Document ID: EPA_FRDOC_0001-25983
Agency: epa
Document Type: Notice
Title: Proposed Administrative Settlement Agreement and Order on Consent for Removal: Pure Earth Recycling Superfund Site, City of Vineland, Cumberland County, NJ
Posted Date: 2020-09-22T04:00Z

[Federal Register Volume 85, Number 184 (Tuesday, September 22, 2020)]
[Notices]
[Pages 59526-59527]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2020-20813]

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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

[CERCLA-02-2019-2008; FRL-10014-05-Region 2]

Proposed Administrative Settlement Agreement and Order on Consent 
for Removal Action for the Pure Earth Recycling Superfund Site, City of 
Vineland, Cumberland County, New Jersey

AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency.

ACTION: Notice; request for public comment.

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SUMMARY: In accordance with the Comprehensive Environmental Response, 
Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980, as amended (``CERCLA''), 
notice is hereby given that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency 
(``EPA''), Region 2, has entered into a proposed settlement, embodied 
in an Administrative Settlement Agreement and Order on Consent for 
Removal Action (``Settlement Agreement''), with Consolidated Edison 
Company of New York, Inc.; Exxon Mobil Corporation and ExxonMobil Oil 
Corp.; Hess Corporation; International-Matex Tank Terminals LLC; 
Infineum USA L.P.; Lorco Petroleum Services; National Grid USA; Patrick 
J. Kelly Drums, Inc.; Philadelphia Gas Works, by the Philadelphia 
Facilities Management Corporation; Public Service Electric and Gas 
Company (``PSE&G'') (and its affiliate, PSEG Fossil, LLC); Sasol North 
America Inc. and Sasol Chemicals (USA) LLC; and Superfund Management 
Operations, a series of Evergreen Resources Group, LLC on behalf of 
itself and ETC Sunoco Holdings LLC f/k/a Sunoco, Inc. (collectively 
``Respondents'').

DATES: Comments must be submitted on or before October 22, 2020.

ADDRESSES: Comments can be sent via email to Clay Monroe at 
monroe.clay@epa.gov. Comments should reference the Pure Earth Recycling 
Superfund Site, City of Vineland, New Jersey, Administrative Settlement 
Agreement and Order on Consent for Removal Action, Index No. CERCLA-02-
2019-2008.
    The proposed Settlement Agreement is available for public 
inspection at this weblink: https://semspub.epa.gov/src/document/02/
615528.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Clay Monroe, Attorney, Office of 
Regional Counsel, New Jersey Superfund Branch, U.S. Environmental 
Protection Agency. Email: monroe.clay@epa.gov. Telephone: 212-637-3142.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Under the Settlement Agreement, the 
Respondents agree to carry out a removal action to remove sludge from 
an above-ground storage tank at the Pure Earth Recycling Superfund Site 
(``Site''). In addition, the Respondents agree to pay a portion of

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the past costs incurred by EPA at the Site (``Past Response Costs'') 
and certain future response costs to be incurred by EPA during the 
removal action (``Future Response Costs'').
    Notice of this proposed administrative settlement is made in 
accordance with section 122(i) of CERCLA. The Settlement Agreement 
concerns a removal action to be performed at the Site by the 
Respondents. The performance of this work by the Respondents will be 
approved and monitored by EPA. Under the Settlement Agreement EPA will 
also receive from the Respondents a payment of $750,000.00 in partial 
reimbursement for Past Response Costs incurred by EPA with respect to 
the Site. This represents a compromise payment for Past Response Costs. 
The Settlement Agreement provides, in exchange for the work and above 
payment, a covenant not to sue by EPA or to take administrative action 
against the Respondents pursuant to Sections 106 and 107(a) of CERCLA, 
42 U.S.C. 9606 and 9607(a), with regard to Work, Past Response Costs, 
or Future Response Costs.
    For thirty (30) days following the date of publication of this 
notice, EPA will receive written comments relating to the Settlement 
Agreement. EPA will consider all comments received and may modify or 
withdraw its consent to the settlement if comments received disclose 
facts or considerations that indicate that the proposed settlement is 
inappropriate, improper, or inadequate. EPA's response to any comments 
received will be available for public inspection online and/or at EPA 
Region 2, 290 Broadway, New York, NY 10007-1866.

    Dated: September 16, 2020.
Pasquale Evangelista,
Director, Superfund & Emergency Management Division, U.S. Environmental 
Protection Agency, Region 2.
[FR Doc. 2020-20813 Filed 9-21-20; 8:45 am]
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