Colonie FUSRAP Site Map

Colonie Site (FUSRAP Site)

The Colonie Site is located in the Town of Colonie in Albany County, New York, approximately 6.5 kilometers (four miles) northwest of downtown Albany. The site was owned and operated by National Lead Industries from the late 1930s to the 1980s. The site was first used as a foundry, and it was later used to manufacture thorium and depleted uranium products. Cleanup efforts began and materials containing low levels of radioactivity were removed from all but three of the vicinity properties and stored inside the site’s main building for future disposition. The other three properties are adjacent to the site and will be cleaned up when the site’s grounds are remediated. EM completed this site as a part of the Formerly Utilized Sites Remedial Action Program (FUSRAP). The FUSRAP Program was transferred to the United States Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) in 1997, in accordance with the Energy and Water Development Appropriations Act for FY 1998. Cleanup responsibilities transferred at that time from DOE-EM to the USACE.