[Federal Register Volume 85, Number 192 (Friday, October 2, 2020)]
[Notices]
[Pages 62298-62299]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2020-21802]
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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
[CERCLA-10-2020-0142; FRL-10014-61-Region 10]
Proposed CERCLA Administrative Settlement; Spokane Recycling
Company
AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
ACTION: Notice; request for public comment.
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SUMMARY: In accordance with 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 Former Kaiser
Smelter Site, Mead, Washington, with the following settling party:
Spokane Recycling Company. The settlement requires the settling party
to pay 50% of the net sales proceeds of the sale of the Property or
$325,000, whichever is less to EPA to be used to conduct or finance
response actions undertaken at the Site or to be transferred by EPA 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 November 2, 2020.
ADDRESSES: The proposed settlement is available electronically for
public inspection at https://semspub.epa.gov/src/collections/10/AR/WAN001020091. Submit your comments, identified by EPA Docket No.
CERCLA-10-2020-0142, 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,
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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: Brooks Stanfield, Federal On-SceneCoordinator, at
stanfield.brooks@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-
2020-0142. 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://semspub.epa.gov/src/collections/10/AR/WAN001020091 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://semspub.epa.gov/src/collections/10/AR/WAN001020091.
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: Brooks Stanfield, Federal On-Scene
Coordinator, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Region 10, 1200
Sixth Avenue, Suite 155, 13-J07, Seattle, WA 98101, (206) 553-4432,
email: stanfield.brooks@epa.gov; and/or Kristin Leefers, Assistant
Regional Counsel, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Region 10, 1200
Sixth Avenue, Suite 155, M/S: 11-C07, Seattle, WA 98101, (206) 553-
1532, email: leefers.kristin@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 requires the settling party to pay 50% of the net sales
proceeds of the sale of the Property or $325,000, whichever is less to
EPA to be used to conduct or finance response actions undertaken at the
Site or to be transferred by EPA to the Hazardous Substance Superfund.
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: September 28, 2020.
Calvin Terada,
Division Director, Superfund and Emergency Management Division, Region
10.
[FR Doc. 2020-21802 Filed 10-1-20; 8:45 am]
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