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for cleanups. The policy provides for

smaller penalties for noncompliance by

smaller contributors to Superfund sites,

companies with limited financial

resources, and less sophisticated parties.

This policy reserves the highest

penalties for the most egregious

offenders—the noncompliers who are

financially capable of performing, who

are most responsible for creating the

Superfund site, and whose failure to

perform results in actual harm to human

health, the environment, or EPA’s

enforcement and response program, or

results in serious inequities to

complying parties. Consistent with the

Agency’s ‘‘Policy on Civil Penalties’’

(Feb. 16, 1984), this policy should be

used only in cases where the

government is settling civil penalty and

punitive damages claims.

FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Steven

Rollin, Policy and Guidance Branch,

Policy and Program Evaluation Division,

Office of Site Remediation Enforcement,

401 M St., SW, 2273A, Washington, D.C.

20460. Phone: (202) 564–5142. The

policy is available electronically at

http://www.epa.gov/envirosense/oeca/

osre/osredoc.html. Copies of this

document can be ordered from the

National Technical Information Service

(NTIS), U.S. Department of Commerce,

5285 Port Royal Road, Springfield, VA

22161. Each order must reference the

NTIS item number, PB97–208086. For

telephone orders or further information

on placing an order, call NTIS at (703)

487–4650 or (800) 553-NTIS. For orders

via E-mail/Internet, send to the

following address:

orders@ntis.fedworld.gov.

Dated September 30, 1997.

Steven A. Herman,

Assistant Administrator, Office of

Enforcement and Compliance Assurance.

[FR Doc. 97–30013 Filed 11–13–97; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 6560–50–P

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION

AGENCY

[FRL–5921–2]

Proposed CERCLA Administrative De

Minimis Settlement—Chemical

Handling Corporation Site, Jefferson

County, Colorado

AGENCY: Environmental Protection

Agency.

ACTION: Notice and Request for Public

Comment.

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 a

proposed administrative de minimis

settlement under section 122(g) of

CERCLA, 42 U.S.C. 9622(g), concerning

the Chemical Handling Corporation site

located at 11811 Upham Street, near the

City of Broomfield, in unincorporated

Jefferson County, Colorado (‘‘Site’’),

with the settling parties listed in the

Supplementary Information portion of

this notice. The settlement, embodied in

a proposed Administrative Order on

Consent (‘‘AOC’’), is designed to resolve

fully each settling party’s liability at the

Site through a covenant not to sue under

sections 106 and 107 of CERCLA, 42

U.S.C. 9606 and 9607, and Section 7003

of the Resource Conservation and

Recovery Act (‘‘RCRA’’), 42 U.S.C. 6973.

The proposed AOC requires the

Potentially Responsible Parties (‘‘PRPs’’)

listed in the Supplementary Information

section below to pay an aggregate total

of $131,646.24 to address their liability

to the United States related to response

actions taken 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

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 December 15, 1997.

ADDRESSES: The proposed settlement

and additional background information

relating to the settlement are available

for public inspection at the EPA

Superfund Record 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 500, Denver, Colorado

80202–2466, and should reference the

Chemical Handling Corporation Site,

Jefferson County, Colorado and EPA

Docket No. CERCLA VIII–97–05.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Carol Pokorny, Enforcement Specialist

(8ENF–T), Technical Enforcement

Program, U.S. Environmental Protection

Agency, 999 18th Street, Suite 500,

Denver, Colorado 80202–2466, (303)

312–6970.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Notice of

proposed administrative de minimis

settlement under section 122(g) of

CERCLA, 42 U.S.C. 9622(g): In

accordance with Section 122(i) of

CERCLA, 42 U.S.C. 9622(i), notice is

hereby given that the terms of the

Administrative Order on Consent

(‘‘AOC’’) have been agreed to by the

following settling parties, for the

following amounts (where the name of

a party is followed by a ‘‘/,’’ that

indicates that the name following the

‘‘/’’ is the name of the party as it appears

on the AOC signature page):

AOC CERCLA, VIII–97–05

Name of party Settlement

amount

ADK Pressure Equipment Corp/Joslyn Company, LLC ...................................................................................................................... $2,129.10

Advantage Advertising ......................................................................................................................................................................... 263.72

Antique Refinisher, Inc ......................................................................................................................................................................... 263.72

