[Federal Register Volume 85, Number 169 (Monday, August 31, 2020)]
[Notices]
[Pages 53811-53812]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2020-19081]


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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

[CERCLA-10-2020-0105; FRL-10013-76-Region 10]


Proposed CERCLA Administrative Cashout Settlement; S.C. Breen 
Construction Company

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''), notice is hereby given of a proposed administrative 
settlement for recovery of past and projected future response costs 
concerning the Hamilton/Labree Roads Groundwater Contamination Site in 
Chehalis, Washington, with the following settling party: S.C. Breen 
Construction Company. The settlement requires the settling party to pay 
$3,250,000 to the Hazardous Substance Superfund. The settlement 
includes a covenant not to sue the settling party. For thirty (30) days 
following the date of publication of this document, the Agency will 
receive written comments relating to the settlement. The Agency will 
consider all comments 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 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 September 30, 2020.

ADDRESSES: The proposed settlement is available electronically for 
public inspection at https://www.regulations.gov. Submit your comments, 
identified by EPA Docket No. CERCLA-10-2020-0105, 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: Andrea Lindsay, Community Involvement Coordinator, 
at lindsay.andrea@epa.gov.
     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-

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0105. 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://www.regulations.gov 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://www.regulations.gov.
    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 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: Robert Tan, Remedial Project Manager, 
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Region 10, 1200 Sixth Avenue, 
Suite 155, 12-D12-1, Seattle, WA 98101, (206) 553-2580, email: 
Tan.Robert@epa.gov; and/or Nick Vidargas, Attorney Advisor, U.S. 
Environmental Protection Agency, Region 10, 1200 Sixth Avenue, Suite 
155, 11-09, Seattle, WA 98101, (206) 553-1460, email: 
Vidargas.Nick@epa.gov.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This settlement is entered into pursuant to 
the authority under section 122(h)(1) of CERCLA, 42 U.S.C. 9622(h)(1), 
to settle claims under section 107 of CERCLA, 42 U.S.C. 9607, with the 
prior written approval of the Attorney General. The settlement 
agreement provides for payment of $3,250,000 from the settling party to 
the Site's Hazardous Substance Superfund special account, to be used 
towards remedial actions at the Site. The settlement 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: August 25, 2020.
Calvin Terada,
Division Director, Superfund and Emergency Management Division, Region 
10.
[FR Doc. 2020-19081 Filed 8-28-20; 8:45 am]
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