Notice2023-01974
Notice of Proposed Administrative Settlement Agreement for Recovery of Past Response Costs at the Logan Street Mercury Response Site in Ada County, Idaho
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Published
January 31, 2023
Issuing agencies
Environmental Protection Agency
Abstract
In accordance with the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980, as amended (CERCLA), notice is hereby given that the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has entered into a proposed settlement, embodied in an Administrative Settlement Agreement for Recovery of Past Response Costs (Settlement Agreement), with the following settling party: Jones Family Trust. Under the Settlement Agreement, the settling party agrees to pay a total of $150,000 plus interest to reimburse the EPA for costs the EPA has incurred at the Logan Street Mercury Response Site (Site).
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[Federal Register Volume 88, Number 20 (Tuesday, January 31, 2023)]
[Notices]
[Pages 6257-6258]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2023-01974]
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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
[CERCLA-10-2022-0251; FRL-10531-01-Region 10]
Notice of Proposed Administrative Settlement Agreement for
Recovery of Past Response Costs at the Logan Street Mercury Response
Site in Ada County, Idaho
AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
ACTION: Notice of proposed settlement; request for public comment.
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SUMMARY: In accordance with the Comprehensive Environmental Response,
Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980, as amended (CERCLA), notice is
hereby given that the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has entered
into a proposed settlement, embodied in an Administrative Settlement
Agreement for Recovery of Past Response Costs (Settlement Agreement),
with the following settling party: Jones Family Trust. Under the
Settlement Agreement, the settling party agrees to pay a total of
$150,000 plus interest to reimburse the EPA for costs the EPA has
incurred at the Logan Street Mercury Response Site (Site).
DATES: Comments must be received on or before March 2, 2023.
ADDRESSES: You may send comments, identified by the EPA Docket Number
for the Settlement Agreement, CERCLA-10-2022-0251, by any of the
following methods: Federal eRulemaking Portal: <a href="https://www.regulations.gov">https://www.regulations.gov</a> (our preferred method). Follow the online
instructions for submitting comments. Email: Ms. Christina Vieira da
Rosa, <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#f4a29d919d8695b095a69b8795dab79c869d87809d9a95b4918495da939b82"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="32645b575b40537653605d41531c715a405b41465b5c53725742531c555d44">[email protected]</span></a>. Mail: EPA Region 10, ATTN:
Christina Vieira da Rosa, Assistant Regional Counsel, Office of
Regional Counsel, 1200 Sixth Avenue, Suite 155, M/S: 11-C07, Seattle,
WA 98101.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Christina Vieira da Rosa, Assistant
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Regional Counsel, EPA Region 10, 1200 Sixth Avenue, Suite 155, M/S: 11-
C07, Seattle, WA 98101; Email: <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#46102f232f342702271429352768052e342f35322f28270623362768212930"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="015768646873604560536e72602f426973687275686f60416471602f666e77">[email protected]</span></a>; Phone
(206) 553-2601.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Written Comments
Submit your comments, identified by the EPA Docket Number for the
Settlement Agreement, CERCLA-10-2022-0251, at <a href="https://www.regulations.gov">https://www.regulations.gov</a> (our preferred method), or the other methods
identified in the ADDRESSES section. Once submitted, comments cannot be
edited or removed from the docket. The EPA may publish any comment
received to its public docket. Do not submit electronically any
information you consider to be Confidential Business Information 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. The 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 Confidential Business Information or
multimedia submissions, and general guidance on making effective
comments, please visit <a href="https://www.epa.gov/dockets/commenting-epa-dockets">https://www.epa.gov/dockets/commenting-epa-dockets</a>.
Background Information
Notice of this proposed Settlement Agreement is made in accordance
with Section 122(i) of CERCLA, 42 U.S.C. 9622(i). The Settlement
Agreement concerns costs incurred by the EPA in connection with the
Logan Street Mercury Response Site, a CERCLA response action in Ada
County, Idaho, where mercury contamination has come to be located.
Jones Family Trust, which agrees to pay the EPA a total of $150,000,
plus interest, is the only party to the Settlement Agreement. Because
the EPA is not recovering one hundred percent of its past costs, this
Settlement Agreement represents a compromise of the EPA's costs. The
settlement 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).
The EPA will consider all comments received on the Settlement
Agreement in accordance with the DATES and ADDRESSES sections of this
Notice and may modify or withdraw its consent to the Settlement
Agreement if comments received disclose facts or considerations that
indicate that the settlement is inappropriate, improper, or inadequate.
The EPA's response to any comments received will be available for
public inspection at: <a href="https://semspub.epa.gov/src/collections/10/AR/IDN001020504">https://semspub.epa.gov/src/collections/10/AR/IDN001020504</a>.
Authority: 42 U.S.C. 9601-9657.
Sheila Fleming,
Acting Director, Superfund and Emergency Management Division, Region
10.
[FR Doc. 2023-01974 Filed 1-30-23; 8:45 am]
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