As of December, roughly 70% or 11.2 million of the 16 million tons of contaminated debris and soil had been hauled away from an old uranium mill outside Moab, Utah, according to data released by the Department of Energy last week in for a new contract for the project.
The DOE in February released its request for proposals for the $614-million small business set-aside for the Moab Remedial Action Contract. A five-year contract valued at $187 million is held by North Wind Portage.
North Wind is currently shipping up to 152 containers per train, four trains per week as it moves tailings from the old Atlas Moab site in Grand County to the engineered Crescent Junction waste disposal facility 30 miles away.
Idaho-based North Wind says on its website that it is excavating and reducing the size of debris buried in the Moab pile from old mill buildings and structures. The material is loaded into intermodal containers and shipped by rail to Crescent Junction. North Wind has also built the disposal cell expansions at the Nuclear Regulatory Commission disposal cells at the Crescent Junction landfill where the material is disposed of.
The Atlas Moab site entrance is about 1 mile south of the main entrance to Arches National Park. The groundwater at the Moab site must also be remediated.
Questions on the solicitation were due Friday. Bids on the project are due March 29.
