
[Federal Register Volume 79, Number 24 (Wednesday, February 5, 2014)]
[Notices]
[Page 6900]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Printing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2014-02475]


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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

[FRL 9905-51-Region 9]


Notice of Proposed Administrative Order on Consent for Waipahu 
Ash Landfill, Pearl Harbor Naval Complex Superfund Site (partial), 
Oahu, Hawaii

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 of 1980, as 
amended (``CERCLA''), notice is hereby given of a proposed settlement, 
embodied in an Administrative Order on Consent (``Consent Order''), 
with the City and County of Honolulu (``CCH''), under Sections 104, 107 
and 122 of CERCLA. The Consent Order concerns work to be done by CCH in 
connection with the Waipahu Ash Landfill, located in part on the Pearl 
Harbor Naval Complex Superfund Site, Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, 
Oahu, Hawaii and on land owned by the State of Hawaii and CCH. Parties 
to the Consent Order include the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency 
(``EPA''), the Department of the Navy (``Navy''), Hawaii Department 
Health (``DOH''), Hawaii Department of Land and Natural Resources and 
CCH. The property (the ``Site'') that is the subject of this Consent 
Order includes all areas to which hazardous substances from or related 
to the now closed Waipahu Ash Landfill have come to be located. Under 
this Consent Order, CCH agrees to carry out a remedial investigation 
and feasibility study of the Site under CERCLA. The performance of this 
work shall be approved and monitored by EPA in Consultation with the 
Navy and DOH. The settlement includes a covenant not to sue CCH 
pursuant to Sections 106 or 107(a) of CERCLA. Under the Consent Order, 
CCH also agrees to pay the Navy $63,062.00 in past response costs and, 
to EPA, $25,000 in prepayment of anticipated annual EPA future response 
costs.

DATES: Comments must be received on or before March 7, 2014. For thirty 
(30) days following the date of publication of this notice, EPA will 
consider all comments received on the Consent Order and may modify or 
withdraw its consent to the Consent Order if comments received disclose 
facts or considerations that indicate that the settlement is 
inappropriate, improper, or inadequate.

ADDRESSES: The Consent Order is available for public inspection at the 
United States Environmental Protection Agency, Superfund Records 
Center, 95 Hawthorne Street, Suite 403S, San Francisco, California 
94105. Telephone: 415-536-2000. EPA's response to any comments received 
will be available for public inspection at the same address.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Larry Bradfish, Assistant Regional 
Counsel (ORC-3), Office of Regional Counsel, U.S. EPA Region IX, 75 
Hawthorne Street, San Francisco, CA 94105; Email: 
bradfish.larry@epa.gov; Phone (415) 972-3934.

    Dated: January 27, 2014.
Enrique Manzanilla,
Director, Superfund Division, EPA Region 9.
[FR Doc. 2014-02475 Filed 2-4-14; 8:45 am]
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