The Army Corps of Engineers’ is requesting $103 million for its Formerly Utilized Sites Remedial Action Program (FUSRAP) in fiscal 2017.
FUSRAP was initiated in 1974 to identify, investigate, and clean up or control sites contaminated from the nation’s early atomic weapons and energy programs during the 1940s, 1950s, and 1960s. The program includes 20 sites. The total funding level would be $9 million less than appropriated for the current budget year, which ends on Sept. 30.
For its St. Louis Airport Site and vicinity properties remediation effort, which includes numerous sites in Hazelwood and Berkeley, Mo., the Corps is requesting $6 million; current funding is about $7 million. At its DuPont Chambers Works & Co. in New Jersey, a site containing contaminated material from World War II-era uranium activity, the Corps is requesting $13 million; current funding is $8.95 million.
The Corps is requesting the largest amount, $34 million, for cleanup of Maywood, a New Jersey site containing material from operations at the former Maywood Chemical Works from 1916 to 1959. That request represents a $1.6 million decrease from current funding levels.
The second-largest request is $18 million for the Shallow Land Disposal Area, a Parks Township, Pa., site containing waste from the defunct Nuclear Materials and Equipment Corp. (NUMEC), which owned and operated the Apollo Nuclear Fabrication Facility and buried waste at the SLDA in the 1960s.
