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Wyoming EEOICPA Facilities
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This mill processing uranium and vanadium ore from 1958 to 1963. These milling operations are covered under the auspices of the Radiation Exposure Compensation Act and are not separately covered under EEOICPA. However DOE environmental remediation contractors performed remediation under the Uranium Mill Tailings Radiation Control Act (Public Law 95-604) at the Uranium Mill in Converse County, known at the Spook Site, in 1989. DOE and DOE contractor employees who performed this remediation are covered under EEOICPA.
The ore buying station at Crooks Gap purchased uranium ore for the AEC. The Lucius Pitkin managed and operated the Crooks Gap station from December 1956 to July 1957. The AEC leased the land and equipment from a private company.
The ore buying station at Riverton purchased uranium ore for the AEC. The American Smelting and Refining Company (ASRC) managed and operated the Riverton station from March 1955 to January 1956. Lucius Pitkin replaced ASRC as the M&O contractor in February 1956. The AEC leased the land on which the ore buying station was located from a railroad.
Milling
operations were conducted at this location from
1958 to 1963. These milling operations are
covered under the auspices of the Radiation
Exposure Compensation Act and are not separately
covered under EEOICPA. However, DOE
environmental remediation contractors performed
remediation under the Uranium Mill Tailings
Radiation Control Act (Public Law 95-604) at the
Uranium Mill in Riverton from May 1988 –
September 1990. DOE and DOE contractor employees
who performed this remediation are covered under
EEOICPA.