[Federal Register Volume 69, Number 89 (Friday, May 7, 2004)]
[Notices]
[Page 25578]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 04-10457]


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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

[FRL-7657-1]


Notice of Proposed Administrative Order on Consent Pursuant to 
Section 122(g)(4) of the Comprehensive Environmental Response 
Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA), PCB Treatment, Inc. Superfund 
Site, Kansas City, KS, and Kansas City, MO, Docket No. 07-2004-0023

AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency.

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: Notice is hereby given that a proposed administrative order on 
consent between six potentially responsible parties (Respondents) at 
the PCB Treatment, Inc. Superfund Site (Site) and the United States 
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) was signed by the EPA on January 
21, 2004, and approved by the United States Department of Justice (DOJ) 
on April 14, 2004. The Respondents are: District of Columbia/Blue 
Plains Waste Water Treatment, East Point Electric, Flowserv 
Corporation, Newberry Water and Light, St. Rose Convent, and Tilton 
Terrace.

DATES: EPA will receive, for a period of thirty (30) days from the date 
of this publication, comments relating to the proposed agreement.

ADDRESSES: Comments should be addressed to Audrey Asher, Senior 
Assistant Regional Counsel, United States Environmental Protection 
Agency, Region VII, 901 N. Fifth Street, Kansas City, Kansas 66101 and 
should refer to the PCB Treatment, Inc. Superfund Site Administrative 
Order on Consent, CERCLA Docket No. 07-2004-0023.
    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, 901 North Fifth Street, Kansas City, KS 66101 (913) 
551-7255.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The Site consists of two facilities, about 
two miles apart, located in the industrial areas of Kansas City, Kansas 
at 45 Ewing Street and Kansas City, Missouri at 2100 Wyandotte Street. 
The facilities were formerly operated by PCB Treatment, Inc., now a 
defunct corporation. Between 1982 and 1987, PCB Treatment, Inc. and its 
subsidiaries or affiliates treated and stored PCBs contained in used 
transformers, capacitors, oil, equipment, and other materials at the 
Wyandotte facility and the Ewing facility. During its period of 
operations, spills of PCB contaminated waste occurred.
    Samples collected at the Site in the late 1990s indicated that the 
PCB contamination at Ewing Street exceeded 1,790 parts per million 
(ppm) in the building and 1,450 ppm in the soils. At Wyandotte Street, 
the PCB contamination exceeded 23,800 ppm in the building and 800 ppm 
in the soils.
    Over 1000 parties arranged for disposal of PCB wastes at the Site. 
EPA identified a large number of these parties, including the 
Respondents, as de minimis parties. EPA offered settlements to the de 
minimis parties based on their allocated share of the waste plus a 
premium. EPA previously settled with 542 de minimis parties. Through 
this settlement, and subject to certain reopeners, EPA covenants not to 
sue Respondents for injunctive relief or response costs concerning the 
Site. In addition, Respondents receive contribution protection for 
matters addressed in the settlement.
    Settlement funds received through this proposed administrative 
order on consent, totaling $301,969.53, will be placed in the special 
account for the Site, with the other de minimis settlement funds, and 
used, primarily, to pay for cleanup of the Site.

    Dated: April 21, 2004.
Mark Hague,
Acting Regional Administrator, United States Environmental Protection 
Agency, Region VII.
[FR Doc. 04-10457 Filed 5-6-04; 8:45 am]
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