[Federal Register Volume 75, Number 116 (Thursday, June 17, 2010)]
[Notices]
[Pages 34448-34449]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2010-14651]


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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

[FRL-9163-8]


Proposed CERCLA Administrative Cost Recovery Settlement; Great 
Lakes Container Corporation Superfund Site, Coventry Rhode Island

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 and future response 
costs concerning the Great Lakes Container Corporation Superfund Site, 
located in Coventry Rhode Island with the settling parties listed below 
under the heading ``Supplementary Information.'' The settlement 
requires the settling parties to pay $200,000 to the Hazardous 
Substance Superfund. The settlement also requires the settling parties 
to perform a removal action to address hazardous substances at the 
Site, and to pay the Agency all of its oversight and other response 
costs related to the removal action. The settlement includes a covenant 
not to sue the settling parties pursuant to Section 106 of CERCLA, 42 
U.S.C. 9606, and 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 for 
recovery of response costs (Section XV of the proposed settlement). The 
Agency will consider all comments received and may modify or withdraw 
its consent to this cost recovery 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 
Coventry Public Library, 1672 Flat River Road, Coventry, RI 02816 and 
at the Environmental Protection Agency--Region I, 5 Post Office 
Square--Suite 100, Boston, MA 02109-3912.

DATES: Comments must be submitted on or before July 19, 2010.

ADDRESSES: The proposed settlement is available for public inspection 
at the Environmental Protection Agency--Region I, 5 Post Office 
Square--Suite 100, Boston, MA 02109-3912. A copy of the proposed 
settlement may be obtained from Tina Hennessy, Office of Site 
Remediation and Restoration, Environmental Protection Agency--Region I, 
5 Post Office Square--Suite 100 (OSRR02-2), Boston, MA 02109-3912, 
(617) 918-1216. Comments should reference the Great Lakes Container 
Corporation Superfund Site, Coventry, Rhode Island and EPA CERCLA 
Docket No. 01-2009-0010 and should be addressed to Regional Hearing 
Clerk, Environmental Protection Agency--Region I, 5 Post Office 
Square--Suite 100 (ORA18-1), Boston, MA 02109-3912.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For legal questions, John Hultgren, 
Office of

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Environmental Stewardship, Environmental Protection Agency--Region I, 5 
Post Office Square--Suite 100 (OES04-2), Boston, MA 02109-3912, (617) 
918-1761; for technical questions, Tina Hennessy, Office of Site 
Remediation and Restoration, Environmental Protection Agency--Region I, 
5 Post Office Square--Suite 100 (OSRR02-2), Boston, MA 02109-3912, 
(617) 918-1216.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The settling parties to this administrative 
settlement include: Akzo Nobel Coatings, Inc., as successor to Nubrite 
Chemical Co; Zeneca, Inc. (f/k/a I.C.I. Americas, Inc.); Avnet, Inc.; 
CNA Holdings, Inc. now known as CNA Holdings LLC (f/k/a American 
Hoechst); Cooley, Inc.; Development Associates, Inc.; Drake Petroleum 
Company, Inc. (f/k/a Warren Oil Co.); Exxon Mobil Corporation; Electric 
Boat Corporation; John H. Collins & Sons Company; John R. Hess & 
Company (f/k/a John R. Hess & Sons, Inc.); Mallinckrodt, LLC, a 
Delaware limited liability company (f/k/a Mallinckrodt, Inc., a New 
York corporation) on behalf of Great Lakes Container Corporation and 
Kingston Steel Drum; National Grid; Northeast Products Co., Inc.; Shell 
Oil Company; Greenhill, Inc. (f/k/a Soluol, Inc.); Sunoco, Inc. (R&M); 
Uniroyal Holding, Inc. (successor to certain limited liabilities of 
Uniroyal, Inc.); Cytec Industries Inc. (on behalf of American Cyanamid 
Company); Hubbard Hall, Inc.; Invesys, Inc. on behalf of Elmwood 
Sensors, Inc.; Chevron Environmental Management Company, for itself and 
on behalf of Texaco Inc. and Union Oil Company of California; Ross & 
Roberts; Whittaker Corporation, on behalf of itself and its present and 
former affiliates, subsidiaries and divisions; BP Products North 
America, Inc.; Eastern Color & Chemical Company.

    Dated: June 3, 2010.
Richard Cavagnero,
Acting Director, Office of Site Remediation and Restoration, EPA Region 
I.
[FR Doc. 2010-14651 Filed 6-16-10; 8:45 am]
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