Document ID: EPA_FRDOC_0001-14239
Agency: epa
Document Type: Notice
Title: Cash-out Settlement Agreements for Ability To Pay Under CERCLA: Jefferson City Residential Yards Site
Posted Date: 2013-06-18T04:00Z

[Federal Register Volume 78, Number 117 (Tuesday, June 18, 2013)]
[Notices]
[Page 36545]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Printing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2013-14516]

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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

[FRL-9824-4]

Notice of Ability To Pay--Cash-out Settlement Agreement for the 
Jefferson City Residential Yards Site Under Comprehensive Environmental 
Response, Compensation and Liability Act

AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

ACTION: Notice; request for comment.

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SUMMARY: As required by the Comprehensive Environmental Response, 
Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980, as amended (CERCLA), notice is 
hereby given that a Section 122(h)(1) cashout settlement agreement for 
ability to pay peripheral parties is proposed by the United States, on 
behalf of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), and Montana 
Tunnels Mining, Inc. (MTMI), a Montana corporation, for the payment of 
certain response costs incurred at the Jefferson City Residential Yards 
Site in Jefferson City, Jefferson County, Montana (Site).
    The Site consists of 19 residential yards, a portion of a U.S. 
Postal Service property, and sections of Spring Creek, in and near 
Jefferson City, Montana. An area known as Corbin Flats Tailings, owned 
by MTMI, lies upstream of the Site, and contains approximately 500,000 
cubic yards of tailings. Precipitation events, snowmelt runoff, and 
other events have caused the tailings, which are contaminated with 
elevated levels of lead and arsenic, to move downstream along Spring 
Creek, and these materials were deposited in certain residential yards 
at the Site.
    The EPA's response actions at the Site included excavation of 
contaminated soils, backfilling with clean soils, and re-grading and 
disposal of the contaminated soils. The removal action was completed in 
December of 2010.
    MTMI has agreed to pay EPA the principal amount of $372,217.14 plus 
interest, as a cashout settlement for a portion of the past costs 
expended at the Site. Payment shall be made in 35 installments of 
$2,500 per month with a final balloon payment of $292,500. The first 
payment shall be due on the first day of the month beginning 30 days 
after the effective date of the agreement. EPA has notified the State 
of Montana of this action pursuant to Section 106(a) of CERCLA.

ADDRESSES: Comments should be sent William Ross/SEE (Mail Code 8ENF-
RC), Environmental Protection Agency, Region 8, 1595 Wynkoop Street, 
Denver, CO 80202-1129.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mia Bearley (Mail Code 8ENF-L), 
Environmental Protection Agency, Region 8, 1595 Wynkoop Street, Denver, 
CO 80202-1129, (303) 312-6554.
    Comments should be sent to: Environmental Protection Agency, Region 
8, William Ross/SEE (Mail Code 8ENF-RC), Environmental Protection 
Agency, Region 8, 1595 Wynkoop Street, Denver, CO 80202-1129.

    Dated: May 29, 2013.
Eddie A. Sierra,
Acting Assistant Regional Administrator, Office of Enforcement, 
Compliance and Environmental Justice, EPA, Region 8.
[FR Doc. 2013-14516 Filed 6-17-13; 8:45 am]
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