Notice2023-20934
Notice of Proposed Administrative Settlement Agreement for Recovery of Past Response Costs for the Klamath Falls Motel Mercury Spill Response Site, Klamath County, Oregon
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Published
September 26, 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: Sugar Pine Hotel, Inc. Under the Settlement Agreement, the settling party agrees to pay a total of $44,192 plus interest to reimburse the EPA for costs the EPA has incurred at the Klamath Falls Motel Mercury Spill Response Site (Site).
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[Federal Register Volume 88, Number 185 (Tuesday, September 26, 2023)]
[Notices]
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From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2023-20934]
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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
[CERCLA-10-2023-0121; FRL-11364-01-R10]
Notice of Proposed Administrative Settlement Agreement for
Recovery of Past Response Costs for the Klamath Falls Motel Mercury
Spill Response Site, Klamath County, Oregon
AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency.
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: Sugar Pine Hotel, Inc. Under the
Settlement Agreement, the settling party agrees to pay a total of
$44,192 plus interest to reimburse the EPA for costs the EPA has
incurred at the Klamath Falls Motel Mercury Spill Response Site (Site).
DATES: Comments must be received on or before October 26, 2023.
ADDRESSES: You may send comments, identified by the EPA Docket Number
for the Settlement Agreement, CERCLA-10-2023-0121, 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#1b4d727e72697a5f7a4974687a3558736972686f72757a5b7e6b7a357c746d"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="4a1c232f23382b0e2b1825392b6409223823393e23242b0a2f3a2b642d253c">[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
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#d98fb0bcb0abb89db88bb6aab8f79ab1abb0aaadb0b7b899bca9b8f7beb6af"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="47112e222e352603261528342669042f352e34332e29260722372669202831">[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-10-2023-0121, 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
Klamath Falls Motel Mercury Spill Response Site (Site) a CERCLA
response action in Klamath County, Oregon, where mercury contamination
has come to be located. Sugar Pine Hotel, Inc., which agrees to pay the
EPA a total of $44,192, 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/collection/10/AR66854">https://semspub.epa.gov/src/collection/10/AR66854</a>.
Authority: 42 U.S.C. 9601-9657.
Calvin Terada,
Director, Superfund and Emergency Management Division, Region 10.
[FR Doc. 2023-20934 Filed 9-25-23; 8:45 am]
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