Document ID: EPA_FRDOC_0001-20477
Agency: epa
Document Type: Notice
Title: CERCLA Administrative Settlement Agreements and Orders on Consent: Quartz Hill Tailings Pile within Central City/Clear Creek Superfund Site, Central City, Gilpin County, CO
Posted Date: 2017-03-30T04:00Z

[Federal Register Volume 82, Number 60 (Thursday, March 30, 2017)]
[Notices]
[Page 15704]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2017-06118]

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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

[FRL 9959-89-Region 8]

Proposed Administrative Settlement Agreement and Order on 
Consent, Quartz Hill Tailings Pile Within the Central City/Clear Creek 
Superfund Site, Central City, Gilpin County, Colorado

AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

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

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SUMMARY: In accordance with the requirements of the Comprehensive 
Environmental Response Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980, as 
amended (``CERCLA''), notice is hereby given of the proposed 
administrative settlement between the U.S. Environmental Protection 
Agency (``EPA'') and the City of Central, CO (``Settling Party''). 
Pursuant to the terms of the proposed settlement, the Settling Party 
will enact a land use ordinance and conduct operations and maintenance 
activities over the Quartz Hill Tailings Pile, within the Central City/
Clear Creek Superfund Site. In exchange, the EPA will provide a 
covenant not to sue, and release certain liens against property owned 
by the Settling Party within the Central City/Clear Creek Superfund 
Site. The State of Colorado is also a signatory to the proposed 
agreement.

DATES: Comments must be submitted on or before May 1, 2017. For thirty 
(30) days following the date of publication of this notice, 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.

ADDRESSES: The Agency's response to any comments, the proposed 
agreement and additional background information relating to the 
agreement is available for public inspection at the EPA Superfund 
Record Center, 1595 Wynkoop, Denver, Colorado.
    Comments and requests for a copy of the proposed agreement should 
be addressed to Maureen O'Reilly, Enforcement Specialist, Environmental 
Protection Agency-Region 8, Mail Code 8ENF-RC, 1595 Wynkoop Street, 
Denver, Colorado 80202-2466, and should reference the Central City/
Clear Creek Superfund Site, Central City, Gilpin County, Colorado.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Amelia Piggott, Enforcement Attorney, 
Legal Enforcement Program, Environmental Protection Agency-Region 8, 
Mail Code 8ENF-L, 1595 Wynkoop Street, Denver, Colorado 80202-2466, 
(303) 312-6410.

    Dated: February 15, 2017.
Suzanne J. Bohan,
Acting Deputy Regional Administrator, U.S. Environmental Protection 
Agency, Region VIII.
[FR Doc. 2017-06118 Filed 3-29-17; 8:45 am]
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