[Federal Register Volume 65, Number 51 (Wednesday, March 15, 2000)]
[Notices]
[Pages 13967-13969]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 00-6395]


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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

[FRL-6539-3]


Casmalia Disposal Site; Notice of Proposed CERCLA Administrative 
De Minimis Settlement

AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency.

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''), 42 U.S.C. 9622(i), the Environmental Protection Agency 
(``EPA'') is hereby providing notice of a proposed administrative de 
minimis settlement concerning the Casmalia Disposal Site in Santa 
Barbara County, California (``the Casmalia Disposal Site''). Section 
122(g) of CERCLA, 42 U.S.C. 9622(g), provides EPA with the authority to 
enter into administrative de minimis settlements. This settlement is 
intended to resolve the liabilities of 433 settling parties for the 
Casmalia Disposal Site under CERCLA and section 7003 of the Resource 
Conservation and Recovery Act (``RCRA''), 42 U.S.C. 6973. For most of 
the settling parties, the settlement will also resolve their Casmalia 
Disposal Site-related liability for the response costs for the federal 
Natural Resources Trustees' (the United States Fish and Wildlife 
Service, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, and the 
United States Department of the Air Force), and potential natural 
resource damages. The settling parties will pay a total of $27.6 
million toward Casmalia Disposal Site response costs.
    For thirty (30) days following the date of publication of this 
notice, EPA will receive written comments relating to the settlement. 
In accordance with section 7003(d) of RCRA, 42 U.S.C. 6973(d), 
commenters may request an opportunity for a public meeting in the 
affected area. EPA will consider all comments it receives during this 
period, and may modify or withdraw its consent to the settlement if any 
comments disclose facts or considerations indicating that the 
settlement is inappropriate, improper, or inadequate.

DATES: Comments must be submitted on or before April 14, 2000.

ADDRESSES: Comments and requests for a public meeting should be 
addressed to the Regional Hearing Clerk, U.S. EPA Region IX (ORC-1), 75 
Hawthorne Street, San Francisco, CA 94105-3901, and should refer to: 
Casmalia Disposal Site, Santa Barbara County, CA, U.S. EPA Docket No. 
99-02(a). The proposed settlement and additional background information 
relating to the settlement are available for inspection, and EPA's 
response to any comments received will be available for inspection, at 
the U. S. EPA Region IX Superfund Records Center (415-536-2000), 95 
Hawthorne Street, Suite 403 S, San Francisco, CA 94105-3901 and at the 
Santa Maria Library (805-925-0994), 420 South Broadway, Santa Maria, CA 
93454. A copy of the proposed Administrative Order on Consent may be 
obtained from the Regional Hearing Clerk at the address provided above.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The following are parties to this de minimis 
settlement:
    A & H Plating, Inc.; Accuride International; Acme Metals Inc.; 
Action Computer Products Sales Inc.; Air Industries Corp.; Air 
Logistics Corporation; Air Products and Chemicals, Inc.; AJ Daw 
Printing Ink Co.; Akzo Nobel Coatings; Alflex Corp.; Allan Hancock 
Joint Community College; Allergan Inc.; Alliant Foodservice, Inc.; Alma 
Pistons Co./Tomadur Engine Co.; Al's Plating Company Inc.; Alvord 
Unified School District; Alyeska Pipeline Service; American 
Broadcasting Company; American Honda Motor Co.; Ameron International 
Corp.; Amico West; Amtrak--National Railroad Passenger Corp; A.O. 
Smith; Angelus Sanitary Can Machine Co.; Anheuser-Busch Companies; 
Applied Power Inc.; Arcadia Unified School District; Armtec Defense 
Products; Ashland Specialty Chemical Company, a Division of Ashland 
Inc.; Asphalt Products Oil Corp.; Associates Insectary; Astech/MCI 
Manufacturing; Astro Pak Corporation; Atlas Galvanizing; Avery 
Dennison; Aviall Service Inc.; Baker Petrolite; Ball Corp.; Bandag 
Incorporated; Bank America; BASF Corp.; Basic Vegetable Products; 
Baxter Healthcare; Benjamin Moore & Co.; Bently Nevada Corp.; Berkshire 
Hathaway; Bethlehem Steel Corp.; Beylik Drilling Inc.; BFI Waste 
Systems of North America; BHP Coated Steel Corporation; Bio-Rad 
Laboratories; BMC Industries Inc.; BOC Gases; Borg-Warner Automotive, 
Inc. (including Borg-Warner Security Corporation, f/k/a Borg-Warner 
Corporation, n/k/a Burns

