The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers on Monday said it should within a couple weeks issue a formal procurement notice for environmental remediation at multiple locations in its St. Louis, Mo., District under the Formerly Utilized Sites Remedial Action Program (FUSRAP).
The Army Corps intends to issue a cost-plus-fixed-fee award for cleanup of hazardous, toxic, and radioactive wastes, according to a notice Monday in the FedBizOpps federal contracting website. A single award is anticipated as a small business set aside.
“The work encompasses any and all remediation work for remedial actions including general conditions, field engineering, radiological/safety support services, remediation of contaminated soil, and management services,” the notice says. “The work anticipated under this contract is primarily for, but not limited to, low level radioactive contaminated material removal. Radiological contaminates are primarily thorium, radium and uranium, with co-located non-radiological contamination such as cadmium and arsenic.”
The notice does not provide any detail regarding the potential value or length of the contract; an Army Corps spokesperson on Tuesday said that information might not be released until the actual award. The official solicitation is scheduled to be issued during the week of April 8.
FUSRAP, established in 1974, identifies, evaluates, and remediates sites that were radioactively contaminated from the 1940s to 1960s by nuclear-weapon and energy operations of the Manhattan Engineer District and Atomic Energy Commission. The Army Corps took over management in 1997 from the Department of Energy, but the Trump administration wants to return it to DOE in the next federal budget year.
The remediation operations would cover two primary locations:
- The St. Louis Downtown Site, used from 1942 to 1957 by Mallinckrodt Chemical Works for uranium-compound processing, machining, and uranium metal recovery.
- The St. Louis North County Sites, encompassing the St. Louis Airport Site (SLAPS) and SLAPS Vicinity Properties. SLAPS and nearby properties were used for decades to store various residues generated by uranium processing by Mallinckrodt.
