FUSRAP Planning For December SLDA RFP Release Date

The Army Corps of Engineers anticipates issuing the Request for Proposal for the cleanup of the Shallow Land Disposal Area (SLDA) site in Armstrong County, Pa. no later than December 3, 2015, according to a notice on FedBizOpps late last week. National FUSRAP Program Manager Nicki Fatherly had said last month at the RadWaste Summit that FUSRAP expected the RFP release in early 2016, but this pre-solicitation notice moves the release back to the Corps’ originally anticipated end-of-2015 date. Proposals would then be due by Jan. 19, 2016, according to the notice. The SLDA site is one of the larger projects in the Corp’s Formerly Utilized Sites Remedial Action Program (FUSRAP). According to a recently released proposed Record of Decision, the cost of the cleanup has jumped to $350 million under an increased 46 month timeline after the government halted the project in 2011.