and Record of Decision on the long-term management for the site were issued in FY 1986. DOE is completing water treatment and contractor demobilization in FY 1987. In FY 1988, only surveillance and maintenance of the NFSS is planned.

Work on the decontamination of plutonium-contaminated facilities at Mound Laboratories in Miamisburg, Ohio, is behind schedule due to identification of additional quantities of contamination and will be continued in FY 1987 and FY 1988. This project was begun in 1978 and will now be completed in FY 1990.

Decommissioning of the Shippingport Atomic Power Station is designated a major DOE project. Following defueling of the

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reactor at the end of FY 1984, physical dismantling of the plant began in September 1985. Dismantling of portions of the plant continued in 1986 and will continue in 1987. The project is

scheduled to be completed in early FY 1990.

Preparation for the

removal of the reactor pressure vessel will begin in FY 1987; the vessel is scheduled to be barged to the Department's Hanford Reservation near Richland, Washington, for disposal as low-level waste in FY 1989. The Department is cooperating with the NRC and EPRI in obtaining samples of the pressure vessel for aging studies. Other components will also be examined for this purpose. The Department is also participating in an international exchange of decommissioning technology sponsored by the NEA. The NEA program includes the Shippingport decommissioning and West Valley demonstration projects in the United States, as well as eight significant decommissioning projects in other NEA-member countries.

In FY 1986, the Department awarded the project management contract for the Weldon Spring Site Remedial Action Project in Missouri, another major DOE project, and established an onsite project office. In FY 1986, field work for characterization (radiological, chemical, and geological) of the Chemical Plant area was initiated and is continuing into FY 1987. A draft EIS will be issued in 1987. This is later than originally planned to

allow time to incorporate additional characterization and modify work, as well as, comments from EPA on the preliminary draft. In

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