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International Services Corporation, and Flowserve Corporation, f/k/a 
BW/IP International, Inc.); Bregin, Inc.; Brown Pacific Inc.; Brush 
Wellman Inc.; Cabrillo Community College District; California Finished 
Metals; California Highway Patrol; California Institue of Technology; 
California Office of State Printing; California Regional Water Quality 
Control Board, North Coast Region; California State Compensation 
Insurance Fund; California Steel Industries; California Technical 
Plating Inc.; Camco International Inc.; Camsco Residential; Carrier 
Corp.; Case Corporation; Central Santa Clara County Regional; Ceradyne 
Inc.; Cerritos Community College; Chabot-Las Positas Community College 
District; Chaffey Community College District; Champion Technologies, 
Inc.; Charter Community Hospital; Chemron Corp.; CHW Central Coast-
Marian Hospital; CIPCO Inc.; Citrus Community College; City of Azusa; 
City of Carlsbad; City of Guadalupe; City of Monrovia; City of Mountain 
View; City of Norwalk; City of Richmond; City of Riverside; City of San 
Marino; City of Santa Paula; City of Sunnyvale; City of Thousand Oaks; 
City of Torrance; City of Vernon; Clougherty Packing Co.; CNF 
Transportation Inc.; Coast Community College District; Coca-Cola 
Enterprises; Coherent Incorporated; Cohu Inc. Electronics; Colonial 
Heights Packaging Inc., on behalf of Milprint and Bemis Company, Inc.; 
Cominer Corporation; Commonwealth Aluminum Concast, Inc.; Conejo 
Circuits Inc.; Consolidated Drum Reconditioning; Consolidated 
Fabricators Corp.; Construction Specialties (California), Inc.; 
Continental Materials Corp.; Contra Costa Community College District; 
Conway Oil Company; Cooper Industries; Cosmotronic Company; County of 
Contra Costa; County of Marin; County of Riverside; County of 
Sacramento; County of San Benito; County of San Joaquin; County of 
Santa Barbara; County of Santa Clara; County of Ventura; CoxCom Inc.; 
Crane Company (including Hydro Aire, Inc., Barksdale, Inc., and Pacific 
Valves); Crowley Maritime Corporation; Cubic Corp; Culligan Industrial 
Water Purification; Culligan International & Culligan Water 
Conditioning; Cytec Industries; D & S Industries; Daimler Chrysler; 
Decalta International; Delta Airlines; Deluxe Packages; Diagnostic 
Products; Diversey Corp. (n/k/a Raython Corp.); Don E. Keith 
Transportation; Downey Glass; Dunn Edwards Corporation; Dura-Bond 
Bearing Co./SKF USA, Inc.; E & T LLC; Eastman Kodak; Eaton Corporation; 
EDO Corporation; El Camino Community College; Electromatic Inc.; 
Electronic Plating Services; Elf Atochem North America Inc.; Elixir 
Industries Corp.; Embee Inc.; Emerson Electric Co.; Energy Factors Inc; 
Enthone OMI Inc.; Ernest Carlson; ESCO Electronics Corporation; Estate 
of Elfrida Hanchett and Hanchett Family Corp.; EXAR Corporation; Exide 
Corporation; Facet Energy (Gammaloy Ltd.); Fansteel Corp.; Far Best 
Corporation; Farr Co.; Fedco Inc.; Federal Bureau of Prisons; Federal 
Express Corporation; Federal Mogul; Federal Reserve Bank of San 
Francisco; Finegood Holdings Inc.; Fleetwood Enterprises Inc.; FMC 
Corp.; Foothill-DeAnza Community College District; Frazee Industries; 
Fremont Newark Community College District; GATX Corp.; Genentech Inc; 
Genlyte Thomas Group; George Industries; Gillette SMMC; Glendale 
Community College District; Glendale Development Corporation (f/k/a 
Glenfed Development Corporation); Goleta Union School District; Great 
Lakes Chemical Corp.; Great Spring Waters of America, Inc.; Great 
Western Chemical; Grossmont Cuyamaca Community College; H & H 
Paramount, Ltd.; Hanson Permanente Cement Inc.; Hartnell Community 
College District; Hawthorne/Stone Real Estate; Holmes Tuttle Ford Inc.; 
