Document ID: EPA_FRDOC_0001-28436
Agency: epa
Document Type: Notice
Title: Proposed Administrative Settlement Agreement: Recovery of Past Response Costs at the Omega Chemical Corporation Superfund Site in Los Angeles County, CA
Posted Date: 2022-06-23T04:00Z

[Federal Register Volume 87, Number 120 (Thursday, June 23, 2022)]
[Notices]
[Page 37509]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2022-13380]

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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

[EPA R9-2022-01; FRL-9853-01-R9]

Notice of Proposed Administrative Settlement Agreement for 
Recovery of Past Response Costs at the Omega Chemical Corporation 
Superfund Site in Los Angeles County, 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 for Recovery of Past Response Costs (``Settlement 
Agreement''), with Powerine Oil Company and Lakeland Development 
Company. Under the Settlement Agreement, Powerine and Lakeland agree to 
pay a total of $150,000 to reimburse EPA for costs EPA has incurred at 
the Omega Chemical Corporation Superfund Site (``Omega'').

DATES: Comments must be received on or before July 25, 2022.

ADDRESSES: Please contact Michael Massey at [email protected] or 
(415) 972-3034 to request a copy of the Settlement Agreement. Comments 
on the Settlement Agreement should be submitted in writing to Mr. 
Massey at [email protected]. Comments should reference the Omega 
Site and the EPA Docket Number for the Settlement Agreement, EPA R9-
2022-01. If for any reason you are not able to submit a comment by 
email, please contact Mr. Massey at (415) 972-3043 to make alternative 
arrangements for submitting your comment. EPA will post its response to 
comments at https://cumulis.epa.gov/supercpad/cursites/csitinfo.cfm?id=0903349, EPA's web page for the Omega Site.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Michael Massey, Assistant Regional 
Counsel (ORC-3), Office of Regional Counsel, U.S. EPA Region IX, 75 
Hawthorne Street, San Francisco, CA 94105; Email: 
[email protected]; Phone (415) 972-3034.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Notice of this proposed Settlement Agreement 
is made in accordance with Section 122(i) of CERCLA, 42 U.S.C. 9622(i). 
The Settlement Agreement concerns costs incurred by EPA in connection 
with Omega, a CERCLA response action in Los Angeles County, California, 
where groundwater contamination has come to be located. Powerine and 
Lakeland, which agree to pay EPA a total of $150,000, are the only 
parties to the Settlement Agreement. EPA has collected costs from other 
responsible parties at Omega and intends further cost recovery from 
additional parties in the future; however, because EPA is not 
recovering one hundred percent of its past costs at this time, this 
Settlement Agreement represents a compromise of EPA's costs. The 
settlement includes a covenant not to sue pursuant to Sections 106 and 
107(a) of CERCLA, 42 U.S.C 9606 and 9607(a).
    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: June 15, 2022.
Michael Montgomery,
Director, Superfund and Emergency Management Division, Region 9.
[FR Doc. 2022-13380 Filed 6-22-22; 8:45 am]
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