Document ID: EPA-R10-SFUND-2023-0440-0002
Agency: epa
Document Type: Notice
Title: Proposed Settlement Agreement: CERCLA
Posted Date: 2023-09-26T04:00Z

[Federal Register Volume 88, Number 185 (Tuesday, September 26, 2023)]
[Notices]
[Page 66000]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2023-20934]

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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

[CERCLA-10-2023-0121; FRL-11364-01-R10]

Notice of Proposed Administrative Settlement Agreement for 
Recovery of Past Response Costs for the Klamath Falls Motel Mercury 
Spill Response Site, Klamath County, Oregon

AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency.

ACTION: Notice of proposed settlement; 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 Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has entered 
into a proposed settlement, embodied in an Administrative Settlement 
Agreement for Recovery of Past Response Costs (Settlement Agreement), 
with the following settling party: Sugar Pine Hotel, Inc. Under the 
Settlement Agreement, the settling party agrees to pay a total of 
$44,192 plus interest to reimburse the EPA for costs the EPA has 
incurred at the Klamath Falls Motel Mercury Spill Response Site (Site).

DATES: Comments must be received on or before October 26, 2023.

ADDRESSES: You may send comments, identified by the EPA Docket Number 
for the Settlement Agreement, CERCLA-10-2023-0121, by any of the 
following methods: Federal eRulemaking Portal: https://www.regulations.gov (our preferred method). Follow the online 
instructions for submitting comments. Email: Ms. Christina Vieira da 
Rosa, [email protected]. Mail: EPA Region 10, ATTN: 
Christina Vieira da Rosa, Assistant Regional Counsel, Office of 
Regional Counsel, 1200 Sixth Avenue, Suite 155, M/S: 11-C07, Seattle, 
WA 98101.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Christina Vieira da Rosa, Assistant 
Regional Counsel, EPA Region 10, 1200 Sixth Avenue, Suite 155, M/S: 11-
C07, Seattle, WA 98101; Email: [email protected]; Phone 
(206) 553-2601.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Written Comments

    Submit your comments, identified by the EPA Docket Number for the 
Settlement Agreement, CERCLA-10-2023-0121, at https://www.regulations.gov (our preferred method), or the other methods 
identified in the ADDRESSES section. Once submitted, comments cannot be 
edited or removed from the docket. The EPA may publish any comment 
received to its public docket. Do not submit electronically any 
information you consider to be Confidential Business Information 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 Confidential Business Information or 
multimedia submissions, and general guidance on making effective 
comments, please visit https://www.epa.gov/dockets/commenting-epa-dockets.

Background Information

    Notice of this proposed Settlement Agreement is made in accordance 
with Section 122(i) of CERCLA, 42 U.S.C. 9622(i). The Settlement 
Agreement concerns costs incurred by the EPA in connection with the 
Klamath Falls Motel Mercury Spill Response Site (Site) a CERCLA 
response action in Klamath County, Oregon, where mercury contamination 
has come to be located. Sugar Pine Hotel, Inc., which agrees to pay the 
EPA a total of $44,192, plus interest, is the only party to the 
Settlement Agreement. Because the EPA is not recovering one hundred 
percent of its past costs, this Settlement Agreement represents a 
compromise of the EPA's costs. The settlement includes a covenant not 
to sue the settling party pursuant to sections 106 and 107(a) of 
CERCLA, 42 U.S.C 9606 and 9607(a).
    The 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. 
The EPA's response to any comments received will be available for 
public inspection at: https://semspub.epa.gov/src/collection/10/AR66854.
    Authority: 42 U.S.C. 9601-9657.

Calvin Terada,
Director, Superfund and Emergency Management Division, Region 10.
[FR Doc. 2023-20934 Filed 9-25-23; 8:45 am]
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