 According to the decommissioning plan the "Sturgis" will be relocated to Galveston, Texas, where CB&I will remove the residual radioactive waste materials.After that the remaining portions of the barge will be transported to Brownsville, Texas, for disposal or recycling as scrap, using standard ship-breaking methods – the entire process was as of 2014 anticipated to be completed in under four years.The move to Galveston, originally planned for September 2014, was delayed waiting for the city to issue a permit for the decommissioning.