Hooker Industries; Hurst Chemical; ICN Pharmaceuticals Inc.; Industrial 
Wire Products Corp.; Ingersoll-Rand Company; Intel Corporation; 
Intermetro; International Extrusion Corporation; International Paint HD 
& Marine; International Paper Company; JASCO Chemical Corp.; Jensen 
General Contractors; Johns Manville International Inc.; Joslyn 
Manufacturing Corp.; J.R. Simplot Company; Julius L. Zelman Co.; Jurupa 
Unified School District; Kaiser Aerospace and Electronics Corporation; 
Kalex Chemical Products (including Ellay, Inc.); Kamei International 
Corp.; Kern Community College; Kern County; Kern Industries; Kimball 
International Inc.; Kinder Morgan Energy Partners; Kinsbursky Brothers 
Supply Inc.; Koch Industries; Koppers Industries (n/k/a Beazer East 
Inc.); Leggett & Platt, Incorporated (including Bedline Manufacturing, 
a division of Leggett & Platt Inc., and L & P Property Management 
Company dba L & P PMC, Inc.); Levin-Richmond Terminal Corp. (a/k/a 
Levin Enterprises Inc.); Lindberg Corporation; Lindberg Heat Treating 
Co. (including Industrial Steel Treating); Lodi Door-Overhead Door 
Corp.; Long Beach Community Medical Center; Long Beach Memorial 
Hospital; Long Beach Unified School District; Longview Fibre Company; 
Los Angeles Chemical Co.; Los Angeles Community College District; Los 
Angeles County Metropolitan Transit Authority; Los Angeles Galvanizing 
Co.; Los Angeles Office of Education (Long Beach Community College); 
Los Angeles Times, Division of Times Mirror; Los Rios Community College 
District; Lubeco Inc.; Magna Plating Co. Inc.; Mandalay Properties; 
Marin Community College District; Master Halco Inc.; Matheson Tri-Gas 
Inc., (f/k/a Matheson Gas Products); Matlack Inc.; Matson Navigation 
Co.; Mattel Inc.; Maytag Corp.; Mazda Motors of America; M.C. Gill 
Corporation; McKesson HBOC Inc.; McKesson Water Products Company; 
Mechanical Metal Finishing Co.; Merced Community College; Mercy 
Healthcare Sacramento; Mesa Center Automotive; Metal Container 
Corporation of California; Methodist Hospital of Arcadia; MGF 
Industries; Milard Group; Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing (including 
Imation Corporation); Mission Industries (f/k/a Mission Linen Supply); 
Mission Valley Ford Trucks; Modesto City Schools; Modine Manufacturing 
Company; Monrovia Unified School District; Montrose Chemical Corp.; 
Motorola Inc. Semiconductor; Mt. San Antonio Community College 
District; Mt. San Jacinto Community College District; Mountain View-Los 
Altos High School District; NAPP Systems Inc.; NASA Ames Research 
Center; NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory; National Steel and 
Shipbuilding; National Supply Company; Neville Chemical Co.; North 
Orange Community College District; Northwest Pipe Company (f/k/a 
Northwest Pipe and Casing); Norwalk-La Mirada Unified School District; 
O'Connor Hospital; Oakdale Memorial Park Inc.; Occidental Chemical 
Corporation (successor to Diamond Shamrock Chemicals Company); Ogden 
Food Products (including Ogden Corporation); Olin Corporation; Olocco 
Agricultural Services; ORC Technologies Inc. (f/k/a Optical Radiation 
Corporation); Osbourne United; OSCA Inc.; Oxnard Pest Control 
Association; PAC Foundry; Pacific Coast Drum Company; Pacific Refining; 
Pacific Tube Company; Palomar Community College District; Parker 
Hannifin Corp.; Pasadena Area Community College; Pennzoil-Quaker State 
Company (including PennzEnergy Exploration and Production, L.L.C.); 
Pentrate Metal Processing, Inc.; Petrolite Corporation; Pilot Chemical; 
Pioneer North America Inc. (including Pioneer Video Manufacturing Inc. 
and DiscoVision Associates); Plastic Materials Inc.; Pool California 
Energy Services; Pool Energy Services; Port of