B.F. Pirelli’s/Brad Fukui ....................................................................................................................................................................... 263.72

Boyd Distributing/Boyd Investment Co ................................................................................................................................................ 131.86

Cascade Collision/Cascade Collision, Inc ........................................................................................................................................... 131.86

Chemcraft Sadolin International/Robert Schwartz ............................................................................................................................... 5,221.61

Coat Rite/Coats and Colors, Inc .......................................................................................................................................................... 145.04

Don’s Auto Body .................................................................................................................................................................................. 580.66

E/M Corporation/West Lafayette Corporation ...................................................................................................................................... 8,148.88

E.T.I. Tank Cleaners/Southern Tank Cleaning, Inc ............................................................................................................................. 725.22
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AOC CERCLA, VIII–97–05—Continued

Name of party Settlement

amount

Easter-Owens Electric Co .................................................................................................................................................................... 4,180.77

Econo Auto Painting (Little Rock) ........................................................................................................................................................ 2,535.56

Econo Auto Painting (Little Rock)

Econo Auto Painting (Sherwood)

Ed Black’s Chevrolet Center/Casa Chevrolet ...................................................................................................................................... 1,305.40

Front Range Dodge/Front Range Auto, Inc ........................................................................................................................................ 395.58

Golden Geophysical/Fairfield Industries Incorporated ......................................................................................................................... 967.77

GTE Maintenance Department/GTE Southwest, Inc ........................................................................................................................... 19,581.04

Hallmark Cabinets ................................................................................................................................................................................ 638.73

Harpers/FHL Group ............................................................................................................................................................................. 4,206.30

Hoffmantown Body Shop ..................................................................................................................................................................... 851.64

J.M. Martinac Shipbuilding/J.M. Martinac Shipbuilding Corporation ................................................................................................... 12,348.76

Kevin’s Body Shop/Kevin’s Auto Body and Paint ............................................................................................................................... 851.64

King Fiber Glass Corp., Fiber Resin Supply Div./CMI/Composite Materials Inc ................................................................................ 10,026.11

Kresco Industrial Coatings/RFI Industries Inc ..................................................................................................................................... 263.72

Lazer Products/Paper Manufacturers Company ................................................................................................................................. 263.72

Martin Marrietta ISG/Lockheed Martin ................................................................................................................................................. 145.04

Metaltech Industries, Inc ...................................................................................................................................................................... 1,374.24

New Mexico State Land Office ............................................................................................................................................................ 92.30

Odyssey Transportation/Odyssey Transportation Inc., of Nevada ...................................................................................................... 741.71

Pacific Enterprises Oil Co .................................................................................................................................................................... 870.27

Partridge Industrial Coatings ............................................................................................................................................................... 5,535.65

Peachwood HOA, Inc./Peachwood Homeowners Association ............................................................................................................ 448.32

Pollard Friendly Motor Co .................................................................................................................................................................... 580.66

Precision Body Shop Volkswagen/Suzuki/Precision Sales and Service Inc./RDS Inc ....................................................................... 1,793.28

Precision Prefinish Inc./Precision Prefinishing, Inc ............................................................................................................................. 3,336.03

Rovalve, Technaflow/Technaflow, Inc ................................................................................................................................................. 5,366.66

Smith.Wolf Construction ...................................................................................................................................................................... 5,037.01

Sorrells Body Shop, Inc ....................................................................................................................................................................... 212.91

Spradley Lincoln Mercury .................................................................................................................................................................... 395.58

Starr Corp./Starr Corp. International .................................................................................................................................................... 387.11

Starwood Air Service/Aspen Base Operation, Inc ............................................................................................................................... 263.72

Teledyne Getz (Denseo)/Teledyne Water Pik, division of Teledyne Industries, Inc ........................................................................... 9,871.27

Teledyne Pines (H & H Tool)/Edward W. Slavin, Jr ........................................................................................................................... 425.82

Television Technology, Inc./Larcan—TTC ........................................................................................................................................... 4,471.10

Town & Country Auto Center/Emanuel Bugelli ................................................................................................................................... 395.58

Twin City Optical/Twin City Optical Co., Inc ........................................................................................................................................ 395.58

United Express—Air Wisconsin/Air Wisconsin Airlines Corporation ................................................................................................... 4,645.30

Verticel Honeycomb/Hexacomb Corporation ....................................................................................................................................... 2,109.74

