July 29, 2016

Mr. Walter Mugdan, Director

Emergency Remedial Response Division 

United States Environmental Protection Agency 

Region II

290 Broadway, 20th Floor

New York, New York 10007-1866

Re: Notice of Intent to Delete

Notice of Deletion

Site Name: Jackson Steel, Site No. 130095 

Village of Mineola, Nassau County

Dear Mr. Mugdan:

The New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) and the 

New York State Department of Health (DOH) have reviewed the proposed Notice of Intent 

to Delete and Notice of Deletion for the subject site. The Departments concur with the intent 

to delete this site from the National Priorities List (NPL).

The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) issued an Explanation 

of Significant Difference for this site on June 20, 2016 that provides for the 

implementation of several Institutional Controls (ICs) intended to prevent human

exposure to indoor air contamination at the site and from contamination which has

emanated from the site. On that date EPA also issued a Vapor Intrusion Management Plan

and an Institutional Control Implementation and Assurance Plan that together will serve as

a Site Management Plan for the ICs. Because remedial activities, including monitoring,

will continue at the site for more than five years, EPA will continue to conduct five year

reviews. The next five year review is due by August 2017. 

The Village of Mineola Superintendent of Buildings was sent a letter on June 20, 

2016, informing the Village of the need for the EPA and DEC to receive notification of

planned occupancy or redevelopment of the property. On July 27, 2016 Notices of 

Successors in Title were filed for the Jackson Steel property and the adjacent property

on Herricks Road currently occupied by a daycare center. These notices are needed so

that a vapor intrusion evaluation and/or mitigation, as needed, is addressed with

appropriate oversight should a planned occupancy or redevelopment of the Jackson 

Steel property be contemplated, or a change in ownership of the daycare property occurs.
EPA will ensure that an Environmental Easement for the Jackson Steel property is 

recorded once site ownership is resolved. 

A final inspection of the Jackson Steel site took place on July 13, 2016. The 

aboveground In Situ Vapor Extraction (ISVE) infrastructure was removed by EPA in June 

2013. From March to April 19, 2016, the groundwater monitoring wells, ISVE wells, vapor 

monitoring wells, In Situ Chemical Oxidation (ISCO) injection wells and ISCO monitoring 

wells were decommissioned. Well casings from the Westbay systems were removed from 

the site in July 2016.

DEC concurs that all appropriate response actions under CERCLA have been 

completed at the Site and deletion from the NPL is appropriate. As site management is 

still required and the project lead will be transitioning to the DEC, the DEC intends to 

initiate the reclassification process Registry class 2 to class 4 (i.e., site properly closed 

but requires continued site management consisting of operation, maintenance and/or 

monitoring).

If you have any questions regarding this matter, please do not hesitate to contact 

me.

Sincerely,

Robert W. Schick, P.E. 

Director

Division of Environmental Remediation

ec: Doug Garbarini, EPA 

Joel Singerman, EPA 

Christos Tsiamis, EPA 

Krista Anders, DOH 

Charlotte Bethoney, DOH 

Justin Deming, DOH 

Jacquelyn Nealon, DOH

J. DeFranco, NCHD 

Michael Ryan, DEC 

Walter Parish, DEC 

Jim Harrington, DEC 

Dan Evans, DEC 

Cynthia Whitfield, DEC