[CPEO-MEF] FORMER SITES, RADIATION: Annual FUSRAP Report Available Online

[Lenny Siegel <LSiegel@cpeo.org>]

Annual FUSRAP Report Available Online
Formerly Utilized Sites Remedial Action Program Update - Fiscal Year 2021

U.S. Army Corps of Engineeers
February 24, 2022

The Formerly Utilized Sites Remedial Action Program Update for Fiscal Year 2021 is now available online. This annual report provides information about progress the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is making in cleaning up sites with contamination resulting from the nation’s early atomic energy program. (Cover photo: Deconstruction of the production building at the Luckey Site. Photo credit: USACE).
The Formerly Utilized Sites Remedial Action Program Update for Fiscal Year 2021 is now available online.

View the report here: https://usace.contentdm.oclc.org/utils/getfile/collection/p16021coll11/id/5487. 

This annual report provides information about progress the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) is making in cleaning up sites with contamination resulting from the nation’s early atomic energy program. The Formerly Utilized Sites Remedial Action Program (FUSRAP) was initiated in 1974 to identify, investigate and, if necessary, clean up or control sites throughout the United States contaminated as a result of Manhattan Engineer District (MED) or early Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) activities. Both the MED and the AEC were predecessors of the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE). Congress transferred administration and execution of FUSRAP cleanups from the DOE to USACE in October 1997. USACE continues to address sites the DOE began, sites that were referred to USACE by the DOE Office of Legacy Management under a USACE/DOE Memorandum of Understanding, and one site added to the program by statute.

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For the entire announcement, go to
https://www.usace.army.mil/DesktopModules/ArticleCS/Print.aspx?PortalId=2&ModuleId=111142&Article=2944527

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director
Center for Public Environmental Oversight
A project of the Pacific Studies Center
LSiegel@cpeo.org
P.O. Box 998, Mountain View, CA 94042
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http://www.cpeo.org
Author: DISTURBING THE WAR: The Inside Story of the Movement to Get Stanford University out of Southeast Asia - 1965–1975 (See http://a3mreunion.org)

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