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received will be available for public

inspection at the U.S. Environmental

Protection Agency, Region VIII, 999

18th Street, Suite 500, Denver, CO

80202.

DATES: Comments must be submitted on

or before August 8, 1996.

AVAILABILITY: The proposed agreement is

available for public inspection at the

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency,

Region VIII, 999 18th Street, Suite 500,

Denver, CO 80202. A copy of the

proposed agreement may be obtained

from Richard L. Sisk (8ENF–L),

Compliance Attorney, U.S.

Environmental Protection Agency,

Region VIII, 999 18th Street, Suite 500,

Denver, CO 80202, (303) 312–6638.

Comments should reference the ‘‘San

Juan County Historical Society

Prospective Purchaser Agreement’’ and

should be forwarded to Richard L. Sisk

at the above address.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Richard L. Sisk (8ENF–L), Compliance

Attorney, U.S. Environmental Protection

Agency, Region VIII, 999 18th Street,

Suite 500, Denver, CO 80202, (303) 312–

6638.

Dated: June 24, 1996.

Jack W. McGraw,

Acting Regional Administrator.

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Proposed Settlement Under Section

122(g) of the Comprehensive

Environmental Response,

Compensation and Liability Act;

Tulalip Landfill Superfund Site

AGENCY: Environmental Protection

Agency (EPA).

ACTION: Notice of proposed

administrative settlement and

opportunity for public comment.

SUMMARY: The U.S. Environmental

Protection Agency (‘‘EPA’’) is proposing

to enter into an administrative

settlement to resolve claims under the

Comprehensive Environmental

Response, Compensation and Liability

Act of 1980, as amended (‘‘CERCLA’’).

Notice is being published to inform the

public of the proposed settlement and of

the opportunity to comment. The

settlement is intended to resolve past

and estimated future liabilities of 187 de

minimis parties for costs incurred, or to

be incurred, by EPA at the Tulalip

Landfill Superfund Site in Marysville,

Washington.

DATES: Comments must be provided on

or before August 8, 1996.

ADDRESSES: Comments should be

addressed to Docket Clerk, U.S.

Environmental Protection Agency,

Region 10, ORC–158, 1200 Sixth

Avenue, Seattle, Washington 98101, and

should refer to In Re Tulalip Landfill

Superfund Site, Marysville,

Washington, U.S. EPA Docket No. 1093–

08–01–104/122.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Cindy Colgate, Office of Environmental

Cleanup (ECL–113), 1200 Sixth Avenue,

Seattle, Washington 98101, (206) 553–

1815.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: In

accordance with Section 122(i)(1) of

CERCLA, notice is hereby given of a

proposed administrative settlement

concerning the Tulalip Landfill

hazardous waste site located on Ebey

Island between Steamboat Slough and

Ebey Slough in the Snohomish River

delta system between Everett and

Marysville, Washington. The Site was

listed on the National Priorities List

(‘‘NPL’’) on April 25, 1995. 60 FR 20350

(April 25, 1995). Subject to review by

the public pursuant to this Notice, the

agreement has been approved by the

United States Department of Justice.

Below are listed the 184 parties who

have executed the proposed

Administrative Order on Consent.

Ace Galvanizing; Alaskan Copper &

Brass; Albertson Food Center/

Albertson’s Inc.; All City Fence

Company/All City Fence Co., Inc.;

American Building Maintenance (ABM);

American Can Company/MCR Holdings,

Inc.; American President Lines/

American Mail Line; Arden Farms Co./

Arden-Mayfair, Inc.; Art’s Food Center;

Auto Warehousing; Baugh Construction

Co.; Bayless Bindery, Inc.; Bayley

Construction/ Robert E. Bayley

Construction, Inc.; Bethlehem Steel ;

Boise Cascade Office Supply/Boise

Cascade Office Products; Bon Marche/

The Bon, Inc./Federated Department

Stores, Inc.; Brandrud Manufacturing;

Broadmoor Golf Club; Buffalo Sanitary

Wipers/Buffalo Industries, Inc.;

Burlington Northern Railroad/

Burlington Northern, Inc.; Canteen

Service, Inc.; Capital Industries, Inc.;

Cases Inc./Flight Form Cases Inc.;

Champion Bldg. Products/St. Regis/

Champion International Corporation;

Chemithon Corp.; Children’s

Orthopedic Hospital/Children’s

Hospital and Medical Center; City of

Kirkland; City of Seattle; Commercial

Warehouse; Consolidated Freightways/

Consolidated Freightways Corporation

of Delaware; Contour Laminates, Inc./

Radeke Corporation; Craftsman Press,

Inc.; Cree Construction; Crosby &

Overton; Crow Roofing; CX Processing/

Gretag Imaging, Inc.; Darigold, Inc.;

David A. Mowat Co.; Deeny

Construction Co., Inc.; E & E Meats;

Eagle Metals Co./Alcan Aluminum

Corporation; Ellstrom Manufacturing;

Everett Community College; Everett

Herald; Fabricators Inc./Furon

Company; Fentron Industries/Fentron

Building Products, Inc.; Firestone Store;

