[Federal Register Volume 60, Number 186 (Tuesday, September 26, 1995)]
[Notices]
[Pages 49590-49591]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 95-23833]
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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
Certification of the Radiological Condition of the Wayne Site
Vicinity Properties in Wayne, NJ, 1993
AGENCY: Department of Energy.
ACTION: Notice of Certification.
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SUMMARY: The Department of Energy (DOE) has completed remedial action
to decontaminate eight vicinity properties and portions of the Peck
Avenue right-of-way at the Wayne Site in Wayne, New Jersey. These
properties were found to contain quantities of radioactive material
from activities conducted at the former W. R. Grace and Company
facility in Wayne. Radiological surveys show that the properties now
meet applicable requirements for unrestricted use. The docket relating
to the remedial action is available for inspection and copying at the
following addresses.
ADDRESSES: Public Reading Room, Room 1E-190, Forrestal Building, U.S.
Department of Energy, 1000 Independence Avenue, SW., Washington, DC
20585
Public Document Room, Oak Ridge Operations Office, U.S. Department of
Energy, Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37831
DOE Wayne Information Center, 868 Black Oak Ridge Road, Wayne, New
Jersey 07470
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: James W. Wagoner II, Director, Off-
Site/Savannah River Program Division, Office of Eastern Area Programs,
Office of Environmental Restoration (EM-421),
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U.S. Department of Energy, Washington, D.C. 20585, (301) 903-2531 Fax:
(301) 903-2461.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The DOE, Office of Environmental Management,
has conducted remedial action at eight vicinity properties and portions
of the Peck Avenue right-of-way at the Wayne Site in Wayne, New Jersey,
as part of the Formerly Utilized Sites Remedial Action Program
(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 to the Manhattan
Engineer District/Atomic Energy Commission during the early years of
the nation's atomic energy program or from commercial operations.
Congress assigned responsibility for the Wayne site to DOE in 1984
under the Energy and Water Development Appropriations Act for 1984,
Public Law Number 98-50; the site was then assigned to FUSRAP.
From 1948 to 1971, the former W. R. Grace facility, located at 868
Black Oak Ridge Road, received and processed monazite sands, an ore
rich in radioactive material, from several sources throughout the
world. U.S. Department of Commerce records indicate that substantial
quantities of the sands were received and processed at the site.
The now-abandoned Pompton Plains railroad spur of the New York,
Susquehanna, and Western Railroad was used to convey the monazite sands
to the W. R. Grace facility. The railroad spur, located approximately 1
mile west of the facility, was the point where the source material
(i.e., the monazite sands) was transferred from rail cars to trucks for
delivery to the W. R. Grace processing plant. The bags of monazite sand
were placed on pallets on the trucks, which were then driven west down
Peck Avenue to the Pompton Turnpike, south to the Pompton Plains Cross
Road, and east to the W. R. Grace facility. The portion of the property
where Peck Avenue abuts the railroad spur became radioactively
contaminated by spills of unprocessed monazite sands that occurred
during transfer of the material from rail cars to trucks.
The radioactive contamination and associated metals contamination
were confined primarily to the area used for unloading monazite sands.
However, radiological surveys of nearby residential properties along
Peck Avenue indicate that some of this material either migrated
westward on Peck Avenue during floods or was physically relocated for
use as backfill or landscape material. Radiological surveys also
indicated that the residential property adjacent to the former W. R.
Grace facility contained radioactive contamination above cleanup
guidelines. This property is suspected to have become contaminated
either by surface water runoff during operations at the former
processing facility, or by physical relocation of the material from the
processing plant.
Post-remedial action surveys have demonstrated, and DOE has
certified, that the subject properties are in compliance with DOE
radiological decontamination criteria and standards established under
DOE Order 5400.5 to protect members of the general public and occupants
of the properties, and to ensure that future use by the general public
or site occupants of the properties will result in no radiological
exposure above applicable radiological guidelines.
These findings are supported by the DOE Certification Docket for
the Remedial Action Performed at the Wayne Site Vicinity Properties in
Wayne, New Jersey, 1993. 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 at the DOE Wayne Information
Center, 868 Black Oak Ridge Road, Wayne, New Jersey 07470.
DOE, through its Oak Ridge Operations Office, has issued the
following statement:
Statement of Certification: Wayne Site Vicinity Properties in
Wayne, New Jersey
DOE Oak Ridge Operations Office, Former Sites Restoration Division,
has reviewed and analyzed the radiological data obtained following
remedial action at the Wayne site vicinity properties. Based on
analysis of all data collected, DOE certifies that the following
properties are in compliance with DOE radiological decontamination
criteria and standards. This certification of compliance provides
assurance that future use of the properties will result in no
radiological exposure above applicable guidelines established to
protect members of the general public and occupants of the properties.
Property owned by Township of Pequannock, Peck Avenue Right of Way (no
deed reference), Passaic County, New Jersey
Property owned by Ms. Bertha Barrett, Parcel 238/23, Deed/Plat Book
3749, Page 313, Passaic County, New Jersey
Property owned by Mr. Frederick M. Vicine, Parcel 22-238, Deed/Plat
Book G67, Page 392, Passaic County, New Jersey
Property owned by Mr. Michael Galiano, Parcel 21/238, Deed/Plat Book
045, Page 447, Passaic County, New Jersey
Property owned by Ms. Linda S. Perry, Parcel 6-237, Deed/Plat Book
2915, Page 707, Passaic County, New Jersey
Property owned by Mr. Charles A. Lundy, Parcel 20-238, Deed/Plat Book
3441, Page 310, Passaic County, New Jersey
Property owned by Mr. John Rotchford, Parcel 19-238, Deed/Plat Book
3610, Page 055, Passaic County, New Jersey
Property owned by New York, Susquehanna, and Western Railway Corp.,
Parcel 200/4, Deed/Plat Book EB3493, Page 305, Passaic County, New
Jersey
Property owned by Mrs. Jean Konecny, 898 Black Oak Ridge Road, Wayne
(Morris County), New Jersey
Issued in Washington, D.C., on September 19, 1995.
James M. Owendoff,
Deputy Assistant Secretary for Environmental Restoration.
[FR Doc. 95-23833 Filed 9-25-95; 8:45 am]
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