[Federal Register Volume 61, Number 180 (Monday, September 16, 1996)]
[Notices]
[Pages 48667-48668]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 96-23626]


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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Certification of the Radiological Condition of the Associate 
Aircraft Site in Fairfield, OH

AGENCY: Department of Energy.

ACTION: Notice of certification.

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SUMMARY: The Department of Energy (DOE) has completed remedial actions 
to decontaminate a property in Fairfield, Ohio. Formerly, the property 
was found to contain quantities of residual radioactive material 
resulting from activities conducted by DOE's predecessors at the former 
Associate Aircraft Tool and Manufacturing Company. Radiological surveys 
show that the property now meets applicable requirements for 
radiologically unrestricted use.

ADDRESSES: The certification docket is available at the following 
locations:

Public Reading Room, Room 1E-190, Forrestal Building, U.S. Department 
of Energy, 1000 Independence Avenue, S.W., Washington, D.C. 20585.
 Public Document Room, Oak Ridge Operations Office, U.S. Department of 
Energy, 200 Administration Road, Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37831.
Lane Public Library, Fairfield Branch, 701 Wessel Drive, Fairfield, 
Ohio 45014.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: John C. Lehr, Acting Director, Office 
of Eastern Area Programs, Office of Environmental Management (EM-42), 
U.S. Department of Energy, Washington, D.C. 20585, (301) 903-2328 Fax: 
(301) 903-2385.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The Department of Energy, Office of 
Environmental Management, has conducted remedial action at the 
Associate Aircraft site in Fairfield, Ohio, under the Formerly Utilized 
Sites Remedial Action Program (FUSRAP). The objective of the program is 
to identify and remediate or otherwise control sites where residual 
radioactive contamination remains from activities carried out under 
contract to the Manhattan Engineer District/Atomic Energy Commission 
(MED/AEC) during the early years of the nation's atomic energy program. 
The Associate Aircraft site was designated for cleanup under FUSRAP in 
April 1993.
    From February to September 1956, the Associate Aircraft Tool and 
Manufacturing Company, under subcontract to National Lead of Ohio 
(NLO), a primary contractor for the AEC, provided a variety of machine 
shop services on natural uranium metal (i.e., uranium metal that was 
neither enriched nor depleted in the U-235 isotope but that contained 
U-235 in natural abundance). Operations at the site consisted of hollow 
drilling and turning of uranium metal slugs. After production was 
discontinued in September 1956, Associate Aircraft personnel 
decontaminated the building and equipment in accordance with the NLO 
Industrial Hygiene Department's specifications.
    In June and September 1992, Oak Ridge National Laboratory conducted 
radiological surveys in and around the former Associate Aircraft 
building. Radioactive contamination exceeding current DOE health-based 
guidelines for release of properties for radiologically unrestricted 
use was identified inside the building and in two small isolated areas 
outside. The property was included in FUSRAP in April 1993 and was 
remediated from December 1994 to June 1995.
    Post-remedial action surveys have demonstrated and DOE has 
certified that the subject property is in compliance with the 
Department's radiological decontamination criteria and standards. The 
standards are established to protect members of the general public and 
occupants of the properties and to ensure that future use of the 
properties will result in no radiological exposure above applicable 
health-based guidelines.
    These findings are supported by the Department's Certification 
Docket for the Remedial Action Performed at the Associate Aircraft Tool 
and Manufacturing Company Site in Fairfield, Ohio, December 1995. 
Accordingly, this property is released from FUSRAP.
    The certification docket will be available for review between 9:00 
a.m. and 4:00 p.m., Monday through Friday (except Federal holidays) in 
the Department's Public Reading Room, located in Room 1E-190 of the 
Forrestal Building, 1000 Independence Avenue, S.W., Washington, D.C. 
20585. Copies of the certification docket will also be available in the 
DOE Public Document

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Room, U.S. Department of Energy, Oak Ridge Operations Office, Oak 
Ridge, Tennessee 37831 and at the Lane Public Library, Fairfield 
Branch, 701 Wessel Drive, Fairfield, Ohio 45014.
    DOE, through the Oak Ridge Operations Office, Former Sites 
Restoration Division, has issued the following statement:

Statement of Certification: Associate Aircraft Tool and Manufacturing 
Company Site, Fairfield, Ohio

    DOE, Oak Ridge Operations Office, Former Sites Restoration 
Division, has reviewed and analyzed the radiological data obtained 
following remedial action at the Associate Aircraft site (3660 Dixie 
Highway, Fairfield, Ohio; Parcel No. 40 filed in Deed Book 1625, Page 
139 in the land records of Butler County, Ohio). Based on analysis of 
all data collected, including post-remedial action surveys, DOE 
certifies that any residual contamination which remains onsite falls 
within current guidelines for use without radiological restrictions. 
This certification of compliance provides assurance that reasonably 
foreseeable future use of the property will result in no radiological 
exposure above current radiological guidelines established to protect 
members of the general public as well as occupants of the site.
    Property owned by Lester J. Besl and James L. Besl Partnership: 
3660 Dixie Highway, Fairfield, Ohio 45014.

    Issued in Washington, D.C. on September 4, 1996.
James M. Owendoff,
Deputy Assistant Secretary for Environmental Restoration.
[FR Doc. 96-23626 Filed 9-13-96; 8:45 am]
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