[Federal Register Volume 81, Number 72 (Thursday, April 14, 2016)]
[Notices]
[Page 22080]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2016-08627]


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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

[FRL-9944-99-Region 9]


Yosemite Slough Site, San Francisco, California; Notice of 
Proposed CERCLA Ability To Pay Settlement

AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

ACTION: Notice; request for comment.

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SUMMARY: In accordance with section 122(i) of the Comprehensive 
Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act of 1980, as 
amended (CERCLA), 42 U.S.C. 9622(i), notice is hereby given of a 
proposed administrative settlement with one ability to pay party for 
recovery of response costs concerning the Yosemite Slough Site in San 
Francisco, California. The settlement is entered into pursuant to 
Section 122(h)(1) of CERCLA, 42 U.S.C. 9622(h)(1), and it requires the 
settling party to pay $193,000 to the United States Environmental 
Protection Agency (Agency). The settlement includes a covenant not to 
sue the settling party pursuant to Sections 106 or 107(a) of CERCLA, 42 
U.S.C. 9606 or 9607(a). For thirty (30) days following the date of 
publication of this Notice in the Federal Register, 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 the proposed settlement is inappropriate, improper, or 
inadequate. The Agency's response to any comments received will be 
available for public inspection at 75 Hawthorne Street, San Francisco, 
CA 94105.

DATES: Pursuant to section 122(i) of CERCLA, EPA will receive written 
comments relating to this proposed settlement on or before May 16, 
2016.

ADDRESSES: The proposed settlement is available for public inspection 
at EPA Region IX, 75 Hawthorne Street, San Francisco, California. A 
copy of the proposed settlement may be obtained from Rachel Tennis, 
Assistant Regional Counsel (ORC-3), U.S. EPA Region IX, 75 Hawthorne 
Street, San Francisco, CA 94105; phone: (415) 972-3746. Comments should 
reference the Yosemite Slough Site, San Francisco, California and 
should be addressed to Rachel Tennis at the above address.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Rachel Tennis, Assistant Regional 
Counsel (ORC-3), U.S. EPA Region IX, 75 Hawthorne Street, San 
Francisco, CA 94105; phone: (415) 972-3746; fax: (417) 947-3570; email: 
[email protected].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Party to the Proposed Settlement: 
Development Specialists, Inc., solely in its capacity as assignee for 
the benefit of creditors of Romic Environmental Technologies.

    Dated: March 17, 2016.
Enrique Manzanilla,
Director, Superfund Division, U.S. EPA, Region IX.
[FR Doc. 2016-08627 Filed 4-13-16; 8:45 am]
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