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environmental compliance
and area completion projects

Environmental Compliance and Area 785 37
Completion Projects (EC&ACP) continued
its extensive history of reducing risks Environmental Remediation
to human health and the environment at regulatory systems operated
SRS. Work continued on remediating large
tracts of acreage both above and below commitments at SRS
ground, and providing environmental completed in FY15 in FY15
support to SRS operations.
Since 2008,
During FY2015, EC&ACP completed 119 EC&ACP has decommissioned and
Federal Facility Agreement or Resource demolished 38 structures (including two
Conservation and Recovery Act commitments production reactors decommissioned “in-
on or ahead of schedule; managed 514
environmental permits without any non- situ”); reduced the SRS footprint
compliances; and completed sampling and by 85 percent to industrial standards;
analysis on more than 2,000 groundwater
monitoring wells. The innovative injection and collected more than 63,000
of silver chloride into F Area groundwater environmental samples.
(pictured at right) was conducted to
remediate iodine 129. Edible oil injection
was completed in TNX Area groundwater to
stimulate microbial remediation of volatile
organic compounds. Also, the SRS 2014
Environmental Report was published; the
report can found on the web at http://
irmsrv02.srs.gov/general/pubs/ERsum/
er14/index.html.

D Area Ash Basin EC&ACP began cleanup of the D Area ash basin and ash landfill,

having removed 100 percent of the planned ash from the 100-acre project.

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