Formerly Utilized Sites Remedial Action Program

The program is designed to clean up low-level radioactive waste generated during the early years of the nation's atomic energy program. Congress added the Colonie and Maywood sites to the program because the waste was similar to that of sites in FUSRAP. Contamination at the sites consists mainly of low levels of uranium, radium and thorium on building surfaces and in soil. Much of the contamination resulted from processing ores to recover uranium and thorium during the 1940s, 1950s, and 1960s.

Remedial work is actively ongoing at five remediation sites under control of the New York District. The five sites - in Wayne, Maywood and Middlesex in New Jersey, and Colonie and Sylvania in New York - are being cleaned up under the Formerly Utilized Sites Remedial Action Program. The Corps assumed control of FUSRAP in October 1997 from the Department of Energy.

FUSRAP Factsheets 

| Colonie | Maywood| Wayne | Middlesex Sampling Plant| Sylvania | Middlesex Municipal Landfill

For more information on the FUSRAP program overall, please visit theU.S. Army Corps of Engineers HQ FUSRAP page.