Operable Unit

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Operable Unit: - Term for each of a number of separate activities undertaken as part of a Superfund site cleanup. A typical operable unit would be removal of drums and tanks from the surface of a site.
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Perpetuity’: No end date in Nease  -  Jul 31, 2008
SalemNews.net,The EPA had also approved a cleanup plan, in 2006, to address a portion of the site known as Operable Unit 2. Ground water and mirex-contaminated soil

EPA Proposes Cleanup Plan for Two Creeks Near Nease Superfund Site ...  -  Jul 11, 2008
FOXBusinessSeparate from the work outlined in this proposed cleanup plan, EPA approved a cleanup plan in 2006 to address the portion of the site known as Operable Unit

Public Comment Period Extended for Proposed Change to the Soil ...  -  Jul 14, 2008
U.S. EPA.gov (press release),Based on information collected over the past several years during the remedial design, EPA is proposing a fundamental change to the Operable Unit 1 remedy

Meeting on Nease cleanup scheduled  -  Jul 11, 2008
SalemNews.net,The EPA also approved a cleanup plan in 2006 to address a portion of the site known as Operable Unit 2. Ground water and mirex-contaminated soil cleanup is

US$3.8m cleanup planned for tainted creeks near Ohio superfund site  -  Jul 15, 2008
Environmental Expert (press release),...the work outlined in this proposed cleanup plan, EPA approved a cleanup plan in 2006 to address the portion of the Nease site known as Operable Unit 2.

State DNR, EPA propose design changes for PCB cleanup in Fox Valley  -  Nov 23, 2007
Bizjournals.com,Little Lake Butte des Morts is known as Operable Unit 1 of the Lower Fox River cleanup effort, a proposed Superfund National Priorities List site.

Regulators scale back on PCB dredging of Little Lake Butte des Morts  -  Nov 27, 2007
Green Bay Press Gazette,Little Lake Butte des Morts is known as operable unit 1 of the lower Fox River cleanup. Operable units 2 to 5 include the stretch of the river from Appleton

Forest Service Signs Record of Decision for Meyers Landfill near ...  -  Nov 29, 2007
YubaNet,Compensation (CERCLA) Record of Decision on November 15, 2007, for the remedy of Operable Unit 1, at the Meyers Landfill site near South Lake Tahoe.

EPA Order: Begin Cleanup on Remaining Stretch of Fox River  -  Nov 19, 2007
WebWire (press release),...(Little Lake Butte des Morts is Operable Unit 1. Cleanup work began at the lake in 2004 and is expected to continue into 2009.) The order requires action by

Public Meeting to be Held on EPA Proposed Cleanup Plan for Areas ...  -  Aug 13, 2007
WebWire (press release),EPA will hold a public meeting to present the proposed plan for cleanup of Operable Unit 1 at the Ward Transformer Superfund Site (the Site) in Raleigh,

HAFB to redraw its map showing pollution plume  -  Aug 19, 2007
Deseret News,Barbara Hall, the project manager over the Layton plume, known as Operable Unit 8, said it's still too early to give the plume a new drawing.

Geoinformatics Acquires Utah Copper-Gold Porphyry Project  -  Aug 23, 2007
Market Wire (press release)It includes an area surrounding the town of Stockton known as Operable Unit 2 ("OU2"). A portion of the Option Lands lies within OU2.

AAFB seeks feedback on site proposal  -  Jul 31, 2007
KUAM.com,Thtee proposed plans that evaluate the potential risks for both humans and the environment, have been prepared for sites within the main base operable unit

Wits Basin Provides Update on Bates-Hunter Mine Project  -  Aug 20, 2007
Business Wire (press release),US Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) Clear Creek/Central City Superfund Site, Operable Unit 4 (ftp://ftp.epa.gov/r8/RODS/ClearCreekOU4ROD.pdf).

Mound cleanup touted as model of restoration  -  Jul 27, 2007
Dayton Daily News (subscription),The landfill, called Operable Unit 1, was used over the years to dispose of some 2500 crushed 55-gallon drums contaminated with radioactive thorium and sand

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