[Federal Register Volume 83, Number 25 (Tuesday, February 6, 2018)]
[Notices]
[Page 5260]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2018-02332]
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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
[EPA-R10-CERCLA-10-2017-0184; FRL-9974-03-Region 10]
Proposed CERCLA Administrative Cost Recovery Settlement; Post
Road Drum Site, Anchorage, Alaska
AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
ACTION: Notice; request for public comment.
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SUMMARY: In accordance with Section 122(i) of the Comprehensive
Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act, as amended
(CERCLA), 42 U.S.C. 9622(i), notice is hereby given of a proposed
administrative settlement for recovery of response costs incurred for
the Post Road Drum Site located at 200 N. Post Road, in Anchorage,
Alaska. Under this proposed settlement, the settling parties are Alaska
Railroad Corporation (ARRC) and SAN LLC. The proposed settlement
requires the settling parties to pay $50,000 to the Environmental
Protection Agency Hazardous Substance Superfund. Upon payment of this
sum to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the settling parties
will be released from their obligations for payments to EPA for costs
EPA incurred at the Site prior to the effective date of the proposed
settlement. For 30 days following the date of publication of this
notice, the EPA will receive written comments relating to the proposed
settlement. The EPA will consider all comments received and may modify
or withdraw its consent to the settlement if comments received disclose
facts or considerations which indicate that the settlement is
inappropriate, improper, or inadequate. The EPA's response to any
comments received will be available for public inspection at the U.S.
EPA Region 10 Office, located at 1200 Sixth Avenue, Seattle, Washington
98101.
DATES: Comments must be received on or before March 8, 2018.
ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, identified by Docket ID No. EPA-R10-
CERCLA-10-2017-0184, to the Federal eRulemaking Portal: http://www.regulations.gov. Follow the online instructions for submitting
comments. Once submitted, comments cannot be edited or withdrawn. The
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. 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 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: Jennifer MacDonald, Senior Attorney,
Office of Regional Counsel, Mail Stop ORC-113, Environmental Protection
Agency, 1200 Sixth Avenue, Suite 900, Seattle, Washington 98101;
telephone number (206) 553-8311; fax number (206) 553-1762; email
address [email protected].
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
I. General Information
The Post Road Drum Site is located at located at 200 Post Road,
Anchorage, Alaska, within property owned by the ARRC. The Site is
approximately four acres that ARRC leases to SAN LLC. Beginning in 2005
or 2006, SAN LLC subleased a portion of this property to William
Vizzera, who did business as Precision Pavement Marking, Inc. (PPMI).
In early November 2010, EPA received a citizen complaint regarding
several 55 gallon drums and containers on the Site that were suspected
of leaking hazardous substances on to the ground and appeared to be
abandoned. On November 10, 2010, EPA personnel conducted a Site visit
and observed an estimated several hundred containers, including 55-
gallon drums and 5-gallon pails, precariously stacked and scattered
about the Site. Labels with the words ``flammable liquid'' and
``organic peroxide'' were observed on many containers. On December 15,
2010, EPA conducted a removal site evaluation. Drums were found in
various states of deterioration as evidenced by bulging, corrosion, and
other physical damage. EPA inventoried hundreds of containers,
collected samples performed hazard categorization sample screening.
Drums and containers were found across the Site on the ground or on top
of or under the various vehicles at the Site--a flatbed trailer, two
flatbed trucks and two box trailers. Approximately 340 fifty-five
gallon drums, 140 five gallon pails and several pressurized paint
vessels and several approximately 250-gallon liquid storage totes were
found at the Site. Field screening and laboratory analysis of RSE
samples indicates that the contents of containers at the site included
ignitable and toxic characteristic RCRA hazardous wastes, which are
hazardous substances. In response to the release or threatened release
of hazardous substances at or from the Site, EPA oversaw the removal
action at the Site.
EPA incurred approximately $231,458 in response costs at the Site.
Pursuant to the terms of the CERCLA Section 122(h)(1) Settlement
Agreement for Recovery of Response Costs, the settling parties will pay
EPA $50,000. In return for the payment of this amount, EPA covenants
not to sue the settling parties for past response costs--response costs
incurred by EPA prior to the effective date of the Settlement
Agreement--at the Site.
Dated: January 2, 2018.
Calvin Terada,
Manager, Emergency Management Program, Office of Environmental Cleanup,
EPA Region 10.
[FR Doc. 2018-02332 Filed 2-5-18; 8:45 am]
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