§7912 Processing site designations

Summary

The Secretary must name processing sites at or near the specific locations listed no later than one year after November 8, 1978. He must finish cleanup at those listed sites before his authority under this law ends. Within that same one-year period he must also identify any other U.S. processing sites needing cleanup. In making these choices he must work with the Administrator, the Commission, the states involved, and for Indian lands, the tribe and the Secretary of the Interior. The Secretary and the Commission must set the boundaries for each site. Sites already covered by Public Law 92–314 in Grand Junction, Colorado may not be re-designated here. Within one year from November 8, 1978 the Secretary must check the health risk from leftover radioactive material at the designated sites and set cleanup priorities, using the Administrator’s advice as the main guide. He must tell each affected governor, and any tribes and the Secretary of the Interior when appropriate, within thirty days after naming sites and setting priorities. Those decisions are final and cannot be reviewed by a court. The Secretary should include areas described in section 7911(6)(B) as much as possible and may add them later if needed. He must also designate contaminated property near the TVA uranium mill at Edgemont, South Dakota as a processing site if it has residual radioactive material. The Moab, Utah uranium mill site (identified in the Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s March 1996 Final Environmental Impact Statement linked to Source Materials License No. SUA–917) is designated a processing site. The subchapter applies to Moab the same as to other sites except that sections 7913, 7914(b), 7917(a), 7922(a), and 7925(a) do not apply, and references to November 8, 1978 are treated as references to October 30, 2000. If funds are provided, the Secretary must carry out Moab cleanup safely and in line with the remedial plan called for in section 3405(i) of the Strom Thurmond National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1999, including groundwater restoration and moving contaminated material from the Moab site and the Colorado River floodplain to a permanent location in Utah.