[Federal Register Volume 82, Number 152 (Wednesday, August 9, 2017)]
[Notices]
[Page 37211]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2017-16813]


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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

[EPA-R09-SFUND-2017-01; FRL-9965-95-Region 9]


MEW Superfund Area, Mountain View, CA; Notice of Proposed 
Settlement Agreement and Order on Consent for Certain Response Action 
Activities by Bona Fide Prospective Purchaser

AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

ACTION: Notice of proposed settlement.

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SUMMARY: This notice announces the availability for review and comment 
of a proposed administrative settlement agreement under the 
Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act 
of 1980, as amended (``CERCLA''), between the U.S. Environmental 
Protection Agency (``EPA''), and Warmington Fairchild Associates LLC 
(``Warmingotn''), regarding the Middlefield-Ellis-Whisman (MEW) 
Superfund Area in Mountain View, California. Under this Settlement 
Agreement, Warmington agrees to perform certain response action 
activities at the property located at 277 Fairchild Drive and 228 and 
236 Evandale Avenue, in Mountain View, California.

DATES: Comments must be received on or before September 8, 2017.

ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, identified by Docket ID No. EPA-R09-
SFUND-2017-01, to the Federal eRulemaking Portal: http://www.regulations.gov. Follow the online instructions for submitting 
comments. Once submitted, comments cannot be edited or withdrawn. EPA 
may publish any comment received to its public docket. Do not submit 
electronically any information you consider to be Confidential Business 
Information (``CBI'') or other information whose disclosure is 
restricted by statute. Multimedia submissions (audio, video, etc.) must 
be accompanied by a written comment. The written comment is considered 
the official comment and should include discussion of all points you 
wish to make. EPA will generally not consider comments or comment 
contents located outside of the primary submission (i.e., on the web, 
cloud, or other file sharing system). For additional submission 
methods, the full EPA public comment policy, information about CBI or 
multimedia submissions, and general guidance on making effective 
comments, please visit http://www2.epa.gov/dockets/commenting-epa-dockets.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Bethany Dreyfus, Assistant Regional 
Counsel, Office of Regional Counsel (ORC-3), U.S. Environmental 
Protection Agency, Region 9, 75 Hawthorne Street, San Francisco, CA 
94105; tel: (415) 972-3886; fax: (415) 947-3570; 
[email protected].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Under the terms of the settlement, 
Warmington agrees to implement the Response Action Plan, dated June 30, 
2017, intended to lower ``hot spot'' area trichloroethene (TCE) 
contaminant concentrations in the soil gas and groundwater. The 
Response Action Plan provides for reduction of ``hot spot'' 
contamination to reduce potential risks to human health from exposure 
to TCE through the subsurface vapor intrusion pathway prior to 
construction of residential units in those areas. Warmington agrees to 
pay EPA's costs for oversight of the response action activities. In 
exchange, Warmington will receive a covenant not to sue from the United 
States. EPA will consider all comments submitted by the date set forth 
above and may modify or withdraw its consent to the settlement if 
comments received disclose facts or considerations that indicate the 
proposed settlement is inappropriate, improper, or inadequate.

    Dated: July 28, 2017.
Enrique Manzanilla,
Director, Superfund Division, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, 
Region 9.
[FR Doc. 2017-16813 Filed 8-8-17; 8:45 am]
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