[Federal Register Volume 71, Number 150 (Friday, August 4, 2006)]
[Notices]
[Page 44291]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E6-12624]


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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

[FRL-8205-9]


Proposed CERCLA Administrative Cost Recovery Settlement; 
Industrial Chrome Plating, Incorporated

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), notice is hereby given of a proposed 
administrative settlement for recovery of past response costs 
concerning the Industrial Chrome Plating Time-Critical Removal Site in 
Portland, Oregon with the following settling party: Industrial Chrome 
Plating, Incorporated (ICP). The settlement requires the settling party 
to pay $66,000.00 to the Hazardous Substance Superfund. The settlement 
includes a covenant not to sue the settling party pursuant to Section 
107(a) of CERCLA, 42 U.S.C. 9607(a). For thirty (30) days following the 
date of publication of this notice, the Agency will receive written 
comments relating to the settlement. The Agency will consider all 
comments received 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 for 
public inspection at the U.S. EPA Region 10 offices, located at 1200 
Sixth Avenue, Seattle, Washington 98101.

DATES: Comments must be submitted on or before September 5, 2006.

ADDRESSES: The proposed settlement is available for public inspection 
at the U.S. EPA Region 10 offices, located at 1200 Sixth Avenue, 
Seattle, Washington 98101. A copy of the proposed settlement may be 
obtained from Carol Kennedy, Regional Hearing Clerk, U.S. EPA Region 
10, 1200 Sixth Avenue, Mail Stop ORC-158, Seattle, Washington 98101; 
(206) 553-0242. Comments should reference the Industrial Chrome Plating 
Time-Critical Removal Site in Portland, Oregon and EPA Docket No. 
CERCLA-10-2006-0035 and should be addressed to Dean Ingemansen, 
Assistant Regional Counsel, U.S. EPA Region 10, Mail Stop ORC-158, 1200 
Sixth Avenue, Seattle, Washington 98101.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Dean Ingemansen, Assistant Regional 
Counsel, U.S. EPA Region 10, Mail Stop ORC-158, 1200 Sixth Avenue, 
Seattle, Washington 98101; (206) 553-1744.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The ICP Site, a former chrome plating 
facility, is located in a predominantly residential neighborhood on the 
southeast corner of NE 62nd Avenue and NE Hassalo Street in Portland, 
Oregon. In July 2001, EPA was requested by the Oregon Department of 
Environmental Quality (ODEQ) to conduct a time-critical removal action 
at the Site due to evidence of chrome plating wastes having leaked onto 
the ground and into the subsurface at the Site. When EPA began the 
removal action on August 27, 2001, there were chromium and lead-
contaminated soils, plating wastes, and other hazardous substances at 
the Site. In order to get at the subsurface contamination, the 
buildings at the Site had to be torn down. Removal of the ICP building, 
liquid wastes, and soils was completed at the end of November 2001. 
Soils were excavated to a maximum depth of 20 feet below grade. 
Approximately 4,000 gallons of chromic acid was pumped from on-site dip 
tanks and holding tanks to a tanker truck and delivered to Burlington 
Environmental in Kent, Washington, for proper disposal. Another 100 
gallons and 500 pounds of hazardous substances including paint wastes, 
corrosive liquids, mercury, and PCB wastes were packed and transported 
to Philip Services, Incorporated, in Washington state. The excavation 
resulted in 4,718 tons of hazardous wastes shipped to U.S. Ecology in 
Grand View, Idaho, and 1,098 tons of special waste delivered to the 
Waste Management Hillsboro, Oregon, landfill. A protective asphalt cap 
was placed over the entire Site to prevent surface water infiltration. 
The settlement requires payment of $66,000.00, an amount equal to the 
fair market value of the real property owned by ICP, which is the only 
asset of ICP, a defunct Oregon corporation. ICP has proposed to sell 
this property in order to pay the settlement amount. In addition, the 
settlement requires (and ICP has already placed) a deed notice on the 
title to the Site property. This deed notice notifies all owners of 
this property of the need to maintain the integrity of the asphalt cap, 
and of the need to contact the ODEQ if the property owner decides to 
build on the Site or otherwise puncture or destroy the asphalt cap. 
ODEQ has issued a conditional ``No Further Action'' letter for the Site 
conditioned upon, among other things, the property owner maintaining 
the integrity of the cap.

    Dated: July 28, 2006.
Ron Kreizenbeck,
Acting Regional Administrator, Region 10.
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