Document ID: EPA_FRDOC_0001-27033
Agency: epa
Document Type: Notice
Title: Proposed CERCLA Settlement Agreement and Order on Consent: Commonwealth Utilities Corporation Power Plant Site, Rota, Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands
Posted Date: 2021-06-30T04:00Z

[Federal Register Volume 86, Number 123 (Wednesday, June 30, 2021)]
[Notices]
[Page 34748]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2021-13886]

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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

[EPA-R9-2021-04; FRL-10023-16-Region 9]

Commonwealth Utilities Corporation Power Plant Site, Rota, 
Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands; Notice of Proposed CERCLA 
Settlement Agreement and Order on Consent

AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

ACTION: Notice; request for 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 of a proposed administrative 
settlement with Commonwealth Utilities Corporation (CUC), for payment 
of costs of a removal action at a power plant owned and operated by CUC 
on the Island of Rota in the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana 
Islands (CNMI). The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) enters the 
settlement pursuant to Section 122(h)(1) of CERCLA. The settlement 
provides for CUC's payment of $315,000, plus interest, towards costs 
incurred by EPA and the United States in removing polychlorinated 
biphenyl wastes from the CUC power plant in Rota during 2011-2013. The 
settlement includes a covenant not to sue pursuant to Sections 106 or 
107(a) of CERCLA, 42 U.S.C. 9606 or 9607(a). For thirty (30) days 
following the date of publication of this Notice in the Federal 
Register, the Agency will receive written comments relating to the 
settlement. The Agency will consider all comments received and may 
modify or withdraw its consent to the settlement if comments received 
disclose facts or considerations that indicate the proposed settlement 
is inappropriate, improper, or inadequate. The Agency's response to any 
comments received will be available for public inspection at 75 
Hawthorne Street, San Francisco, CA 94105.

DATES: Comments must be submitted on or before July 30, 2021.

ADDRESSES: The proposed settlement is available for public inspection 
at EPA Region IX, 75 Hawthorne Street, San Francisco, California. A 
copy of the proposed settlement may be obtained from David H. Kim, EPA 
Region IX, 75 Hawthorne Street, ORC-3, San Francisco, CA 94105, 
telephone number 415-972-3882. Comments should reference the CUC Power 
Plant Removal Site, Rota, CNMI and should be addressed to Mr. Kim at 
the above address.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: David H. Kim, Assistant Regional 
Counsel (ORC-3), Office of Regional Counsel, U.S. EPA Region IX, 75 
Hawthorne Street, San Francisco, CA 94105; phone: (415) 972-3882; fax: 
(417) 947-3570; email: kim.david@epa.gov.

Enrique Manzanilla,
Director, Superfund Division, U.S. EPA, Region IX.
[FR Doc. 2021-13886 Filed 6-29-21; 8:45 am]
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