[CPEO-MEF] FORMER SITES, RADIATION: Guterl Steel uranium site, Lockport, NY

[Lenny Siegel <LSiegel@cpeo.org>]

Comment period open on uranium cleanup plan

By Benjamin Joe
Niagara Gazette (NY)
August 2, 2021, 

A virtual public input session last week on the Guterl Steel Site in Lockport, organized by the Formerly Utilized Sites Remedial Action Program (FUSRAP), drew some questions about the cleanup that's proposed for an old job site of the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission.

More than 25 million pounds of uranium steel billets were rolled into rods between 1948 and 1952, in nine buildings occupied by the Simonds Saw and Steel Company along Ohio Street, according to the Army Corps of Engineers.

"The uranium metal billets were received on the site by rail car, were rolled to contract specifications, and then were transported back off-site by rail car," FUSRAP representative Natalia Watson said. "In 1984, Allegheny Ludlum Corporation, now ATI Specialty Materials, purchased Guterl Specialty Steel Corporation's assets. An approximate nine-acre portion of property, which is now known as the excised area, was removed from the sale. Equipment used during the time Simonds conducted work for the Atomic Energy Commission was also excluded from the sale."

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For the entire article, see
https://news.yahoo.com/period-open-uranium-cleanup-plan-111800393.html

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director
Center for Public Environmental Oversight
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LSiegel@cpeo.org
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