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Wayne Site
Wayne and Pequannock Townships, New Jersey
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| Office: Oak Ridge Operations Office
Size:
7 acres (0.01 square mile)
NPL Status:
Placed on the NPL on September 21, 1984.
Mission:
The Wayne Site, a privately owned site previously used for thorium extraction,
was acquired by DOE in 1984 under a Congressional mandate and is managed by DOE
under its FUSRAP. The Wayne Site is used specifically as an interim storage
site for contaminated material removed during cleanup of the site and several
vicinity properties.
Overview of Environmental Conditions:
Onsite soil contaminated by radiological and possible chemical constituents.
CERCLA/RCRA Remediation Funding in FY 95: $4,319,000
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Progress in Reaching Interagency Agreement
An FFA for the Wayne Site, signed by EPA on July 17, 1990 and by DOE on July
23, 1990, became effective in April 1991. Schedules were subsequently
negotiated for the submittal of the RI, the baseline risk assessment, and the
FS reports. EPA Region II reviewed and approved the package on November 25,
1991.
Specific Cost Estimates and Budgetary Proposals Involved in Each Interagency
Agreement
Funds budgeted for environmental restoration under the FFA total $6.1 million
of appropriated funding for FY 96 and $6.1 million for FY 97 according to the
request in the President's Budget.
Public Comments Regarding Proposed Interagency Agreements
No new public comments regarding the FFA were received in FY 95.
Progress in Conducting Remedial Investigations/Feasibility Studies
Significant progress was made during FY 95 on the completion of RI/FS
activities at the site. To date, DOE has met all RI/FS milestones specified in
the FFA. DOE continues to operate a public information center at the site to
provide information on RI/FS progress.
The RI report for the Wayne Site was issued in October 1993. The Baseline Risk
Assessment Report was finalized in January 1994. The EPA Final Draft FS Report
was issued in March 1994. A PP was developed, comments were received from EPA
Region II in September 1995, and the PP will be released for public comment in
FY 96.
Progress in Conducting Remedial Actions
Earlier removal actions at the site entailed removing waste from the vicinity
properties and storing it in an engineered waste storage pile at the Wayne
Interim Storage Site. In FY 94, all remaining vicinity properties at the Wayne
Site were remediated. A non-time-critical removal action was initiated in FY 95
to ship contaminated material from the interim storage pile to a commercial
disposal facility in Utah.
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