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San Diego; Poway Unified School District; PQ Corp.; PRC-DeSoto 
International Inc.; Prime Alloy Steel Castings; Primex Technologies 
Inc.; Printronix; Products Engineering Corp.; Prudential General Real 
Estate; Prudential Lighting Corporation; Public Storage Inc.; Ralston 
Purina Company; Rancho Santiago Community College District; Revlon 
Inc.; Rheem Manufacturing Co.; Riverside Cement Co.; Riverside 
Community Hopsital; Riverside Superintendent of Schools; Riverside 
Unified School District; Rogers Corporation; RR Donnelley & Sons; 
Sacramento County Sanitation District 1; Sacramento Municipal Utilities 
District; Sage Energy Company; San Bernadino Community College 
District; San Diego Community College District; Sandia National 
Laboratory; San Diego Metropolitan Transit Development Board; San 
Francisco Community College; San Joaquin Refining; San Jose Evergreen 
Community College District; San Luis Obispo County Community College 
District; Santa Barbara Community College District; Santa Clara County 
Transit; Santa Monica Community College District; Sanyo E & E Corp.; 
Schmid Insulation Contractors, Inc.; Scripps Clinic and Research 
Foundation; Sears, Roebuck & Co.; Sequa Corporation; Shasta-Tehama-
Trinity Community College District; Siebe Inc.; Sierracin Corp.; Sigma 
Circuits Inc.; Sigma Plating Co., Inc.; Signetics Corp.; Siliconix, 
Inc.; Smith International; Sonoma County Community College District; 
Sony Technology; Soule Steel--Arnon Liquidating Agency; South Orange 
Community College District; Spectra-Physics Lasers, Inc.; SRI 
International; ST & I; Standex International Corp.; Stanford 
University; State Center Community College District; Steelcase, Inc.; 
Stepan Company; STI Properties Inc. c/o Hemisphere Corporation; St. 
Mary's Medical Center; Sunnyvale School District; Superior Industries 
International Inc.; Supra Alloys Inc.; Taormina Industries; Technicolor 
Film Service; Ted Levine Drum Co.; Tesoro Petroleum Companies; Texas 
Instruments; The Archdiocese of Los Angeles; The Bekins Company; The 
Interlake Corporation; The Marmon Corporation; The Mead Corporation; 
The Okonite Co.; The Valspar Corp.; Three Bond International Inc.; Time 
Warner Inc.; Torrance Unified School District; Transtechnology Corp.; 
Treasure Chest Advertising; Tree Island Industries Ltd.; Tricast, Inc.; 
Tri Valley Growers; Tucson Electric Power Co.; TWA Airlines; Tyco 
Printed Circuit Group; Union Bank of California; Union Carbide; United 
Air Lines; United States Sales Corporation; University of Southern 
California; US Army; US Borax; US Border Patrol; US Bureau of Indian 
Affairs; US Bureau of Land Management; US Bureau of Reclamation; US 
Customs Service; US Department of Agriculture; US Department of 
Defense; US Department of Energy; US Department of Health and Human 
Services; US Department of Immigration and Naturalization Services; US 
Department of Transportation/FAA; US Drug Enforcement Administration; 
US Federal Bureau of Investigation; US Fish and Wildlife Service; US 
General Services Administration; US Geological Survey; US Marshall 
Service; US Mint; US Park Service; US Small Business Administration; 
Ventura County Community College District; Verdugo Hill Golf Course; 
Vesper Corp.; Virco Manufacturing Corp.; VWR Corporation; WAISCO 
(Marwais Steel Co.); Walt Disney Co.; Walt Disney Pictures & 
Television; Watkins-Johnson Co.; Weber Metals Inc.; West Valley-Mission 
Community College District; Western Fuel Oil Company; Western Tube & 
Conduit Corp.; Westminster Ceramics, Inc.; Wheaton USA Inc.; Xerox 
Corporation; Yosemite Community College District; Zero Corporation.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Karen Goldberg, Assistant Regional 
Counsel, U.S. EPA Region IX (ORC-3), 75 Hawthorne Street, San 
Francisco, CA 94105-3901; E-Mail: [email protected]; Tel: (415) 
744-1382.

    Dated: March 8, 2000.
Julie Anderson,
Director, Waste Management Division, Region IX.
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