[Federal Register: May 8, 2009 (Volume 74, Number 88)]
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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

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Notice of Proposed Administrative Settlement Pursuant to the 
Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act; 
Anaconda Copper Site

AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency.

ACTION: Notice, request for public comments.

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SUMMARY: In accordance with Section 122(i) of the Comprehensive 
Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (``CERCLA''), 
as amended, 42 U.S.C. 9622(i), notice is hereby given of a proposed 
Administrative Order on Consent and Settlement Agreement for Removal 
Action and Past Response Costs (``Agreement,'' Region 9 Docket No. 9-
2009-10) pursuant to Section 122(h) of CERCLA concerning the Anaconda 
Copper Mine Site (the ``Site''), located in Yerington, Nevada. The 
settling party is Atlantic Richfield Company (``ARC''). Through the 
proposed Agreement, ARC will pay to the United States $2.2 million for 
response costs at the Site, and will conduct approximately $8 million 
in interim removal actions to mitigate threats from hazardous 
substances. The response actions that ARC will perform include: 
Installing caps over former evaporation ponds to help prevent 
accumulation of acidic ponds and to prevent the migration of hazardous 
dusts; mitigating threats from soils that contain concentrated amounts 
of otherwise naturally occurring radiation; removing abandoned asbestos 
containing pipes; decommissioning abandoned electrical lines; and 
continuing operation and maintenance of the fluid management system for 
abandoned heap leach facilities. The Agreement provides ARC with a 
covenant not to sue and contribution protection for the work performed 
at the Site, and for the response costs paid.
    For thirty (30) days following the date of publication of this 
Notice, the Agency will receive written comments relating to the 
proposed Agreement. The administrative record and the Agency's response 
to any comments received will be available for public inspection at 
EPA's Region IX Superfund Records Center, located at 95 Hawthorne 
Street, San Francisco, California 94105.

DATES: Comments must be submitted on or before June 8, 2009.

ADDRESSES: The proposed Agreement may be obtained from the EPA Region 
IX Superfund Records Center, at 95 Hawthorne Street, San Francisco, 
California 94105 ((415) 536-2000). Comments regarding the proposed 
Agreement should be addressed to Andrew Helmlinger at the U.S. 
Environmental Protection Agency (ORC-3), 75 Hawthorne Street, San 
Francisco, California 94105, and should reference the Anaconda Copper 
Agreement, and Region IX Docket No. 9-2009-10.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Andrew Helmlinger, Office of Regional 
Counsel, (415) 972-3904, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Region 
9, 75 Hawthorne Street, San Francisco, CA 94105.

    Dated: April 22, 2009.
Keith A. Takata,
Director, Superfund Division.
[FR Doc. E9-10764 Filed 5-7-09; 8:45 am]

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