Ambrosia Lake Uranium Mill Information
Location
Ambrosia Lake, New Mexico
This former mill processed more than 3 million tons of uranium ore between 1958 and 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 at this location from July 1987 to April 1989 and again from October 1992 to July 1995 under the Uranium Mill Tailings Radiation Control Act (Public Law 95-604). Environmental remediation performed at the site involved the demolition of buildings, construction of decontamination facilities, and the excavation, consolidation and encapsulation of all contaminated material on site in an engineered disposal cell. DOE and DOE contractor employees who performed this remediation are covered under EEOICPA.
Type of Facility
- Department of Energy
Covered by EEOICPA
- Part B and Part E
EEOICPA Covered Years
- July 1987-April 1989 (remediation)
- October 1992-July 1995 (remediation)
Contractors
- Kermac Nuclear Fuels
- Kerr-McGee
- Philips Petroleum
- United Nuclear
- Homestake Mining Company
- MK-Ferguson (remediation)
Contract Numbers
- AT(05-1)-729
- AT(OS-1)-737
- DE-AC04-76GJ01658
DOE
DOL
- Tracking your DOL Claim Status
- Advisory Board on Toxic Substances and Worker Health
- Ombudsman’s Office
- Resource Center
- DOL Case and Claim Statistics
- Site Exposure Matrix
- Circular 12-05: Employment at 17 new facilities is now covered under the Energy Employees Occupational Illness Compensation Program Act (EEOICPA) and additional years of employment have been added at three facilities
NIOSH
Nuclear Regulatory Commission
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