[Federal Register Volume 85, Number 202 (Monday, October 19, 2020)]
[Notices]
[Pages 66328-66329]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2020-23036]
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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
[CERCLA-10-2020-0141; FRL-10015-33-Region 10]
Proposed CERCLA Prospective Purchaser Agreement; TriStar North
Inc. Former Kaiser Smelter Site, Mead, Washington
AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
ACTION: Notice; request for public comment.
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SUMMARY: In accordance with of the Comprehensive Environmental
Response, Compensation, and Liability Act, as amended (``CERCLA''),
notice is hereby given of a proposed prospective purchaser agreement
concerning the Former Kaiser Smelter Site, Mead, Washington, with the
following settling party: TriStar North, Inc. The agreement requires
the settling party to provide full cooperation with the Environmental
Protection Agency's (EPA) cleanup activities, provide access to the
property, and exercise appropriate care with regard to existing
contamination, in addition to making a payment of $50,000 to EPA. For
thirty (30) days following the date of publication of this document,
the Agency will receive written comments relating to the agreement. The
Agency will consider all comments and may modify or withdraw its
consent to the agreement if comments received disclose facts or
considerations which indicate that the agreement is inappropriate,
improper, or inadequate. The Agency's response to any comments received
will be available electronically for public inspection at https://www.regulations.gov.
DATES: Comments must be submitted on or before November 18, 2020.
ADDRESSES: The proposed agreement is available electronically for
public inspection at https://semspub.epa.gov/src/collection/10/SC39959.
Submit your comments, identified by EPA Docket No. CERCLA-10-2020-0141,
by one of the following methods:
https://www.regulations.gov. Follow on-line instructions
for submitting comments. Once submitted, comments cannot be edited or
removed from Regulations.gov. 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 https://www2.epa.gov/dockets/commenting-epa-dockets.
Email: Brooks Stanfield, Federal On-SceneCoordinator, at
[email protected].
Written comments submitted by mail are temporarily
suspended, and no hand deliveries will be accepted. We encourage the
public to submit comments via https://www.regulations.gov.
Instructions: Direct your comments to EPA Docket No. CERCLA-10-
2020-0141. EPA's policy is that all comments received will be included
in the public docket without change and may be made available online at
https://www.regulations.gov, including any personal information
provided, unless the comment includes information claimed to be CBI or
other information whose disclosure is restricted by statute. Do not
submit information that you consider to be CBI or otherwise protected
through https://www.regulations.gov or email. The https://www.regulations.gov website is an ``anonymous access'' system, which
means EPA will not know your identity or contact information unless you
provide it in the body of your comment. If you send an email comment
directly to EPA without going through https://www.regulations.gov, your
email address will be automatically captured and included as part of
the comment that is placed in the public docket and made available on
the internet. If you submit an electronic comment, EPA recommends that
you include your name and other contact information in the body of your
comment and with any disk or CD-ROM you submit. If EPA cannot read your
comment due to technical difficulties and cannot contact you for
clarification, EPA may not be able to consider your comment. Electronic
files should avoid the use of special characters, any form of
encryption, and be free of any defects or viruses.
Docket: All documents in the docket are listed in the https://semspub.epa.gov/src/collections/10/AR/WAN001020091 index. Although
listed in the index, some information is not publicly available, e.g.,
CBI or other information whose disclosure is restricted by statute.
Certain other material, such as copyrighted material, will be publicly
available only in the hard copy. Publicly available docket materials
are available electronically in https://semspub.epa.gov/src/collections/10/AR/WAN001020091.
EPA is temporarily suspending its Docket Center and Regional
Records Centers for public visitors to reduce the risk of transmitting
COVID-19. In addition, many site information repositories are closed,
and information
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in these repositories, including the deletion docket, has not been
updated with hardcopy or electronic media. For further information and
updates on EPA Docket Center services, please visit us online at
https://www.epa.gov/dockets.
EPA continues to carefully and continuously monitor information
from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), local area
health departments, and our Federal partners so that we can respond
rapidly as conditions change regarding COVID.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Brooks Stanfield, Federal On-Scene
Coordinator, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Region 10, 1200
Sixth Avenue, Suite 155, 13-J07, Seattle, WA 98101, (206) 553-4432,
email: [email protected]; and/or Kristin Leefers, Assistant
Regional Counsel, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Region 10, 1200
Sixth Avenue, Suite 155, M/S: 11-C07, Seattle, WA 98101, (206) 553-
1532, email: [email protected].
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This agreement is entered into pursuant to
the authority of the Attorney General to compromise and settle claims
of the United States, consistent with CERCLA, 42 U.S.C. 9601-9675. The
agreement requires the settling party to provide full cooperation with
EPA's cleanup activities, provide access to the property, and exercise
appropriate care with regard to existing contamination, in addition to
making a payment of $50,000 to EPA. The agreement also includes a
covenant not to sue the settling party pursuant to sections 106 and
107(a) of CERCLA, 42 U.S.C. 9606 and 9607(a).
Authority: 42 U.S.C. 9601-9657.
Dated: October 13, 2020.
Calvin Terada,
Division Director, Superfund and Emergency Management Division, Region
10.
[FR Doc. 2020-23036 Filed 10-16-20; 8:45 am]
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