Document ID: EPA_FRDOC_0001-26880
Agency: epa
Document Type: Notice
Title: Proposed CERCLA Settlement Agreement and Order on Consent: Industrial Waste Processing Site, Fresno, CA
Posted Date: 2021-05-24T04:00Z

[Federal Register Volume 86, Number 98 (Monday, May 24, 2021)]
[Notices]
[Page 27848]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2021-10892]

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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

[EPA-R9-2021-05; FRL-10023-76-Region 9]

Industrial Waste Processing Site, Fresno, California; 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 Pacific Tent & Awning (Pacific Tent), for payment of 
costs of investigation and remediation at the Industrial Waste 
Processing (IWP) Site located at 7140 North Harrison Street, Fresno, 
California. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) enters the 
settlement pursuant to Section 122(h)(1) of CERCLA. The settlement 
provides for Pacific Tent's payment of $21,000, plus interest, towards 
costs incurred by EPA and the United States in investigating and 
remediating contamination resulting from reclamation of solvents from 
printing operations, glycols from fluids used in natural gas 
dehydration, and lead solder and zinc from waste solder flux generated 
by the metal can manufacturing industry during IWP's operations at the 
Site in 1967-1981. The settlement includes a covenant not to sue 
pursuant to Sections 106 or 107(a) of CERCLA. 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 June 23, 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 IWP Site, 
Fresno, California 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. 2021-10892 Filed 5-21-21; 8:45 am]
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