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The former RMI Extrusion Plant near Ashtabula, about 50 miles northeast of Cleveland, processed uranium for nuclear programs between 1962 and 1988. A private company was selected to get $1.1 million in stimulus money for what it says is contaminated soil left at the site.

That decision, announced last month by the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency, created confusion among federal regulators, who celebrated the end of cleanup with a ceremony in 2007 featuring then-Secretary of Energy Samuel Bodman.

"We're not aware of any remaining problems there," U.S. Energy Department spokesman Bill Taylor said. "If there were an outstanding issue, we'd still be out there working.