Fisher Flour Mills/Fisher Mills Inc.;

Fishermen’s Boat Shop, Inc.; Ford Motor

Company; Foss Maritime Company;

Foster & Kleiser/Ackerley

Communications, Inc.; Fred Meyer; Gall

& Landau Construction/Gall Landau

Young Construction Co., Inc. ; General

Construction/Fletcher General, Inc.;

General-Haskell-Amelco/Fletcher

General, Inc./Haskell Corporation/

Amelco Industries; General Hospital/

Providence General Medical Center;

General Services Administration;

General Telephone (GTE)/GTE

Northwest Inc.; Gordon Brown, Inc.;

Group Health; Haight Roofing;

Hardwood’s Inc.; Henry Bacon Building

Materials/CCD Enterprises; Hensel

Phelps Construction; Herr Lumber Inc.;

Hillis Homes, Inc./Centex Real Estate

Corporation; Honeywell Inc./Alliant

Techsystems Inc.; Howard S. Wright

Construction/Fletcher Wright, Inc.;

Hurlen Construction; Hussmann

Corporation; Impression NW/K/P

Corporation; Independent Paper/

Jefferson Smurfit Recycling Company;

Industrial Transfer; Ivar’s, Inc.; J. C.

Penney Company, Inc.; Jacobson

Brothers/Jacobson Terminals, Inc.; John

Fluke Manufacturing Company/Fluke

Corporation; K & N Meats; Keller

Supply; Kenworth/PACCAR Inc.; King

County; Kohkoku USA Inc./Achilles

USA, Inc.; Lake Union Drydock Co.;

Lake Union Terminal/Wards Cove

Packing Company; Lakeside School;

Lucks, Oscar; Lucky Stores, Inc.;

Manson Construction; Marketime Drugs

Inc.; Maust Corporation; Meltec;

Meridian Excavating & Wrecking; Metro;

Morel Foundry/Morel Industries;

National Oceanic and Atmospheric

Administration; NC Machinery/SC

Distribution Corp.; New Richmond

Laundry; Newell, C. A.; Nordstrom Inc.;

North Seattle Community College; North

Shore; Northwest Home Furniture Mart;

Northwest Hospital; Nuclear Pacific

Inc./VIOX Corporation; NW Glass/TBG

Inc.; NW Tank Service/NW

Environmental Services; Oberto

Sausage; Olson’s Market Foods/Quality

Food Centers, Inc.; Olympic Hotel/Four

Seasons Hotel/Westin Hotel Company;

Olympic Stained Products/Clorox

Company/PPG Industries, Inc.; OwensCorning Fiberglas Corp.; Pacific

Fishermen, Inc.; Pacific Iron & Metal;
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Pacific Multiform; Pacific Northwest

Bell/US West Communications, Inc.;

Pacific Partitions; Pampco Construction/

Constructors-Pacific Company; Payless

Drugs/Pay N Save/Thrifty Payless, Inc.;

Pepsi/Seven-Up Bottling/Glaser

Beverage/Alpac Corporation; Peter Pan

Seafoods, Inc.; Petschl’s Meats; Pike

Place Market Authority; Pirates

Plunder/Great Western Pacific, Inc.;

Plaza 600/The Vance Corporation;

Providence Hospital; PSF Industries;

Purdy Company; QFC/Quality Food

Centers, Inc.; R. C. Hedreen Company;

Recreational Equipment, Inc. (REI); Red

Dot Corporation; Reynolds Aluminum

Corp.; Richardson & Holland/Bunge

Foods Corporation; Richmark Printing;

Riches & Adams/Adams News Co., Inc.;

Rubatino Refuse Removal, Inc.; SAFECO

Insurance Company of America; Salmon

Terminal/Olympic Steamship Co., Inc.;

Sanitary Service Company, Inc./City of

Bellingham; Scott Paper Company/

Kimberly Clark Corporation; Scougal

Rubber Corporation; Seaboard Lumber;

Sealand Service Inc.; Seattle Central

Community College; Seattle Community

College District; Seattle District Corps of

Engineers; Seattle First National Bank/

Seafirst; Seattle Golf & Country Club;

Seattle Iron & Metals Corporation;

Seattle Post-Intelligencer; Seattle

Seafood/Washington Fish & Oyster

Company/Ocean Beauty Seafoods, Inc.;

Seattle Times; Seattle Trade Center;

Seattle University; Sellen Construction

Co, Inc.; Skyway Luggage Company;

Snohomish County PUD; South Seattle

Community College; SQI Roofing/SQI,

Inc.; Star Machinery Co.; State of

Washington Military Department;

Swedish Hospital/Doctors Hospital;

Texaco Inc./Texaco Refining &

Marketing, Inc.; Thurman Electric &

Plumbing Supply; Tiz’s Door Sales;

Trident Imports; Tullus Gordon

Construction/Gordon Tullus

Construction; Turner & Pease; U.S.

Coast Guard; U.S. Postal Service; United

Parcel Service; V.A. Hospitals/U.S.

