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Title: Final report of the decontamination and decommissioning of Building 39 at the Grand Junction Projects Office Facility

Technical Report ·
DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/419121· OSTI ID:419121

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Grand Junction Projects Office (GJPO) occupies a 61.7-acre facility along the Gunnison River near Grand Junction, Colorado. This site was contaminated with uranium ore and mill tailings during uranium refining activities of the Manhattan Engineer District and during pilot milling experiments conducted for the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission`s domestic uranium procurement program. The DOE Defense Decontamination and Decommissioning Program established the GJPO Remedial Action Project to clean up and restore the facility lands, improvements, and the underlying aquifer. The site contractor for the facility, Rust Geotech, is also the remedial action contractor. The soil beneath Building 39 was radiologically contaminated and the building was demolished in 1992. The soil area within the footprint of the building has been remediated in accordance with the identified standards and the area can be released for unlimited exposure and unrestricted use. This document was prepared in response to a DOE request for an individual final report for each contaminated GJPO building.

Research Organization:
Rust Geotech, Inc., Grand Junction, CO (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE Office of Environmental Restoration and Waste Management, Washington, DC (United States)
DOE Contract Number:
AC13-86ID12584
OSTI ID:
419121
Report Number(s):
DOE/ID/12584-258; GJPO-GJ-29; ON: DE97001811; TRN: 97:002301
Resource Relation:
Other Information: PBD: Jul 1996
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English