Durango Uranium Mill Information
Location
Durango, Colorado
The AEC purchased the 147-acre uranium mill site in Durango, Colorado, in 1948 from the Vanadium Corporation of America. The AEC leased the facility back to Vanadium that same year, with an option to purchase the facility in 1953. Between 1948 and 1953, Vanadium operated the mill on behalf of the AEC. The company exercised its purchase option in 1953, and thereafter, the mill was operated as a privately owned facility. The company shut down and dismantled the mill in March 1963.
Additionally, from October 1986 through May 1991, DOE environmental remediation contractors performed environmental remediation, under the Uranium Mill Tailings Radiation Control Act (Public Law 95-604) at this mill. DOE and DOE contractor employees who performed this remediation are covered under EEOICPA.
Alternative Names
- Durango Processing Site
- Durango Disposal Site
Type of Facility
- Atomic Weapons Employer
- Beryllium Vendor
- Department of Energy
Covered by EEOICPA
- Part B and Part E
EEOICPA Covered Years
- 1948-1953
- October 1986-May 1991 (remediation)
Contractors
- Metals Reserve Company
- US Vanadium
- Manhattan Engineer District
- Vanadium Corporation of America
- Nielsen’s, Inc. (remediation)
- MK-Ferguson (remediation)
Contract Numbers
- AT(49-l)-305
- AT(05-l)-747
- AT(05-l)-900
- AT(05-l)-900. modification 1
DOE
DOL
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- 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
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