[Federal Register Volume 75, Number 36 (Wednesday, February 24, 2010)]
[Notices]
[Pages 8346-8347]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2010-3681]


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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

[ FRL-9117-1]


Proposed CERCLA Administrative Settlement; Anderson-Calhoun Mine 
and Mill Site, Leadpoint, WA

AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

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 costs associated with a removal action at 
the Anderson-Calhoun Mine and Mill Site in Leadpoint, Washington, with 
settling party Blue Tee Corporation. The settlement requires the 
settling party to pay $1,362,800 to cover the estimated cost of the 
selected removal action, and to conduct all future post-removal site 
control including maintenance and repair of the removal action. The 
settlement includes a covenant not to sue or take administrative action 
against the settling party pursuant to Sections 106 or 107(a) of 
CERCLA, 42 U.S.C. 9606 or 9607(a), for recovery of past costs and for 
the performance of the selected removal action. 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 during the thirty day period, 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 March 26, 2010.

ADDRESSES: The proposed settlement is available for public inspection 
at the

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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, Mail 
Stop ORC-158, 1200 Sixth Avenue, Suite 900, Seattle, Washington 98101; 
(206) 553-0242. Comments should reference the Anderson-Calhoun Mine and 
Mill Site in Leadpoint, Washington, EPA Docket No. CERCLA-10-2010-0105 
and should be addressed to Alexander Fidis, Assistant Regional Counsel, 
U.S. EPA Region 10, Mail Stop ORC-158, 1200 Sixth Avenue, Suite 900, 
Seattle, Washington 98101.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Alexander Fidis, Assistant Regional 
Counsel, U.S. EPA Region 10, Mail Stop ORC-158, 1200 Sixth Avenue, 
Suite 900, Seattle, Washington 98101; (206) 553-4710.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The Anderson-Calhoun Mine and Mill Site 
(Site) is located in Leadpoint, Stevens County, Washington. Site 
operations conducted between 1910 and the early 1980s included the 
mining and milling of lead-zinc ore, and the milling of barite ore. 
Waste-rock and mill tailings produced by these operations were disposed 
of at the Site in a raised tailings impoundment and at areas around the 
mill building. Waste-rock and tailings at the Site contain hazardous 
substances including barium, cadmium, copper, lead, selenium and zinc 
at concentrations that exceed applicable cleanup levels. The Agency has 
selected a removal action to address potential or actual threats that 
these substances may present to public health, welfare, or the 
environment.
    The settling party is one of three parties that together spent 
approximately $660,000 to investigate and study the Site, assess 
cleanup alternatives, and to develop an Engineering Evaluation and Cost 
Analysis that formed the basis for the selection of the removal action. 
The Agency entered into a settlement agreement with the other two 
parties, Docket Number CERCLA-10-2009-0195, for $357,000, which was 
deposited in a site-specific account. Under the proposed agreement, the 
settling party will pay $1,362,800 to the site-specific account to 
cover the remaining estimated costs of the removal action. The settling 
party will also conduct all future post-removal site control as 
described in a finalized maintenance and repair plan. The proposed 
settlement will provide the settling party with a covenant not to sue 
or take administrative action, subject to a reservation of certain 
rights, for recovery past response costs and for the performance of the 
selected removal action.

    Dated: Feburary 16, 2010.
Linda Anderson-Carnahan,
Acting Director, Office of Environmental Cleanup.
[FR Doc. 2010-3681 Filed 2-23-10; 8:45 am]
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