Western Slope Refining ....................................................................................................................................................................... 6,329.23

Total .............................................................................................................................................................................................. 131,646.24

By the terms of the proposed AOC,

the setting parties will pay a combined

$131,646.24 to the Hazardous Substance

Superfund. This payment represents

approximately 4.6% of the

$2,859,862.00 in response costs that

EPA has incurred through March 31,

1997. EPA estimates that the total

response costs incurred and to be

incurred at or in connection with the

Site by the United States and by private

parties is between $2,926,862.00 and

$3,000,000.00. To date, approximately

$1,000,000.00 of these response costs

have been recovered, primarily through

earlier de minimis settlements. The

setting parties under this AOC arranged

for the disposal of 42,351.25 gallons of

hazardous substances to the Site. This

amount represents approximately 3.55%

of the 1,193,613.15 gallons of hazardous

substances manifested to the Site by all

generators, both de minimis and non-de

minimis.

In exchange for payment, EPA will

provide 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), and under section 7003 of

the Solid Waste Disposal Act, as

amended (also known as the Resource

Conservation and Recovery Act), which

will resolve fully each settling party’s

liability at the Site.

The amount that each individual PRP

will pay, as shown above, was based

upon the number of gallons of

hazardous substances manifested to the

Site. The total amount of settlement

dollars owed by each party to the

settlement was arrived at by multiplying

the cost per gallon by the number of

gallons a party manifested to the Site

(‘‘Base Amount’’) and then adding to

this amount a premium payment equal

to 9% or 60% (see discussion below) of

the Base Amount. The cost per gallon of

$2.1494287739 was derived by dividing

the estimated total response costs at the

time of calculation of $2,887,862.00 by

the 1,193,613.15 total gallons of

hazardous substances manifested to the

Site.

To be eligible for the de minimis

settlement, each PRP must have

contributed no more than .7% of the

total volume of hazardous substances

manifested to the Site. PRPs that were

identified or located subsequent to

EPA’s first de minimis settlement offer

in March 1996 were allowed to

participate in the current proposed

settlement at the 9% premium level.

PRPs that had been offered the

opportunity to participate in EPA’s first

de minimis settlement offer in March

1996, but chose not to do so, have been

allowed to participate in the current
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proposed de minimis settlement at a

60% premium level.

It is so agreed:

Dated: November 5, 1997.

Carol Rushin,

Assistant Regional Administrator, Office of

Enforcement, Compliance and Environmental

Justice, U.S. Environmental Protection

Agency, Region VIII.

[FR Doc. 97–30031 Filed 11–13–97; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 6560–50–M

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION

AGENCY

[FRL–5920–2]

Proposed Administrative Order on

Consent With Compromise of CERCLA

Response and Oversight Costs

AGENCY: U.S. Environmental Protection

Agency (USEPA).

ACTION: Proposed AOC.

SUMMARY: U.S. EPA is proposing to sign

and issue an Administrative Order on

Consent (AOC) under Section 106 of

CERCLA for a removal action at the

Lake (Petro) Station Superfund Site.

Respondents have agreed to perform a

full clean up, in return for USEPA

waiving response and oversight costs of

approximately $20,000. U.S. EPA Today

is proposing to sign and issue this AOC

because it achieves a necessary removal

action at a Site where there was

problematic historical evidence of

liability.

DATES: Comments on this proposed

settlement must be received by

December 15, 1997.

ADDRESSES: Copies of the proposed

settlement are available at the following

address for review: (It is recommended

that you telephone Ms. Noemi Emeric at

(312) 886–0995 before visiting the

Region V Office). Ms. Noemi Emeric,

OPA (P19–J), U.S. Environmental

Protection Agency, Region V, Office of

Superfund, Removal and Enforcement

Response Branch, 77 W. Jackson Blvd.,

Chicago, Illinois 60604.

Comments on this proposed

settlement should be addressed to:

(Please submit an original and three

copies, if possible) Ms. Noemi Emeric,

Community Relations Coordinator,

Office of Public Affairs, U.S.

Environmental Protection Agency,

Region V, 77 W. Jackson Boulevard (P–

19J), Chicago, Illinois 60604, (312) 886–

0995.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Ms.

