[Federal Register Volume 61, Number 229 (Tuesday, November 26, 1996)]
[Notices]
[Pages 60097-60098]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 96-30140]


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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Certification of the Radiological Condition of the Alba Craft 
Site in Oxford, Ohio, 1995

AGENCY: Office of Environmental Management, Department of Energy.

ACTION: Notice of certification.

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SUMMARY: The Department of Energy (DOE) has completed remedial actions 
to decontaminate properties in Oxford, Ohio. Formerly, the properties 
were found to contain quantities of residual radioactive material 
resulting from activities conducted by contractors for DOE or its 
predecessors at the former Alba Craft Laboratory, Inc. Radiological 
surveys show that the properties now meet applicable requirements for 
use without radiological restrictions, and the docket related to 
cleanup activities is now available.

ADDRESSES: The docket is available from:

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, Oxford Branch, 15 S. College Avenue, Oxford, Ohio 
45056.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: William E. Murphie, Acting Director, 
Office of Eastern Area Programs, Office of Environmental Restoration 
(EM-42), U.S. Department of Energy, Germantown, Maryland 20874. (301) 
903-2328 Fax: (301) 903-2385.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: DOE, Office of Eastern Area Programs, 
Formerly Utilized Sites Remedial Action Program (FUSRAP) Team, has 
conducted remedial action at the Alba Craft site in Oxford, Ohio, as 
part of 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 with 
the Department's statutory predecessors

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(e.g., the Manhattan Engineer District (MED) or the Atomic Energy 
Commission (AEC)) during the early years of the nation's atomic energy 
program or from commercial operations causing conditions that Congress 
has authorized DOE to remedy. In 1992, the Alba Craft site was 
designated for cleanup under FUSRAP.
    Alba Craft Laboratory, Inc., under subcontract to National Lead of 
Ohio (NLO), a primary contractor for AEC from October 1952 to February 
1957, provided a variety of machine-shop services on natural uranium 
metal (i.e., uranium metal that was neither enriched nor depleted but 
contained the uranium isotopes in natural abundance). Operations at the 
site consisted of hollow drilling and turning of uranium metal slugs. 
Production was discontinued at the site in 1957, and Alba Craft 
personnel decontaminated the building and equipment in accordance with 
NLO Industrial Hygiene Department specifications.
    In 1992, DOE's Oak Ridge National Laboratory performed a 
radiological survey in and around the Alba Craft Laboratory building 
and adjacent properties suspected to have become contaminated as a 
result of activities conducted at the laboratory. The survey identified 
radioactive contamination exceeding current DOE guidelines for release 
of properties for use without radiological restrictions and four 
properties including the Alba Craft Laboratory building, and three 
radioactively contaminated ``vicinity properties'' were designated for 
remedial action by FUSRAP.
    In addition to the laboratory property, residual radioactive 
contamination was found on exterior areas of vicinity properties at 525 
South Main Street, 550 South Main Street, and West Rose Avenue near the 
Alba Craft building. The property at 525 South Main Street, where the 
former owner of the Alba Craft Laboratory lived, was the only vicinity 
property at which interior contamination was found.
    Remedial action was performed at the former Alba Craft Laboratory 
and vicinity properties from August 1994 to January 1995. Post-remedial 
action surveys have demonstrated, and DOE has certified, that the 
subject properties are in compliance with DOE 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. 
Accordingly, these properties are 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 DOE 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 Room, U.S. Department of Energy, Oak Ridge Operations 
Office, Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37831, and in the Lane Public Library, 
Oxford Branch, 15 S. College Avenue, Oxford, Ohio 45056.
    DOE, through the Oak Ridge Operations Office, Former Sites 
Restoration Division, has issued the following statement:

Statement of Certification: Alba Craft Laboratory, Inc. and Vicinity 
Properties Site in Oxford, Ohio

    DOE, Oak Ridge Operations Office, Former Sites Restoration 
Division, has reviewed and analyzed the radiological data obtained 
following remedial action at the former Alba Craft Laboratory site and 
vicinity properties in Oxford, Ohio. Based on analysis of all data 
collected, including post-remedial action surveys, DOE certifies that 
any residual contamination on the Laboratory site and vicinity 
properties falls within current guidelines for use of land without 
radiological restrictions. This certification of compliance provides 
assurance that reasonably foreseeable future use of the properties 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 Gilbert and Vicki Pacey, 10-14 West Rose Avenue, 
Oxford, Ohio
Property owned by James H. and Darlene S. Burch, 550 South Main 
Street, Oxford, Ohio
Property owned by Wayne and Marilyn Elzey, 525 South Main Street, 
Oxford, Ohio
Municipal Property, West Rose Avenue, Oxford, Ohio.

    Issued in Washington, D.C., on November 15, 1996.
James M. Owendoff,
Deputy Assistant Secretary for Environmental Restoration.
[FR Doc. 96-30140 Filed 11-25-96; 8:45 am]
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