diff --git a/nemo/collections/nlp/models/language_modeling/megatron_retrieval_model.py b/nemo/collections/nlp/models/language_modeling/megatron_retrieval_model.py
index d7167eeae3ce..42323e503f7d 100644
--- a/nemo/collections/nlp/models/language_modeling/megatron_retrieval_model.py
+++ b/nemo/collections/nlp/models/language_modeling/megatron_retrieval_model.py
@@ -56,7 +56,6 @@
 )
 from nemo.collections.nlp.parts.nlp_overrides import GradScaler
 from nemo.utils import AppState, logging
-from nemo.utils.decorators import deprecated
 
 try:
     from megatron.core import parallel_state