Open AccessFiscal year 1996 annual report to stakeholders, Uranium Mill Tailings Remedial Action Project
Publication year - 1996
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Reports
DOI - 10.2172/537312
Subject(s) - remedial action , tailings , fiscal year , mill , uranium , groundwater , action (physics) , environmental science , mining engineering , engineering , business , geotechnical engineering , environmental remediation , chemistry , finance , metallurgy , biology , mechanical engineering , ecology , materials science , physics , quantum mechanics , contamination
This is the Fiscal Year (FY) 1996 annual report on the status of the US Department of Energy`s (DOE) Uranium Mill Tailings Remedial Action (UMTRA) Project. In 1978, Congress directed the DOE to assess and clean up contamination at 24 designated former uranium processing sites. The DOE is also responsible for cleaning up properties in the vicinity of the sites where wind and water erosion deposited tailings or people removed them from the site for use in construction of landscaping. Cleanup is being undertaken in cooperation with state governments and Indian tribes within whose boundaries the sites are located. It is being conducted in two phases: the surface project and the ground water project. This report addresses specifics about the surface phase of the UMTRA Project