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Dated: October 27, 2015. 

Peter Grevatt, 

Director, Office of Ground Water and Drinking 

Water. 

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AGENCY 

[EPA–R10–CERCLA–10–2015–0134; FRL– 

9936–44–Region–10] 

Proposed CERCLA Administrative 

Cost Recovery Settlement; Ashue 

Road Site, Wapato, Yakima County, 

WA 

AGENCY: Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA). 

ACTION: Notice; request for public 

comment. 

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 for recovery of 

response costs incurred for the Ashue 

Road Site located at Section 17, 

Township 11, Range 19 in Wapato, 

Yakima County, Washington. Under this 

proposed settlement, the settling parties 

are Groat Bros., Inc., T.W. Clark 

Construction, LLC, and the Wapato 

School District No. 207. The proposed 

settlement requires the settling parties 

to pay $95,000 to the Environmental 

Protection Agency Hazardous Substance 

Superfund. Upon payment of this sum 

to Environmental Protection Agency 

(EPA), the settling parties will be 

released from their obligations for 

payments to EPA for costs EPA incurred 

at the Site prior to the effective date of 

the proposed settlement. 

For 30 days following the date of 

publication of this notice, the EPA will 

receive written comments relating to the 

proposed settlement. The EPA 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 EPA’s response to any comments 

received will be available for public 

inspection at the U.S. EPA Region 10 

Office, located at 1200 Sixth Avenue, 

Seattle, Washington 98101. 

DATES: Comments must be received on 

or before December 2, 2015. 

ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, 

identified by Docket ID No. EPA–R10– 

CERCLA–10–2015–0134, to the Federal 

eRulemaking Portal: http://

www.regulations.gov. Follow the online 

instructions for submitting comments. 

Once submitted, comments cannot be 

edited or withdrawn. The EPA may 

publish any comment received to its 

public docket. Do not submit 

electronically any information you 

consider to be Confidential Business 

Information (CBI) or other information 

whose disclosure is restricted by statute. 

Multimedia submissions (audio, video, 

etc.) must be accompanied by a written 

comment. The written comment is 

considered the official comment and 

should include discussion of all points 

you wish to make. The EPA will 

generally not consider comments or 

comment contents located outside of the 

primary submission (i.e. on the web, 

cloud, or other file sharing system). For 

additional submission methods, the full 

EPA public comment policy, 

information about CBI or multimedia 

submissions, and general guidance on 

making effective comments, please visit 

http://www2.epa.gov/dockets/

commenting-epa-dockets. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Ted 

Yackulic, Assistant Regional Counsel, 

Office of Regional Counsel, Mail Stop 

ORC–113, Environmental Protection 

Agency, 1200 Sixth Avenue, Suite 900, 

Seattle, Washington 98101; telephone 

number: (206) 553–1218; fax number: 

(206) 553–1762; email address: 

yackulic.ted@epa.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. General Information 

The ASHUE ROAD SITE is located at 

Section 17, Township 11, Range 19 in 

Wapato, Yakima County, WA, and is 

located on fee property within the 

reservation for the Yakama Nation. The 

Site covers approximately 2.46 acres. 

There is a residential home within the 

Site. The area surrounding the Site 

supports agricultural and residential 

uses. During 2012 a portion of the 

Wapato High School in Wapato, 

Washington was demolished. The 

Wapato School District No. 207 engaged 

T.W. Clark Construction, LLC as the 

general contractor for the demolition 

work. T.W. Clark Construction, LLC 

hired Groat Bros., Inc. as sub-contractor 

for performing demolition work and 

transporting demolition materials from 

the High School. The demolition work 

included the demolition of materials 

that contained asbestos. A portion of 

materials generated during the Wapato 

High School demolition project were 

transported to the Site for disposal. The 

Site is not licensed by the State of 

Washington, Yakima County, or the 

Yakama Nation to receive demolition 

materials or materials that contain 

hazardous substances for disposal. EPA 

conducted a field investigation of the 

Site on October 5, 2012. EPA’s 

investigation revealed the presence of 

asbestos in the demolished materials 

disposed of at the Site. Asbestos is a 

hazardous substance. EPA oversaw the 

performance of a removal action at the 

Site by T.W. Clark Construction, LLC, 

and Groat Bros. Inc. The removal action 

involved the excavation and off-Site 

disposal of the high school demolition 

wastes. EPA incurred approximately 

$311,330.96 performing or overseeing 

the performance of response costs at the 

Site. Pursuant to the terms of the 

CERCLA Section 122(h)(1) Settlement 

Agreement for Recovery of Response 

Costs, the settling parties will pay EPA 

$95,000. In return for the payment of 

this amount, EPA covenants not to sue 

the settling parties for past response 

costs—response costs incurred by EPA 

prior to the effective date of the 

Settlement Agreement—at the Site. In 

the event that EPA continues to incur 

response costs at the Site, EPA’s 

covenant not to sue does not include 

costs incurred by EPA after the effective 

date of the Settlement Agreement. 

Dated: October 15, 2015. 

Chris D. Field, 

Manager, Emergency Management Program, 

EPA Region 10. 

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