The Department of Energy is accepting claims through Sept. 13 for reimbursement of expenses for cleanup of certain uranium and thorium processing sites in the current 2019 federal fiscal year.
The agency said in a Federal Register notice Tuesday that its Office of Environmental Management requested just over $20 million in fiscal 2020 for the program under Title X of the 1992 Energy Policy Act.
Under the law, the Energy Department is directed to reimburse spending on decontamination, decommissioning, reclamation, and other cleanup activities by uranium and thorium processing site licensees. “The eligible licensees incurred these costs to remediate byproduct material, generated as an incident of sales to the United States Government of uranium or thorium that was extracted or concentrated from ores processed primarily for their source material contents,” the Federal Register notice says.
Costs must comply with U.S. law under the 1978 Uranium Mill Tailings Radiation Control Act and will be paid from the federal Uranium Enrichment Decontamination and Decommissioning Fund.
Claims should be submitted to DOE’s Office of Legacy Management, Attn.: Jalena Dayvault, Lead for Review of Title X Reimbursement of Claims, 2597 Legacy Way, Grand Junction, CO 81503. Each filing should include two copies of the claim.
