Document ID: EPA_FRDOC_0001-29381
Agency: epa
Document Type: Notice
Title: Proposed CERCLA Settlement Agreement: Newton County Mine Tailings Superfund Site, Newton County, MO
Posted Date: 2023-03-15T04:00Z

[Federal Register Volume 88, Number 50 (Wednesday, March 15, 2023)]
[Notices]
[Page 16005]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2023-05202]

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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

[CERCLA-07-2023-0005; FRL-10752-01-R7]

Proposed CERCLA Settlement Agreement for the Newton County Mine 
Tailings Superfund Site, Newton County, Missouri

AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

ACTION: Notice; 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 by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (``EPA''), 
Region 7, of a proposed settlement agreement (``Agreement'') with 
Environmental Quality Management, Inc. (``EQM'') for the Newton County 
Mine Tailings Superfund Site (``Site''), Newton County, Missouri.

DATES: Comments must be received on or before April 14, 2023.

ADDRESSES: You may send comments by email to Kate Curl at 
[email protected] or by mail to Kate Curl, U.S. EPA, Office of Regional 
Counsel, 11201 Renner Boulevard, Lenexa, Kansas 66219. Comments should 
reference the Newton County Mine Tailings Superfund Site, CERCLA 
Section 122(h) Settlement Agreement, Docket No. CERCLA-07-2023-0005.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: A copy of the proposed settlement may 
be obtained from Kate Curl, Attorney, Office of Regional Counsel, U.S. 
EPA Region 7, 11201 Renner Boulevard, Lenexa, Kansas 66219; telephone 
number: (913) 551-7745; email address: [email protected].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Under the proposed CERCLA section 122(h) 
settlement agreement, Environmental Quality Management, Inc. agrees to 
reimburse EPA for $1,678,330.40 plus an additional sum of interest on 
that amount calculated from May 12, 2022, through the date of payment 
for past response costs incurred in connection with EQM's disposal of 
lead-contaminated backfill soil in Granby City Park in September and 
October 2016 as part of its work as a contractor to remediate areas of 
the Newton County Mine Tailings Superfund Site. EQM's placement of 
contaminated backfill in Granby City Park required EPA, between July 
2020 and March 2021, to re-remediate approximately 43% of the Granby 
City Park area that EQM had already remediated causing EPA to incur 
additional response costs.
    For thirty (30) days following the date of publication of this 
document, EPA will receive written comments relating to the proposed 
agreement. EPA will consider all comments received and may modify or 
withdraw its consent to the proposed agreement if comments received 
disclose facts or considerations that indicate that the proposed 
agreement is inappropriate, improper, or inadequate. EPA's response to 
any comments received will be available for public inspection at the 
EPA Region 7 Office, located at, 11201 Renner Boulevard, Lenexa, Kansas 
66219.

Robert D. Jurgens,
Director, Superfund & Emergency Management Division, U.S. Environmental 
Protection Agency, Region 7.
[FR Doc. 2023-05202 Filed 3-14-23; 8:45 am]
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