diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 28bb40ee5ec69279386cc4c65b938c0e5f4bd589..1aa5029ca7fa5a0d41ef8d9573948a51debd5d75 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -31,9 +31,7 @@ See [common_bench](https://eicweb.phy.anl.gov/EIC/benchmarks/common_bench) for d
 Here we setup to use our local build of the `juggler` library.
 First set some environment variables.
 ```
-export JUGGLER_INSTALL_PREFIX=/usr/local 
 export DETECTOR=epic             # athena is the default
-export BEAMLINE_CONFIG=ip6       # ip6 is the default
 ```
 
 ```
diff --git a/benchmarks/backgrounds/synchrotron.sh b/benchmarks/backgrounds/synchrotron.sh
index de796f4d0acc1ce88a529d24bc2949915b7eaafe..2973ccc5b5962e47e6e5faa16d1a072769e2c123 100644
--- a/benchmarks/backgrounds/synchrotron.sh
+++ b/benchmarks/backgrounds/synchrotron.sh
@@ -84,7 +84,6 @@ echo "DETECTOR    = ${DETECTOR}"
 
 
 ## To run the reconstruction, we need the following global variables:
-## - JUGGLER_INSTALL_PREFIX: Install prefix for Juggler (simu/recon)
 ## - DETECTOR:       the detector package we want to use for this benchmark
 ## - DETECTOR_PATH:          full path to the detector definitions
 
diff --git a/benchmarks/dis/analysis-only.sh b/benchmarks/dis/analysis-only.sh
index 14589ad1adf0d4371315bf1f593410f121552925..d3685aafbf73b64e0b37241fed16bb65cd61564b 100755
--- a/benchmarks/dis/analysis-only.sh
+++ b/benchmarks/dis/analysis-only.sh
@@ -27,7 +27,6 @@ echo "Running the DIS benchmarks"
 source parse_cmd.sh $@
 
 ## To run the reconstruction, we need the following global variables:
-## - JUGGLER_INSTALL_PREFIX: Install prefix for Juggler (simu/recon)
 ## - DETECTOR:       the detector package we want to use for this benchmark
 ## - DETECTOR_PATH:          full path to the detector definitions
 ##
diff --git a/benchmarks/dis/dis.sh b/benchmarks/dis/dis.sh
index 7bf792f881b0280f7cc0b8c16601889c4d72f11d..e46b7ae2a98dd432455387134eadebe299f1ef29 100755
--- a/benchmarks/dis/dis.sh
+++ b/benchmarks/dis/dis.sh
@@ -28,7 +28,6 @@ export REQUIRE_MINQ2=true
 source ${LOCAL_PREFIX}/bin/parse_cmd.sh $@
 
 ## To run the reconstruction, we need the following global variables:
-## - JUGGLER_INSTALL_PREFIX: Install prefix for Juggler (simu/recon)
 ## - DETECTOR:       the detector package we want to use for this benchmark
 ## - DETECTOR_PATH:          full path to the detector definitions
 ##
diff --git a/benchmarks/dvcs/dvcs.sh b/benchmarks/dvcs/dvcs.sh
index 1bb063e130c511cc51dd1d524f4ee4281428f274..cb07cb0b8565a34e46edd78deadc97e08d94e421 100644
--- a/benchmarks/dvcs/dvcs.sh
+++ b/benchmarks/dvcs/dvcs.sh
@@ -84,7 +84,6 @@ echo "DETECTOR    = ${DETECTOR}"
 
 
 ## To run the reconstruction, we need the following global variables:
-## - JUGGLER_INSTALL_PREFIX: Install prefix for Juggler (simu/recon)
 ## - DETECTOR:       the detector package we want to use for this benchmark
 ## - DETECTOR_PATH:          full path to the detector definitions
 
diff --git a/benchmarks/tcs/tcs.sh b/benchmarks/tcs/tcs.sh
index a260f78af2bb59eabca55d5a883b1b164227568a..bcbb15501d5f237cc45c55481d3e7cc92cb3dc2d 100644
--- a/benchmarks/tcs/tcs.sh
+++ b/benchmarks/tcs/tcs.sh
@@ -102,7 +102,6 @@ echo "DETECTOR    = ${DETECTOR}"
 
 
 ## To run the reconstruction, we need the following global variables:
-## - JUGGLER_INSTALL_PREFIX: Install prefix for Juggler (simu/recon)
 ## - DETECTOR:       the detector package we want to use for this benchmark
 ## - DETECTOR_PATH:          full path to the detector definitions
 
diff --git a/benchmarks/u_omega/u_omega.sh b/benchmarks/u_omega/u_omega.sh
index 095a6a1ed9880984a3f7cdb4d1479dcb7b596d15..86653dd5dc404a3f9c00d3b672bf7675c87fb63b 100644
--- a/benchmarks/u_omega/u_omega.sh
+++ b/benchmarks/u_omega/u_omega.sh
@@ -83,7 +83,6 @@ echo "JUGGLER_N_EVENTS    = ${JUGGLER_N_EVENTS}"
 echo "DETECTOR    = ${DETECTOR}"
 
 ## To run the reconstruction, we need the following global variables:
-## - JUGGLER_INSTALL_PREFIX: Install prefix for Juggler (simu/recon)
 ## - DETECTOR:       the detector package we want to use for this benchmark
 ## - DETECTOR_PATH:          full path to the detector definitions