[Federal Register Volume 61, Number 229 (Tuesday, November 26, 1996)]
[Notices]
[Pages 60097-60098]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 96-30140]
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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
Certification of the Radiological Condition of the Alba Craft
Site in Oxford, Ohio, 1995
AGENCY: Office of Environmental Management, Department of Energy.
ACTION: Notice of certification.
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SUMMARY: The Department of Energy (DOE) has completed remedial actions
to decontaminate properties in Oxford, Ohio. Formerly, the properties
were found to contain quantities of residual radioactive material
resulting from activities conducted by contractors for DOE or its
predecessors at the former Alba Craft Laboratory, Inc. Radiological
surveys show that the properties now meet applicable requirements for
use without radiological restrictions, and the docket related to
cleanup activities is now available.
ADDRESSES: The docket is available from:
Public Reading Room, Room 1E-190, Forrestal Building, U.S. Department
of Energy, 1000 Independence Avenue, S.W.,Washington, D.C. 20585.
Public Document Room, Oak Ridge Operations Office, U.S. Department of
Energy, 200 Administration Road, Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37831.
Lane Public Library, Oxford Branch, 15 S. College Avenue, Oxford, Ohio
45056.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: William E. Murphie, Acting Director,
Office of Eastern Area Programs, Office of Environmental Restoration
(EM-42), U.S. Department of Energy, Germantown, Maryland 20874. (301)
903-2328 Fax: (301) 903-2385.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: DOE, Office of Eastern Area Programs,
Formerly Utilized Sites Remedial Action Program (FUSRAP) Team, has
conducted remedial action at the Alba Craft site in Oxford, Ohio, as
part of FUSRAP. The objective of the program is to identify and
remediate or otherwise control sites where residual radioactive
contamination remains from activities carried out under contract with
the Department's statutory predecessors
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(e.g., the Manhattan Engineer District (MED) or the Atomic Energy
Commission (AEC)) during the early years of the nation's atomic energy
program or from commercial operations causing conditions that Congress
has authorized DOE to remedy. In 1992, the Alba Craft site was
designated for cleanup under FUSRAP.
Alba Craft Laboratory, Inc., under subcontract to National Lead of
Ohio (NLO), a primary contractor for AEC from October 1952 to February
1957, provided a variety of machine-shop services on natural uranium
metal (i.e., uranium metal that was neither enriched nor depleted but
contained the uranium isotopes in natural abundance). Operations at the
site consisted of hollow drilling and turning of uranium metal slugs.
Production was discontinued at the site in 1957, and Alba Craft
personnel decontaminated the building and equipment in accordance with
NLO Industrial Hygiene Department specifications.
In 1992, DOE's Oak Ridge National Laboratory performed a
radiological survey in and around the Alba Craft Laboratory building
and adjacent properties suspected to have become contaminated as a
result of activities conducted at the laboratory. The survey identified
radioactive contamination exceeding current DOE guidelines for release
of properties for use without radiological restrictions and four
properties including the Alba Craft Laboratory building, and three
radioactively contaminated ``vicinity properties'' were designated for
remedial action by FUSRAP.
In addition to the laboratory property, residual radioactive
contamination was found on exterior areas of vicinity properties at 525
South Main Street, 550 South Main Street, and West Rose Avenue near the
Alba Craft building. The property at 525 South Main Street, where the
former owner of the Alba Craft Laboratory lived, was the only vicinity
property at which interior contamination was found.
Remedial action was performed at the former Alba Craft Laboratory
and vicinity properties from August 1994 to January 1995. Post-remedial
action surveys have demonstrated, and DOE has certified, that the
subject properties are in compliance with DOE radiological
decontamination criteria and standards. The standards are established
to protect members of the general public and occupants of the
properties and to ensure that future use of the properties will result
in no radiological exposure above applicable health-based guidelines.
Accordingly, these properties are released from FUSRAP.
The certification docket will be available for review between 9:00
a.m. and 4:00 p.m., Monday through Friday (except Federal holidays) in
the DOE Public Reading Room located in Room 1E-190 of the Forrestal
Building, 1000 Independence Avenue, S.W., Washington, D.C. 20585.
Copies of the certification docket will also be available in the DOE
Public Document Room, U.S. Department of Energy, Oak Ridge Operations
Office, Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37831, and in the Lane Public Library,
Oxford Branch, 15 S. College Avenue, Oxford, Ohio 45056.
DOE, through the Oak Ridge Operations Office, Former Sites
Restoration Division, has issued the following statement:
Statement of Certification: Alba Craft Laboratory, Inc. and Vicinity
Properties Site in Oxford, Ohio
DOE, Oak Ridge Operations Office, Former Sites Restoration
Division, has reviewed and analyzed the radiological data obtained
following remedial action at the former Alba Craft Laboratory site and
vicinity properties in Oxford, Ohio. Based on analysis of all data
collected, including post-remedial action surveys, DOE certifies that
any residual contamination on the Laboratory site and vicinity
properties falls within current guidelines for use of land without
radiological restrictions. This certification of compliance provides
assurance that reasonably foreseeable future use of the properties will
result in no radiological exposure above current radiological
guidelines established to protect members of the general public, as
well as occupants of the site.
Property owned by Gilbert and Vicki Pacey, 10-14 West Rose Avenue,
Oxford, Ohio
Property owned by James H. and Darlene S. Burch, 550 South Main
Street, Oxford, Ohio
Property owned by Wayne and Marilyn Elzey, 525 South Main Street,
Oxford, Ohio
Municipal Property, West Rose Avenue, Oxford, Ohio.
Issued in Washington, D.C., on November 15, 1996.
James M. Owendoff,
Deputy Assistant Secretary for Environmental Restoration.
[FR Doc. 96-30140 Filed 11-25-96; 8:45 am]
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