[Federal Register Volume 64, Number 59 (Monday, March 29, 1999)]
[Notices]
[Pages 14914-14915]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 99-7334]


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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

[FRL-6315-3]


Notice of Proposed Administrative Order on Consent Pursuant to 
Section 122(g) of the Comprehensive Environmental Response, 
Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA), Osage Metals Superfund Site, 
Kansas City, KS, Docket No. CERCLA-7-99-0010

AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).


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ACTION: Notice of proposed administrative order on consent, Osage 
Metals Superfund Site, Kansas City, Kansas.

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SUMMARY: Notice is hereby given that a proposed administrative order on 
consent regarding the Osage Metals Superfund Site, was signed by 21 
private parties, approved by the United States Department of Justice 
(DOJ) on January 13, 1999, and signed by the United States 
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) on February 25, 1999.

DATES: EPA will receive comments relating to the proposed agreement and 
covenant not to sue until April 28, 1999.

ADDRESSES: Comments should be addressed to Audrey Asher, Senior 
Assistant Regional Counsel, United States Environmental Protection 
Agency, Region VII, 726 Minnesota Avenue, Kansas City, Kansas 66101 and 
should refer to the Osage Metals Superfund Site Administrative Order on 
Consent, EPA Docket No. CERCLA-7-99-0010.
    The proposed agreement may be examined or obtained in person or by 
mail at the office of the United States Environmental Protection 
Agency, Region VII, 726 Minnesota Avenue, Kansas City, KS 66101 (913) 
551-7255.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The proposed agreement concerns the 1.7-acre 
Osage Metals Superfund Site (``Site''), located at 120 Osage Avenue in 
Kansas City, Kansas. The Site was the location of metals salvage and 
reclamation facilities between 1948 and 1993. Samples taken at the Site 
in 1994 found polychlorinated biphenyls (``PCBs'') in surface soils at 
levels as high as 334 mg/kg, and lead contamination in levels as high 
as 56,600 mg/kg. The EPA approved a removal action at the Site on 
February 13, 1995, and began cleanup in March of 1995. EPA completed 
its work in October 1995. No further response action is anticipated.
    As of May 31, 1998, EPA and DOJ had incurred costs in excess of 
$1.3 million exclusive of interest. Each of the proposed settlors 
arranged for disposal of capacitors contaminated with PCBs with PCB 
Treatment, Inc. PCB Treatment, Inc. then arranged for disposal at the 
Site of scrap metal from the capacitors.
    EPA has determined that any party who arranged for disposal of 
between 206 and 89,387 pounds of capacitors contributed a de minimis 
volume of waste to the Site and that such wastes are not more toxic 
than any other hazardous substance at the Site.
    Each settlor will pay a share of costs based on its volumetric 
share of capacitor weight compared to all capacitor weight with an 
additional premium of 15%.
    Through this settlement EPA will recover $14,000. EPA has recovered 
$80,000 through a consent decree with the former owner/operator and 
over $194,000 through Administrative Orders on Consent with other 
potentially responsible parties at the Site. Negotiations of other 
settlements with potentially responsible parties are pending.

    Dated: March 15, 1999.
Dennis Grams,
Regional Administrator, Region VII.
[FR Doc. 99-7334 Filed 3-26-99; 8:45 am]
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