Document ID: EPA_FRDOC_0001-26964
Agency: epa
Document Type: Notice
Title: Proposed Settlement Agreement: CERCLA; Cost Recovery of Past Response Costs at the Santa Clara Waste Water Treatment Plant Emergency Removal Site, Santa Paula, CA
Posted Date: 2021-06-15T04:00Z

[Federal Register Volume 86, Number 113 (Tuesday, June 15, 2021)]
[Notices]
[Pages 31715-31716]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2021-12459]

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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

[EPA R09-2021-08; FRL-10024-41-Region 9]

Notice of Proposed CERCLA Section 122(h)(1) Settlement for Cost 
Recovery of Past Response Costs at the Santa Clara Waste Water 
Treatment Plant Emergency Removal Site, Santa Paula, California

AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

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 a CERCLA Section 
122(h)(1) Settlement for Cost Recovery (``Settlement Agreement''), with 
Santa Clara Waste Water Company (``SCWW''). Under the Settlement 
Agreement, SCWW agrees to pay some of EPA's past response costs at the 
Santa Clara Waste Water Treatment Plant Emergency Removal Site, Santa 
Paula,

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California (``Site'') in Santa Paula, California.

DATES: Comments must be received on or before July 15, 2021.

ADDRESSES: The proposed settlement agreement is available for public 
inspection at https://cumulis.epa.gov/supercpad/cursites/csitinfo.cfm?id=0900238. Comments on the Settlement Agreement should be 
submitted in writing to Rebekah Reynolds at reynolds.rebekah@epa.gov. 
Comments should reference the Santa Clara Waste Water Treatment Plant 
Emergency Removal Site and the EPA Docket Number for the Settlement 
Agreement, EPA R9-2021-08. If for any reason you are not able to submit 
a comment by email, please contact Ms. Reynolds at (415) 972-3916 to 
make alternative arrangements for submitting your comment. EPA will 
post its response to any comments at https://response.epa.gov/site/site_profile.aspx?site_id=9634, EPA's website for the Site.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Rebekah Reynolds, Assistant Regional 
Counsel (ORC-3), Office of Regional Counsel, U.S. EPA Region IX, 75 
Hawthorne Street, San Francisco, CA 94105; Email: 
reynolds.rebekah@epa.gov; Phone: (415) 972-3916.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Notice of this proposed administrative 
settlement is made in accordance with Section 122(i) of CERCLA. The 
Settlement Agreement concerns past response costs incurred by EPA to 
perform oversight at the Site. Under the Settlement Agreement, SCWW 
agrees to pay EPA $111,000 for past response costs. The Settlement 
Agreement includes a covenant not to sue SCWW for past response costs 
pursuant to Section 107(a) of CERCLA. 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: June 7, 2021.
Enrique Manzanilla,
Director, Superfund Division, EPA Region 9.
[FR Doc. 2021-12459 Filed 6-14-21; 8:45 am]
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