[Federal Register Volume 85, Number 169 (Monday, August 31, 2020)]
[Notices]
[Pages 53811-53812]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2020-19081]
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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
[CERCLA-10-2020-0105; FRL-10013-76-Region 10]
Proposed CERCLA Administrative Cashout Settlement; S.C. Breen
Construction Company
AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
ACTION: Notice; request for public comment.
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SUMMARY: In accordance with Section 122(i) of the Comprehensive
Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act., as amended
(``CERCLA''), notice is hereby given of a proposed administrative
settlement for recovery of past and projected future response costs
concerning the Hamilton/Labree Roads Groundwater Contamination Site in
Chehalis, Washington, with the following settling party: S.C. Breen
Construction Company. The settlement requires the settling party to pay
$3,250,000 to the Hazardous Substance Superfund. The settlement
includes a covenant not to sue the settling party. For thirty (30) days
following the date of publication of this document, the Agency will
receive written comments relating to the settlement. The Agency will
consider all comments and may modify or withdraw its consent to the
settlement if comments received disclose facts or considerations which
indicate that the settlement is inappropriate, improper, or inadequate.
The Agency's response to any comments received will be available
electronically for public inspection at https://www.regulations.gov.
DATES: Comments must be submitted on or before September 30, 2020.
ADDRESSES: The proposed settlement is available electronically for
public inspection at https://www.regulations.gov. Submit your comments,
identified by EPA Docket No. CERCLA-10-2020-0105, by one of the
following methods:
https://www.regulations.gov. Follow on-line instructions
for submitting comments. Once submitted, comments cannot be edited or
removed from Regulations.gov. EPA may publish any comment received to
its public docket. Do not submit electronically any information you
consider to be Confidential Business Information (``CBI'') or other
information whose disclosure is restricted by statute. Multimedia
submissions (audio, video, etc.) must be accompanied by a written
comment. The written comment is considered the official comment and
should include discussion of all points you wish to make. EPA will
generally not consider comments or comment contents located outside of
the primary submission (i.e. on the web, cloud, or other file sharing
system). For additional submission methods, the full EPA public comment
policy, information about CBI or multimedia submissions, and general
guidance on making effective comments, please visit https://www2.epa.gov/dockets/commenting-epa-dockets.
Email: Andrea Lindsay, Community Involvement Coordinator,
at lindsay.andrea@epa.gov.
Written comments submitted by mail are temporarily
suspended, and no hand deliveries will be accepted. We encourage the
public to submit comments via https://www.regulations.gov.
Instructions: Direct your comments to EPA Docket No. CERCLA-10-
2020-
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0105. EPA's policy is that all comments received will be included in
the public docket without change and may be made available online at
https://www.regulations.gov, including any personal information
provided, unless the comment includes information claimed to be CBI or
other information whose disclosure is restricted by statute. Do not
submit information that you consider to be CBI or otherwise protected
through https://www.regulations.gov or email. The https://www.regulations.gov website is an ``anonymous access'' system, which
means EPA will not know your identity or contact information unless you
provide it in the body of your comment. If you send an email comment
directly to EPA without going through https://www.regulations.gov, your
email address will be automatically captured and included as part of
the comment that is placed in the public docket and made available on
the internet. If you submit an electronic comment, EPA recommends that
you include your name and other contact information in the body of your
comment and with any disk or CD-ROM you submit. If EPA cannot read your
comment due to technical difficulties and cannot contact you for
clarification, EPA may not be able to consider your comment. Electronic
files should avoid the use of special characters, any form of
encryption, and be free of any defects or viruses.
Docket: All documents in the docket are listed in the https://www.regulations.gov index. Although listed in the index, some
information is not publicly available, e.g., CBI or other information
whose disclosure is restricted by statute. Certain other material, such
as copyrighted material, will be publicly available only in the hard
copy. Publicly available docket materials are available electronically
in https://www.regulations.gov.
EPA is temporarily suspending its Docket Center and Regional
Records Centers for public visitors to reduce the risk of transmitting
COVID-19. In addition, many site information repositories are closed,
and information in these repositories, including the deletion docket,
has not been updated with hardcopy or electronic media. For further
information and updates on EPA Docket Center services, please visit us
online at https://www.epa.gov/dockets.
EPA continues to carefully and continuously monitor information
from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), local area
health departments, and our Federal partners so that we can respond
rapidly as conditions change regarding COVID.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Robert Tan, Remedial Project Manager,
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Region 10, 1200 Sixth Avenue,
Suite 155, 12-D12-1, Seattle, WA 98101, (206) 553-2580, email:
Tan.Robert@epa.gov; and/or Nick Vidargas, Attorney Advisor, U.S.
Environmental Protection Agency, Region 10, 1200 Sixth Avenue, Suite
155, 11-09, Seattle, WA 98101, (206) 553-1460, email:
Vidargas.Nick@epa.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This settlement is entered into pursuant to
the authority under section 122(h)(1) of CERCLA, 42 U.S.C. 9622(h)(1),
to settle claims under section 107 of CERCLA, 42 U.S.C. 9607, with the
prior written approval of the Attorney General. The settlement
agreement provides for payment of $3,250,000 from the settling party to
the Site's Hazardous Substance Superfund special account, to be used
towards remedial actions at the Site. The settlement also includes a
covenant not to sue the settling party pursuant to sections 106 and
107(a) of CERCLA, 42 U.S.C. 9606 and 9607(a).
Authority: 42 U.S.C. 9601-9657.
Dated: August 25, 2020.
Calvin Terada,
Division Director, Superfund and Emergency Management Division, Region
10.
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