Document ID: EPA_FRDOC_0001-26088
Agency: epa
Document Type: Notice
Title: Proposed CERCLA Prospective Purchaser Agreement: TriStar North, Inc., Former Kaiser Smelter Site, Mead, WA
Posted Date: 2020-10-19T04:00Z

[Federal Register Volume 85, Number 202 (Monday, October 19, 2020)]
[Notices]
[Pages 66328-66329]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2020-23036]

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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

[CERCLA-10-2020-0141; FRL-10015-33-Region 10]

Proposed CERCLA Prospective Purchaser Agreement; TriStar North 
Inc. Former Kaiser Smelter Site, Mead, Washington

AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

ACTION: Notice; request for public comment.

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SUMMARY: In accordance with of the Comprehensive Environmental 
Response, Compensation, and Liability Act, as amended (``CERCLA''), 
notice is hereby given of a proposed prospective purchaser agreement 
concerning the Former Kaiser Smelter Site, Mead, Washington, with the 
following settling party: TriStar North, Inc. The agreement requires 
the settling party to provide full cooperation with the Environmental 
Protection Agency's (EPA) cleanup activities, provide access to the 
property, and exercise appropriate care with regard to existing 
contamination, in addition to making a payment of $50,000 to EPA. For 
thirty (30) days following the date of publication of this document, 
the Agency will receive written comments relating to the agreement. The 
Agency will consider all comments and may modify or withdraw its 
consent to the agreement if comments received disclose facts or 
considerations which indicate that the agreement is inappropriate, 
improper, or inadequate. The Agency's response to any comments received 
will be available electronically for public inspection at https://www.regulations.gov.

DATES: Comments must be submitted on or before November 18, 2020.

ADDRESSES: The proposed agreement is available electronically for 
public inspection at https://semspub.epa.gov/src/collection/10/SC39959. 
Submit your comments, identified by EPA Docket No. CERCLA-10-2020-0141, 
by one of the following methods:
     https://www.regulations.gov. Follow on-line instructions 
for submitting comments. Once submitted, comments cannot be edited or 
removed from Regulations.gov. 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. 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://www2.epa.gov/dockets/commenting-epa-dockets.
     Email: Brooks Stanfield, Federal On-SceneCoordinator, at 
stanfield.brooks@epa.gov.
     Written comments submitted by mail are temporarily 
suspended, and no hand deliveries will be accepted. We encourage the 
public to submit comments via https://www.regulations.gov.
    Instructions: Direct your comments to EPA Docket No. CERCLA-10-
2020-0141. EPA's policy is that all comments received will be included 
in the public docket without change and may be made available online at 
https://www.regulations.gov, including any personal information 
provided, unless the comment includes information claimed to be CBI or 
other information whose disclosure is restricted by statute. Do not 
submit information that you consider to be CBI or otherwise protected 
through https://www.regulations.gov or email. The https://www.regulations.gov website is an ``anonymous access'' system, which 
means EPA will not know your identity or contact information unless you 
provide it in the body of your comment. If you send an email comment 
directly to EPA without going through https://www.regulations.gov, your 
email address will be automatically captured and included as part of 
the comment that is placed in the public docket and made available on 
the internet. If you submit an electronic comment, EPA recommends that 
you include your name and other contact information in the body of your 
comment and with any disk or CD-ROM you submit. If EPA cannot read your 
comment due to technical difficulties and cannot contact you for 
clarification, EPA may not be able to consider your comment. Electronic 
files should avoid the use of special characters, any form of 
encryption, and be free of any defects or viruses.
    Docket: All documents in the docket are listed in the https://semspub.epa.gov/src/collections/10/AR/WAN001020091 index. Although 
listed in the index, some information is not publicly available, e.g., 
CBI or other information whose disclosure is restricted by statute. 
Certain other material, such as copyrighted material, will be publicly 
available only in the hard copy. Publicly available docket materials 
are available electronically in https://semspub.epa.gov/src/collections/10/AR/WAN001020091.
    EPA is temporarily suspending its Docket Center and Regional 
Records Centers for public visitors to reduce the risk of transmitting 
COVID-19. In addition, many site information repositories are closed, 
and information

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in these repositories, including the deletion docket, has not been 
updated with hardcopy or electronic media. For further information and 
updates on EPA Docket Center services, please visit us online at 
https://www.epa.gov/dockets.
    EPA continues to carefully and continuously monitor information 
from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), local area 
health departments, and our Federal partners so that we can respond 
rapidly as conditions change regarding COVID.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Brooks Stanfield, Federal On-Scene 
Coordinator, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Region 10, 1200 
Sixth Avenue, Suite 155, 13-J07, Seattle, WA 98101, (206) 553-4432, 
email: stanfield.brooks@epa.gov; and/or Kristin Leefers, Assistant 
Regional Counsel, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Region 10, 1200 
Sixth Avenue, Suite 155, M/S: 11-C07, Seattle, WA 98101, (206) 553-
1532, email: leefers.kristin@epa.gov.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This agreement is entered into pursuant to 
the authority of the Attorney General to compromise and settle claims 
of the United States, consistent with CERCLA, 42 U.S.C. 9601-9675. The 
agreement requires the settling party to provide full cooperation with 
EPA's cleanup activities, provide access to the property, and exercise 
appropriate care with regard to existing contamination, in addition to 
making a payment of $50,000 to EPA. The agreement also includes a 
covenant not to sue the settling party pursuant to sections 106 and 
107(a) of CERCLA, 42 U.S.C. 9606 and 9607(a).

    Authority: 42 U.S.C. 9601-9657.

    Dated: October 13, 2020.
Calvin Terada,
Division Director, Superfund and Emergency Management Division, Region 
10.
[FR Doc. 2020-23036 Filed 10-16-20; 8:45 am]
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