Document ID: EPA_FRDOC_0001-29598
Agency: epa
Document Type: Notice
Title: Proposed Administrative Settlement Agreement: Recovery of Response Costs at the Omega Chemical Corporation Superfund Site in Los Angeles County, CA
Posted Date: 2023-05-15T04:00Z

[Federal Register Volume 88, Number 93 (Monday, May 15, 2023)]
[Notices]
[Pages 30967-30968]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2023-10272]

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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

[EPA R9-2022-01; FRL-10948-01-R9]

Notice of Proposed Administrative Settlement Agreement for 
Recovery of Response Costs at the Omega Chemical Corporation Superfund 
Site in Los Angeles County, California

AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

ACTION: Notice of proposed settlement; request for public comment and 
opportunity for public meeting.

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SUMMARY: In accordance with the Comprehensive Environmental Response, 
Compensation and Liability Act of 1980, as amended (``CERCLA''), and 
the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (``RCRA''), notice is hereby 
given that the Environmental Protection Agency (``EPA''), has entered 
into a proposed settlement, embodied in an Administrative Settlement 
Agreement for Recovery of Response Costs (``Settlement Agreement''), 
with Powerine Oil Company and Lakeland Development Company. Under the 
Settlement Agreement, Powerine and Lakeland agree to pay a total of 
$150,000 to reimburse EPA for costs EPA has incurred at the Omega 
Chemical Corporation Superfund Site (``Omega'').

DATES: Comments must be received on or before June 14, 2023. A request 
for a public meeting must be made in writing before May 30, 2023.

ADDRESSES: Please contact Michael Massey at [email protected] or 
(415) 972-3034 to request a copy of the Settlement Agreement. Comments 
on the Settlement Agreement should be submitted in writing to Mr. 
Massey at [email protected]. Comments should reference the Omega 
Site and the EPA Docket Number for the Settlement Agreement, EPA R9-
2022-01. If for any reason you are not able to submit a comment by 
email, please contact Mr. Massey at (415) 972-3043 to make alternative 
arrangements for submitting your comment. EPA will post its response to 
comments at https://cumulis.epa.gov/supercpad/cursites/csitinfo.cfm?id=0903349, EPA's web page for the Omega Site.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Michael Massey, Assistant Regional 
Counsel (ORC-3), Office of Regional Counsel, U.S. EPA Region IX, 75 
Hawthorne Street, San Francisco, CA 94105; Email: 
[email protected]; Phone (415) 972-3034.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Notice of this proposed Settlement Agreement 
is made in accordance with section 122(i) of CERCLA, 42 U.S.C. 9622(i), 
and section 7003(d) of RCRA, 42 U.S.C. 6973(d). The Settlement 
Agreement concerns costs incurred by EPA in connection with Omega, a 
CERCLA response action in Los Angeles County, California, where 
groundwater contamination has come to be located. Powerine and 
Lakeland, which agree to pay EPA a total of $150,000, are the only 
parties to the Settlement Agreement. EPA has collected costs from other 
responsible parties at Omega and intends further cost recovery from 
additional parties in the future; however, because EPA is not 
recovering one hundred percent of its past costs at this time, this 
Settlement Agreement represents a compromise of EPA's costs.

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The settlement includes a covenant not to sue pursuant to sections 106 
and 107(a) of CERCLA, 42 U.S.C. 9606 and 9607(a), and section 7003 of 
RCRA, 42 U.S.C. 6973(d). Under section 7003(d) of RCRA, a commenter may 
request an opportunity for a public meeting in the affected area. EPA 
will consider all comments received on the Settlement Agreement in 
accordance with the DATES and ADDRESSES sections of this Notice and may 
modify or withdraw its consent to the Settlement Agreement if comments 
received disclose facts or considerations that indicate that the 
settlement is inappropriate, improper, or inadequate.

    Dated: May 9, 2023.
Michael Montgomery,
Director, Superfund and Emergency Management Division, EPA Region 9.
[FR Doc. 2023-10272 Filed 5-12-23; 8:45 am]
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