diff --git a/Control/AthOnnxruntimeUtils/AthOnnxruntimeUtils/OnnxUtils.h b/Control/AthOnnxruntimeUtils/AthOnnxruntimeUtils/OnnxUtils.h
index 21e1096a360a68912d13a3fe38299b8feda44cd7..cc4816226daba766d1d73977d6f0d0df69d206ac 100644
--- a/Control/AthOnnxruntimeUtils/AthOnnxruntimeUtils/OnnxUtils.h
+++ b/Control/AthOnnxruntimeUtils/AthOnnxruntimeUtils/OnnxUtils.h
@@ -67,7 +67,7 @@ namespace AthONNX {
     Ort::SessionOptions sessionOptions;
     sessionOptions.SetIntraOpNumThreads( 1 );
     if (withCUDA) {
-      Ort::ThrowOnError(OrtSessionOptionsAppendExecutionProvider_CUDA(sessionOptions, 0));
+      ;  // does nothing for now until we have a GPU enabled build
     }
     sessionOptions.SetGraphOptimizationLevel( GraphOptimizationLevel::ORT_ENABLE_EXTENDED );
 
@@ -80,28 +80,6 @@ namespace AthONNX {
    }
 
 
-/****************************Creation of ORT Session for GPU******************************/
-/*****************************************************************************************/
-
- //template<typename T>
- inline std::unique_ptr< Ort::Session > CreateORTSessionGPU(const std::string& modelFile){
-
-    // Set up the ONNX Runtime session.
-    Ort::SessionOptions sessionOptions;
-    Ort::ThrowOnError (OrtSessionOptionsAppendExecutionProvider_CUDA(sessionOptions,0));
-    sessionOptions.SetIntraOpNumThreads( 1 );
-    sessionOptions.SetGraphOptimizationLevel( ORT_ENABLE_BASIC );
-
-    ServiceHandle< IONNXRuntimeSvc > svc("AthONNX::ONNXRuntimeSvc",
-                                              "AthONNX::ONNXRuntimeSvc");
-
-    return std::make_unique<Ort::Session>( svc->env(),
-                                     modelFile.c_str(),
-                                     sessionOptions );
-   }
-
-
-
 /*********************************Input Node Structure of Model*********************************/
 /***********************************************************************************************/
 
diff --git a/Control/AthOnnxruntimeUtils/CMakeLists.txt b/Control/AthOnnxruntimeUtils/CMakeLists.txt
index 42e610f5cac2849698f32714d34be088b862f9bb..de53f529136561a42e24f320d920b35ef9b9c65d 100644
--- a/Control/AthOnnxruntimeUtils/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/Control/AthOnnxruntimeUtils/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -9,4 +9,3 @@ atlas_add_library( AthOnnxruntimeUtilsLib
    PUBLIC_HEADERS AthOnnxruntimeUtils
    INCLUDE_DIRS ${ONNXRUNTIME_INCLUDE_DIRS}
    LINK_LIBRARIES ${ONNXRUNTIME_LIBRARIES} AthOnnxruntimeServiceLib AthenaKernel GaudiKernel AsgServicesLib )
-