Noemi Emeric, Office of Public Affairs,

at (312) 886–0995.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The Lake

(Petro) Station Truck Stop Superfund

Site is a 44 acre Truck Stop facility

consisting of several buildings and

parking lots. The Site is bordered

immediately to the north by a creek and

a truck stop, to the south by Interstate

Highway 94, to the east by an interstate

highway exchange, and to the west by

Ripley Street. On July 18, 1996, several

drums were discovered in the rear of the

property by Mr. Jack Danskins, Regional

Manager of Welsh Oil, Inc. He observed

seven 55-gallon drums, six 30-gallon

drums, and sixteen 5-gallon containers.

There was spilled material from one of

the 5-gallon containers which covered

an approximate two-square-foot area.

Welsh Oil, Inc., contracted OSI

Environmental, Inc., for assistance

(stabilization of the materials). After

U.S. EPA and the Indian a Department

of Environmental Management (IDEM)

were contacted, and had sampled and

assessed the situation, U.S. EPA

contacted the named Respondent parties

(due to some of the containers bearing

their companies names) and negotiated

an Administrative Order on Consent for

the remainder of the removal action.

A 30-day period, beginning on the

date of publication, is open pursuant to

42 U.S.C. section 122(i) of CERCLA for

comments on the proposed settlement.

Comments should be sent to Ms.

Noemi Emeric of the Office of Public

Affairs (P–19J), U.S. Environmental

Protection Agency, Region V, 77 W.

Jackson Boulevard, Chicago, Illinois

60604.

Thomas Turner,

Assistant Regional Counsel, United States

Environmental Protection Agency.

[FR Doc. 97–30015 Filed 11–13–97; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 6560–50–M

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION

AGENCY

[FRL–5920–5]

Final NPDES General Permits for

Discharges Resulting From

Implementing Corrective Action Plans

for Cleanup of Petroleum UST Systems

in Texas (TXG830000), Louisiana

(LAG830000), Oklahoma (OKG830000)

and New Mexico (NMG830000)

AGENCY: Environmental Protection

Agency (EPA).

ACTION: Final issuance of NPDES general

permits.

SUMMARY: EPA Region 6 today issues

National Pollutant Discharge

Elimination System (NPDES) general

permits authorizing discharges resulting

from implementing Corrective Action

Plans for the cleanup of Petroleum UST

Systems in Texas, Louisiana, Oklahoma,

New Mexico and the Pueblos of Santa

Clara, San Juan, Pojoaque, Nambe and

Picuris. A Petroleum UST System is an

underground storage tank system that

contains petroleum or a mixture of

petroleum with de minimis quantities of

other regulated substances. Such

systems include those containing motor

fuels, jet fuels, distillate fuel oils,

residual fuel oils, lubricants, petroleum

solvents and used oils. The permits

place limits on benzene, Total BTEX

and pH for all discharges, as well as

limits on polynuclear aromatic

hydrocarbons (PAH) for discharges from

cleanups of Petroleum UST Systems

other than gasoline, jet fuel and

kerosene. Additional limits include

those on lead and Total Petroleum

Hydrocarbons in the Texas permit, lead

and TOC in the Louisiana permit, Total

Organic Carbon and Total Phenols in

the Oklahoma permit, and lead,

Chemical Oxygen Demand, No Visible

Oil Sheen, as well as a biomonitoring

requirement, in the New Mexico permit.

DATES: The limits and monitoring

requirements in these permits shall

become effective December 15, 1997.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Ms.

Wilma Turner, EPA Region 6 1445 Ross

Avenue, Dallas Texas 75202–2733,

telephone (214) 665–7516. Copies of the

complete response to comments may be

obtained from Ms. Turner. The general

permits and response to comments may

be found on the Internet at http://

www.epa.gov/earth1r6/6wq/6wq.htm.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Regulated

categories and entities include:

Category Examples of regulated entities

Industry ...................... Operators of facilities

discharging waste

waters resulting

from the cleanup of

underground storage tank systems

that contain petroleum substances,

such as motor

fuels, jet fuels and

fuel oils.

This table is not intended to be

exhaustive, but rather provides a guide

for readers regarding entities likely to be

regulated by this action. This table lists

the types of entities that EPA is now

aware could potentially be regulated by

this action. Other types of entities not

listed in the table could also be

regulated. To determine whether your

(facility, company, business,

organization, etc.) is regulated by this

action, you should carefully examine

the applicability criteria in Part I,