Document ID: EPA_FRDOC_0001-27962
Agency: epa
Document Type: Notice
Title: Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act Administrative Settlement Agreement: Removal Action and Payment of Response Costs by Bona Fide Prospective Purchaser, Vasquez Boulevard and Interstate I-70 Superfund Site, Denver, CO
Posted Date: 2022-03-01T05:00Z

[Federal Register Volume 87, Number 40 (Tuesday, March 1, 2022)]
[Notices]
[Page 11423]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2022-04223]

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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

[EPA-R08-SFUND-2022-0229; FRL-9559-01-R8]

CERCLA Administrative Settlement Agreement for Removal Action and 
Payment of Response Costs by Bona Fide Prospective Purchaser, Vasquez 
Boulevard & Interstate I-70 Superfund Site, Denver, Colorado

AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

ACTION: Notice of proposed agreement; request for public comment.

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SUMMARY: Notice is hereby given by the U.S. Environmental Protection 
Agency (EPA), Region 8, of a proposed bona fide prospective purchaser 
settlement agreement embodied in an Order on Consent, with Vita Fox 
North L.P. This agreement provides for the performance of a removal 
action by Purchaser and the payment of certain response costs incurred 
by the United States at or in connection with the property located at 
4400 North Fox Street, 4300 North Fox Street and 700 West 4th Avenue in 
Denver, Colorado, which is part of the Vasquez Boulevard & Interstate 
70 Superfund Site. The project will enhance the protectiveness of the 
remedy during development and future use of the property.

DATES: Comments must be submitted on or before March 31, 2022.

ADDRESSES: The proposed agreement and additional background information 
relating to the agreement will be available upon request. To reduce the 
risk of COVID-19 transmission, for this action we do not plan to offer 
hard copy review of the docket. Comments and requests for a copy of the 
proposed agreement should be addressed to Julie Nicholson, Enforcement 
Specialist, Superfund and Emergency Management Division, Environmental 
Protection Agency-Region 8, Mail Code 8SEM-PAC, 1595 Wynkoop Street, 
Denver, Colorado 80202, (303) 312-6343, [email protected] and 
should reference the Vasquez Boulevard & Interstate I-70 Superfund 
Site.
    You may also send comments, identified by Docket ID No. EPA-R08-
SFUND-2022-0229 to http://www.regulations.gov. Follow the online 
instructions for submitting comments.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mark Chalfant, Senior Assistant 
Regional Counsel, Office of Regional Counsel, Environmental Protection 
Agency, Region 8, Mail Code 8ORC-LEC, 1595 Wynkoop, Denver, Colorado 
80202, telephone number: (303) 312-6177, email address: 
[email protected].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: In accordance with the requirements of 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), Region 8, of a proposed bona 
fide prospective purchaser Administrative Settlement Agreement, 
embodied in an Administrative Settlement Agreement for Removal Action 
and Payment of Response Costs (``Settlement Agreement'') with the 
prospective purchaser, Vita Fox North L.P. (``Purchaser''). This 
proposed Settlement Agreement provides for the performance of a removal 
action by Purchaser and the payment of certain response costs incurred 
by the United States at or in connection with the property located at 
4400 North Fox Street, 4300 North Fox Street and 700 West 4th Avenue in 
Denver, Colorado (the ``Property''), which is part of the Vasquez 
Boulevard & Interstate 70 Superfund Site (``Site''). The proposed 
Settlement Agreement also provides a covenant not to sue or to take 
administrative action from the United States to Purchaser pursuant to 
sections 106 and 107(a) of CERCLA, 42 U.S.C. 9606 and 9607(a), for 
Existing Contamination, the Work, and the payment of response costs.
    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 received and may 
modify or withdraw its consent to the agreement if comments received 
disclose facts or considerations that indicate that the agreement is 
inappropriate, improper, or inadequate.

Betsy Smidinger,
Division Director, Superfund and Emergency Management Division, Region 
8.
[FR Doc. 2022-04223 Filed 2-28-22; 8:45 am]
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