[Federal Register: September 23, 2008 (Volume 73, Number 185)]
[Notices]
[Page 54804-54805]
From the Federal Register Online via GPO Access [wais.access.gpo.gov]
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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
[FRL-8717-8]
Proposed CERCLA Administrative Cost Recovery Settlement; Amber
Oil Site, Milwaukee, WI, U.S. EPA Region 5 CERCLA Docket No. V-W-'08-C-
911
AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency.
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, In the Matter of: Amber Oil Site; 1016 N.
Hawley Road; Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Agreement for Payment of Past
Response Costs, U.S. EPA Region 5 CERCLA Docket No. V-W-'08-C-911. This
proposed settlement agreement for payment of U.S. EPA's past response
costs includes a compromise of some past response costs incurred by
U.S. EPA in connection with the Amber Oil site in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
U.S. EPA is entering into the proposed Agreement with the following
twenty-three settling parties: AAA Sales & Engineering, Inc.; AD-Tech
Industries, Inc.; Metso Paper USA, Inc. (fka Beloit-Manhattan); Black
and Decker Corporation; F. Ziegler Enterprises; Galland-Henning-Nopak,
Inc.; Intermet Corporation (fka Ganton Technologies); Leggett & Platt,
Inc.; MeadWestvaco Corporation (fka Mead Container); Milwaukee Wire
Products; Muza Metal Products; Kraft Foods Global, Inc. (fka Oscar
Mayer); Pioneer Products, Inc.; Epicor Industries, Inc. (fdba Plews/
Edelmann); Brunswick Corporation (fka Roadmaster Corp.); Alliance
Laundry Systems, LLC (fka Speed Queen Co.); Toolrite Manufacturing Co.,
Inc.; U.S. Chrome Performance Coating; Warner Electric; Wisconsin
Central Ltd.; Metak Tek Inernational, Inc. (aka Wisconsin
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Centrifugal); Wisconsin Knife Works; and Wrought Washer Mfg., Inc. The
settlement requires the settling parties to reimburse the U.S. EPA
Hazardous Substance Superfund $190,000 of U.S. EPA's costs of $194,269
incurred as of January 31, 2008. The settlement includes a covenant not
to sue the settling parties pursuant to Section 107(a) of CERCLA, 42
U.S.C. 9607(a). For thirty (30) days following the date of publication
of this notice, the Agency will receive written comments relating to
the settlement. 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 U.S. EPA's response to any
comments received will be available for public inspection at the site
record repository in the West Allis Public Library, 7421 West Nation
Avenue, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and at the U.S. EPA Record Center, Room
714, U.S. EPA, 77 West Jackson Boulevard, Chicago, Illinois. This is
the second consent agreement concerning the Amber Oil Site in
Milwaukee. An earlier administrative settlement with 55 different
settling parties, In the Matter of Amber Oil Site, U.S. EPA Docket No.
V-W-'04-C-780 was finalized in 2004. Pursuant to that Agreement, those
other 55 settling parties committed to perform the clean-up of the
Amber Oil Site, and pay past, intermediate, and oversight costs as
defined in that administrative settlement. Past costs in the amount of
$155,591 were compromised under that earlier Agreement in consideration
of the 55 settling parties' commitment to perform the removal and pay
the costs described above. That $155,591 in compromised costs is part
of the $194,269 U.S. EPA sought to recover in February 2008, $190,000
of which these 23 settling represents are committing to pay pursuant to
the proposed Amber Oil Site Agreement, U.S. EPA Region 5 Docket No. V-
W-'08-C-911, which Agreement is the subject of this notice of
solicitation of public comment.
DATES: Comments must be submitted to U.S. EPA on or before 30 days from
date of publication of this notice and request for public comment.
ADDRESSES: The proposed settlement is available for public inspection
at the U.S. EPA Record Center, Room 714, 77 West Jackson Boulevard,
Chicago, Illinois and at the West Allis Public Library, 7421 West
Nation Avenue, Milwaukee, Wisconsin. A copy of the proposed settlement
may be obtained from U.S. EPA Record Center, Room 714, U.S. EPA, 77
West Jackson Boulevard, Chicago, Illinois or by calling tel. no. (312)-
353-5821. Comments should reference the Amber Oil site in Milwaukee,
Wisconsin and EPA Region 5 CERCLA Docket No. V-W-'08-C-911 and should
be addressed to Mr. Jerome Kujawa, U.S. EPA Office of Regional Counsel
(C-14J), 77 West Jackson Boulevard, Chicago, Illinois 60604 or
kujawa.jerome@epa.gov.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mr. Jerome Kujawa, U.S. EPA Office of
Regional Counsel (C-14J) at 77 West Jackson Boulevard, Chicago, IL
60604 or at tel. no. (312)-886-6731 or via e-mail at
kujawa.jerome@epa.gov.
Dated: September 11, 2008.
Richard C. Karl,
Director, Superfund Division, Region 5, U.S. Environmental Protection
Agency.
[FR Doc. E8-22228 Filed 9-22-08; 8:45 am]
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