[CPEO-MEF] FUSRAP website

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The following is a link to DOE's Office of Site Closure's "Considered
Sites
Database":

http://csd.apps.em.doe.gov/

The current vision for the presentation of information in the DOE
Considered Sites Database on Environmental Management's website includes
two
elements.

1. Formerly Utilized Sites Remedial Action Program (FUSRAP) considered
sites, will address over 600 sites identified in the 1995 list released
by
DOE in conjunction with this commitment.

2. "Other Sites Database" will address another group of sites introduced
in
the initial database framework that were not considered for inclusion in

FUSRAP.

FUSRAP is an environmental cleanup program established in March 1974 by
the
Atomic Energy Commission under authority of the Atomic Energy Act of
1954.
The program was created to identify, investigate and take appropriate
cleanup action at sites with radioactive contamination from the nation's

early atomic energy program. The EPA also has regulatory input on some
aspects of the FUSRAP program, it consults and advises on the
identification
and removal of the hazardous waste in the remedial action plans, and it
regulates waste both on and off site.

Research and development projects leading to the cleanup of several
FUSRAP
sites was directed (in the language of conference committee reports) by
the
1984 and 1986 Energy and Water Appropriations Acts. Transfer of FUSRAP
site
cleanup and management activities from the Department of Energy to the
USACOE was directed in the 1997 Energy and Water Appropriations Act.
Department of Energy support for FUSRAP continues under a Memorandum of
Agreement with the Corps.

FUSRAP sites differ from Formerly Utilized Defense Sites (FUDS) in that
DoD
is responsible for the cleanup of FUDS sites, the Army is the executive
agent, and the Army Corps of Engineers is the program's executing agent
and
manager. A FUDS sites is a piece of property that DoD formerly owned,
leased, possessed, or operated.

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