Planned removal activities on-site included:

a)      Developing and implementing a site-specific Health and Safety Plan, including an Air Monitoring Plan, and a site Emergency Contingency Plan;
 

b)      Developing and implementing a Site Work Plan that includes a Site Security Plan;

c)      Securing, characterizing, and sampling known and suspected hazardous substances, contained or uncontained, at the site;

d)     Consolidating and packaging hazardous substances, pollutants and contaminants for transportation and off-site disposal;

e)      Decontaminating contaminated structures as necessary;

f)       Transporting and disposing of all characterized or identified hazardous substances, pollutants, wastes, or contaminants that pose a substantial threat of release (except NORM) at a Resource Conservation and Recovery Act/CERCLA-approved disposal facility in accordance with  EPA’s Off-site Rule (40 C.F.R. § 300.440), as applicable;

g)      Removing and reusing or disposing of NORM in accordance with CERCLA and with all applicable state regulations; and

h)      Taking any other response actions to address any release or threatened release of a hazardous substance, pollutant and contaminant that the U.S. EPA OSC determines may pose an imminent and substantial endangerment to the public health or the environment.   

Additional planned site activities, if needed, included security, perimeter air monitoring, and decontamination on the site, as needed to complete the removal action. 

EPA’s Health Physicist anticipates returning to the site the week of 3/3/14 to collect and properly dispose of the radium source from the roundhouse.

We will also receive soil sampling results back for the soil below the metal shavings piles. Next steps for that area will be evaluated upon review of results.  

Keys to the buildings and the gate have been left with the Ashtabula Fire Chief, and OEPA in case of emergency.  

* The above accounting of expenditures is an estimate based on figures known to the OSC at the time this report was written. The OSC does not necessarily receive specific figures on final payments made to any contractor(s). Other financial data which the OSC must rely upon may not be entirely up-to-date. The cost accounting provided in this report does not necessarily represent an exact monetary figure which the government may include in any claim for cost recovery.