Document ID: EPA-R05-SFUND-2021-0581-0001
Agency: epa
Document Type: Notice
Title: Proposed CERCLA Administrative Cost Recovery Settlement: West Vermont Drinking Water Contamination Site, Indianapolis, IN
Posted Date: 2021-09-28T04:00Z

[Federal Register Volume 86, Number 185 (Tuesday, September 28, 2021)]
[Notices]
[Pages 53652-53653]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2021-20795]

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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

[FRL-8983-01-R5; FDMS Docket No.: EPA-05-SFUND-2021-0581]

Proposed CERCLA Administrative Cost Recovery Settlement; West 
Vermont Drinking Water Contamination Site, Indianapolis, Indiana; EPA 
Agreement V-W-21-C-007

AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

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ACTION: Notice; request for public comment.

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SUMMARY: In accordance with Section 122(i) of the Comprehensive 
Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980, as 
amended (``CERCLA''), notice is hereby given by the U.S. Environmental 
Protection Agency (``EPA''), Region 5, of a proposed administrative 
settlement for recovery of past response costs concerning the West 
Vermont Drinking Water Contamination Site (Site) in Indianapolis, 
Indiana with the following parties: AIMCO Michigan Meadows Holdings, 
LLC and AIMCO Properties, L.P. nka Apartment Income REIT, L.P. and 
Genuine Parts Company, as the Settling Parties and Respondents, and 
also AIMCO-GP, Inc. nka AIR-GP, Inc. and Apartment Investment and 
Management Company as Other Covered Parties. The settlement requires 
the Respondents to pay $2,825,000 in past response costs to a Special 
Account. Respondents will also prepare an Engineering Evaluation and 
Cost Analysis as well as pay specified interim and future response 
costs. The settlement includes a covenant not to sue pursuant to 
Sections 106 and 107 of CERCLA, relating to the Site, subject to 
limited reservations, and protection from contribution actions or 
claims as provided by Section 113(f)(2) of CERCLA. For thirty (30) days 
following the date of publication of this notice, EPA will receive 
written comments relating to the cost recovery component of this 
settlement. 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 at www.epa.gov/superfund/west-vermont-water.

DATES: Comments must be submitted on or before October 28, 2021.

ADDRESSES: The proposed settlement is available for public inspection 
at www.epa.gov/superfund/west-vermont-water. Submit your comments, 
identified by Docket ID No. EPA-05-SFUND-2021-0581, to the Federal 
eRulemaking Portal: http://www.regulations.gov. Follow the online 
instructions for submitting comments. Once submitted, comments cannot 
be edited or withdrawn. The EPA may publish any comment received to its 
public docket. Do not submit electronically any information you 
consider to be Confidential Business Information (CBI) 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 CBI or multimedia submissions, and general 
guidance on making effective comments, please visit https://www.epa.gov/dockets/commenting-epa-dockets.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mary Tierney, Remedial Project 
Manager, EPA, Superfund & Emergency Management Division, Region 5, 77 
West Jackson Blvd. (SR-6J), Chicago, IL 60604; email: 
tierney.mary@epa.gov; phone: (312) 886-4785.

Douglas Ballotti,
Director, Superfund & Emergency Management Division, Region 5.
[FR Doc. 2021-20795 Filed 9-27-21; 8:45 am]
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