Document ID: EPA_FRDOC_0001-24598
Agency: epa
Document Type: Notice
Title: Proposed Administrative Settlement Agreement: Removal Site Evaluation and Removal Action for the Offsite Operable Unit of the Triple Site, Sunnyvale, CA
Posted Date: 2019-10-04T04:00Z

[Federal Register Volume 84, Number 193 (Friday, October 4, 2019)]
[Notices]
[Pages 53143-53144]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2019-21688]

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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

[EPA R9-2019-05; FRL-10000-77-Region 9]

Notice of Proposed Administrative Settlement Agreement and Order 
on Consent for Removal Site Evaluation and Removal Action for the 
Offsite Operable Unit of the Triple Site, Sunnyvale, 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 an Administrative 
Settlement Agreement and Order on Consent for Removal Site Evaluation 
and Removal Action (``Settlement Agreement''), with Advanced Micro 
Devices, Inc. (``AMD''), Northrop Grumman Systems Corporation 
(``NGC''), and Philips Semiconductors, Inc. (``PSI''). Under the 
Settlement Agreement, AMD, NGC, and PSI agree to carry out a removal 
action to investigate and address vapor intrusion in the Offsite 
Operable Unit (``OOU'') of the Triple Site located in Sunnyvale, 
California. In addition, AMD, NGC, and PSI agree to pay EPA compromised 
past costs incurred by EPA at the OOU and future response costs 
incurred by EPA at the OOU during the cleanup.

DATES: Comments must be received on or before November 4, 2019.

ADDRESSES: The Settlement Agreement is available for public inspection 
at the United States Environmental Protection Agency, Superfund Records 
Center, 75 Hawthorne Street, Room 3110, San Francisco, California 
94105. Telephone: 415-947-8717. Comments should be addressed to Rebekah 
Reynolds, Assistant Regional Counsel, Office of Regional Counsel (ORC-
3), U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, 75 Hawthorne Street, San 
Francisco, CA 94105; or Email: reynolds.rebekah@epa.gov; and should 
reference the Offsite Operable Unit, Triple Site, EPA R9-2019-05. EPA's 
response to any comments received will be available for public 
inspection at the same address.

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) 972-3816.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Notice of this proposed administrative 
settlement is made in accordance with the Section 122(i) of CERCLA. The 
Settlement Agreement concerns work to be done by AMD, NGC, and PSI in 
connection with the OOU of the Triple Site, located in Sunnyvale, 
California. Parties to the Settlement Agreement include the EPA, AMD, 
NGC, and PSI. The Site that is the subject of this Settlement Agreement 
includes all portions of the OOU where CERCLA hazardous substances are 
located. Under this Settlement Agreement, AMD, NGC and PSI agrees to 
carry out a removal action to

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investigate and address vapor intrusion. The performance of this work 
by AMD, NGC, and PSI shall be approved and monitored by EPA. The 
settlement includes a covenant not to sue pursuant to Sections 106 or 
107(a) of CERCLA.
    Under the Settlement Agreement, AMD, NGC, and PSI also agree to pay 
EPA $3,143,623.42 in past response costs. This represents a compromise 
payment for past costs incurred by EPA. EPA is also entitled to 
reimbursement of additional future response costs. 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: September 23, 2019.
John Lyons,
Acting Director, Superfund Division, EPA Region 9.
[FR Doc. 2019-21688 Filed 10-3-19; 8:45 am]
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