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Proposed CERCLA Administrative Settlement--Rocky Flats Industrial Park, Jefferson County, CO

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[Federal Register: January 25, 2001 (Volume 66, Number 17)]
[Notices]
[Page 7760-7761]
From the Federal Register Online via GPO Access [wais.access.gpo.gov]
[DOCID:fr25ja01-27]

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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

[FRL-6937-4]


Proposed CERCLA Administrative Settlement--Rocky Flats Industrial
Park, Jefferson County, CO

AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency.

ACTION: Notice and request for public comment.

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SUMMARY: In accordance with the requirements of 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
the proposed administrative settlement under Section 122(g) of CERCLA,
42 U.S.C. 9622, concerning the Rocky Flats Industrial Park site between
EPA, the State of Colorado, and the settling parties listed in the
Supplementary Information portion of this notice. The Rocky Flats
Industrial Park Superfund Site, is located in the 17,000 block of West
Highway 72, approximately 2\1/2\ miles east of the intersection of
State Highways 72 and 93 in unincorporated Jefferson County, Colorado
near the City of Arvada (``Site''). The settlement, embodied in
proposed Administrative Order on Consent for Removal Action, EPA Docket
No. CERCLA-8-2000-20 (``AOC''), is designed to partially resolve each
settling party's liability at the Site through a covenant not to sue
for past response costs, and for work performed, under Sections 104 and
107 of CERCLA, 42 U.S.C. 9604 and 9607. The proposed AOC requires the
Potentially Responsible Parties (``PRPs'') listed below to implement
the selected response actions at the Site.
    Opportunity for Comment: For thirty (30) days following the date of
publication of this notice, the Agency 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 Agency's
response to any comments

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received will be available for public inspection at the EPA Superfund
Record Center, 999 18th Street, 5th Floor, in Denver, Colorado.
Commenters may request an opportunity for a public meeting in the
affected area in accordance with Section 7003(d) of RCRA, 42 U.S.C.
6973(d).

DATES: Comments must be submitted on or before February 26, 2001.

ADDRESSES: The proposed settlement and additional background
information relating to the settlement are available for public
inspection at the EPA Superfund Records Center, 999 18th Street, 5th
Floor, in Denver, Colorado. Comments and requests for a copy of the
proposed settlement should be addressed to Carol Pokorny, Enforcement
Specialist (8ENF-T), Technical Enforcement Program, U.S. Environmental
Protection Agency, 999 18th Street, Suite 300, Denver, Colorado 80202-
2466, and should reference the Rocky Flats Industrial Park Site,
Jefferson County, Colorado and EPA Docket Nos. CERCLA 8-2000-20.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Carol Pokorny, Enforcement Specialist
(8ENF-T), Technical Enforcement Program, U.S. Environmental Protection
Agency, 999 18th Street, Suite 300, Denver, Colorado 80202-2466, (303)
312-6970.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Notice of proposed administrative settlement
under Section 122 of CERCLA, 42 U.S.C. 9622: In accordance with Section
122 of CERCLA, 42 U.S.C. 9622, notice is hereby given that the terms of
the Administrative Order on Consent (``AOC'') have been agreed to by
the following settling parties:

Settling Parties

Adoph Coors Company
Ball Corporation
CoorsTek, Inc. (a/k/a Coors Ceramics Company)
Crown, Cork and Seal Company, Inc.
The Denver Post Corporation
Eastman Kodak Company
Eaton Corporation
Hamilton Sundstrand Corporation
Hwelett-Packard Company
Roche Colorado Corporation
Sterling Stainless Tube Corporation
Zenco de Chihuahua, S.A. de C.V., and
Zenith Electronics Corporation of Texas

    By the terms of the proposed AOC, the settling parties will perform
a CERCLA Removal Action which involves the installation of an air
sparging/soil vapor extraction system on two of the three industrial
properties that comprise the Site (the properties owned by Thoro
Products Company and Hwy. 72 Properties, Inc.). The estimated future
cost to the settling parties to perform the Removal Action is
$3,715,000.
    The United States and the State are providing the settling parties
with a covenant not to sue under Sections 106 and 107(a) of CERCLA, 42
U.S.C. 9606 and 9607(a), the Solid Waste Disposal Act, as amended (also
known as the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act), federal claims
for natural resources damages, and state law related to the presence or
migration of hazardous substances on the Site for: the work performed
under the AOC, response actions associated with the GWI facility at the
Site, and specific work performed by the settling parties in the past
at the Site.

    It is so agreed:

    Dated: October 12, 2000.
Jack W. McGraw,
Acting Regional Administrator, Environmental Protection Agency, Region
VIII.
[FR Doc. 01-2173 Filed 1-24-01; 8:45 am]
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