Document ID: EPA_FRDOC_0001-26674
Agency: epa
Document Type: Notice
Title: Administrative Settlement Agreement and Order on Consent for Response Action by Prospective Purchaser
Posted Date: 2021-03-26T04:00Z

[Federal Register Volume 86, Number 57 (Friday, March 26, 2021)]
[Notices]
[Pages 16207-16208]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2021-06308]

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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

[FRL 10022-02-Region 3]

Notice of Administrative Settlement Agreement and Order on 
Consent for Response Action by Prospective Purchaser

AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

ACTION: Notice; request for public comment.

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SUMMARY: In accordance with the requirements of the Resource 
Conservation and Recovery Act, as amended by the Hazardous and Solid 
Waste Amendments (RCRA), and the Comprehensive Environmental Response, 
Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980, as amended (CERLCA), notice is 
hereby given by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), of an 
Administrative Settlement Agreement and Order on Consent for Response 
Action by Prospective Purchaser (Settlement Agreement), with NP Falls 
Township Industrial 2, LLC (Purchaser). The Settlement Agreement 
pertains to Purchaser's acquisition of a 342.97-acre property 
(Property) at the 2799-acre U.S. Steel Mon Valley Works--Fairless Hills 
Facility, located at S Pennsylvania Avenue, Fairless Hills, PA 
(Facility). The Settlement Agreement requires performance of specified 
cleanup activities pursuant to EPA's RCRA corrective action program at 
the Property and establishment of financial assurance for the benefit 
of EPA to ensure completion of the cleanup work. In return, the 
Settlement Agreement will resolve potential claims of the United States 
government for cleanup at the Facility under RCRA and CERCLA.

DATES: Comments must be submitted on or before April 26, 2021.

ADDRESSES: The proposed Settlement Agreement is available at: https://www.epa.gov/sites/production/files/2020-12/documents/us_steel_northpoint_2_ppa_final_.pdf. Comments should be submitted to 
Linda Matyskiela, Remedial Project Manager, EPA Region 3, Mail Code 
3LD20, 1650 Arch Street, Philadelphia, PA 19103, (215) 814-3420, 
Matyskiela.Linda@epa.gov and should reference the Settlement Agreement.
    You may also send comments, identified by Docket ID No. CERCLA-
RCRA-03-2021-0051PP to http://www.regulations.gov. Follow the online 
instructions for submitting comments.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Thomas A. Cinti, Senior Assistant 
Regional Counsel, Office of Regional Counsel, EPA Region III, Mail Code 
3RC20, 1650 Arch Street, Philadelphia, PA 19103, (215) 814-2634, 
Cinti.Thomas@epa.gov.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: EPA will receive written comments relating 
to the Settlement Agreement. EPA will consider all comments received 
and may modify or withdraw its consent to the Settlement Agreement if 
comments received disclose facts or considerations that indicate that 
the Settlement Agreement is inappropriate, improper, or inadequate. 
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. If CBI exists, please contact Ms. 
Linda Matyskiela. 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

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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://www.epa.gov/dockets/commenting-epa-dockets. EPA's response to any comments received will be available for 
public inspection at EPA Region III, 1650 Arch Street, Philadelphia, PA 
19103.

Stacie Driscoll,
Acting Director, Land, Chemicals and Redevelopment Division, EPA Region 
III.
[FR Doc. 2021-06308 Filed 3-25-21; 8:45 am]
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