Department of Veterans Affairs; Virginia

Mason Hospital; W. G. Clark

Construction Co.; W. W. Wells

Millworks; Wall & Ceiling Supply;

Washington Chain & Supply;

Washington Natural Gas Company;

Washington Plaza/Seattle Westin Hotel

Company/Westin Hotel Company/

Benjamin Franklin Hotel, Inc.;

Washington State Ferry; Washington

State Liquor Warehouse; Welco Lumber

Co.; West Coast Construction; West

Waterway Lumber; Western Gear/

Bucyrus-Erie Company; Weyerhaeuser.

The EPA is entering into this

agreement under the authority of

sections 122(g), 106 and 107 of

CERCLA, 42 U.S.C. 9622(g), 9606 and

9607. Section 122(g) authorizes early

settlements with de minimis parties to

allow them to resolve their liabilities at

Superfund sites without incurring

substantial transaction costs. Under this

authority, the agreement proposes to

settle with parties in the Tulalip

Landfill case who each are responsible

for less than 0.6% of the volume of

hazardous substances at the site.

In February and March 1988, EPA

contractor Ecology & Environment, Inc.

(E&E) performed a site inspection of the

landfill for NPL evaluation. The

inspection revealed groundwater

contamination with unacceptably high

levels of arsenic, barium, cadmium,

chromium, lead, mercury, and silver.

Water samples taken in the wetlands

adjacent to the site showed exceedences

of marine chronic criteria for cadmium,

chromium, and lead as well as

exceedences in marine acute criteria for

copper, nickel and zinc. In addition, a

variety of metals were found in on-site

pools and leachate. The study

concluded that contamination was

migrating off site. On July 29, 1991, EPA

proposed adding the Tulalip Landfill to

the NPL, and on April 25, 1995, with

the support of the Governor of the State

of Washington and the Tulalip Tribes of

Washington, EPA published the final

rule adding the Site to the NPL.

EPA is currently performing a

Remedial Investigation (‘‘RI’’) and

Feasibility Study (‘‘FS’’) pursuant to an

Administrative Order on Consent with

several potentially responsible parties.

The FS is being conducted in two parts.

The first part, which has been

completed, evaluates various

containment alternatives for the landfill

source area, which includes

approximately 147 acres in which waste

was deposited. The second part will

evaluate the off-source areas, which

includes the wetlands and tidal

channels that surround the landfill

source area. On March 1, 1996, EPA

issued a Record of Decision that

selected an interim remedial action for

the source area. The selected interim

remedy requires installation of an

engineered, low permeability cover over

the source area of the landfill, at an

estimated cost of $25.1 million. For

purposes of this settlement, EPA

estimates that the expected future

response costs at the Site will be

$33,543,626, including EPA’s oversight

costs.

The proposed settlement requires

each settling party to pay a fixed sum

of money representing their volumetric

share of EPA’s past costs and the

estimated costs of future response

actions, plus a premium. The total

amount that may be recovered from the

proposed settlement is $8,130,610. Of

the amount paid, $270,905 will

reimburse a share of response costs

incurred by EPA at the Site, and

$7,859,705 will be deposited in the

Tulalip Landfill Special Account within

the EPA Hazardous Substance

Superfund to be retained and used to

conduct or finance response actions at

or in connection with the Site. Upon

full payment, each settling party will

receive a release from further civil or

administrative liabilities for the Site and

statutory contribution protection under

Section 122(g)(5), 42 U.S.C. 9622(g)(5).

EPA will receive written comments

relating to this proposed settlement for

a period of thirty (30) days from the date

of this publication.

The proposed agreement may be

obtained from Cindy Colgate, Office of

Environmental Cleanup (ECL–113),

1200 Sixth Avenue, Seattle, Washington

98101, (206) 553–1815. The

Administrative Record for this

settlement may be examined at the

EPA’s Region 10 office located at 1200

Sixth Avenue, Seattle, Washington

98101 by contacting Lynn M. Williams,

Superfund Records Manager, Office of

Environmental Cleanup (ECL–113),

1200 Sixth Avenue, Seattle, Washington

98101, (206) 553–2121.

Authority: The Comprehensive

Environmental Response, Compensation and

Liability Act, as amended, 41 U.S.C. Sections

9601–9675.

Jane S. Moore,

Acting Regional Administrator.

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Clean Water Act Section 303(d):

Availability of List Submissions and

Proposed Decisions

AGENCY: Environmental Protection

Agency.

ACTION: Notice of Availability.

SUMMARY: This notice announces the

availability of lists submitted to EPA by

California and Hawaii pursuant to Clean

Water Act Section 303(d)(2) as well as

EPA’s proposed decisions regarding

these submissions, and requests public

comment. Section 303(d)(2) requires

that states submit and EPA approve or

disapprove lists of waters for which

existing technology-based pollution

controls are not stringent enough to

attain or maintain state water quality

standards and for which total maximum

daily loads (TMDLs) must be prepared.

On June 14, 1996, EPA partially

approved California’s submittal.