Document ID: EPA_FRDOC_0001-16136
Agency: epa
Document Type: Notice
Title: Settlement Agreements under CERCLA: Murray Laundry Superfund Site
Posted Date: 2014-08-20T04:00Z

[Federal Register Volume 79, Number 161 (Wednesday, August 20, 2014)]
[Notices]
[Pages 49313-49314]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Printing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2014-19773]

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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

[Docket Number: CERCLA-08-2014-0007; FRL-9915-31-Region-8]

Notice of Ability To Pay Settlement Agreement for the Murray 
Laundry Superfund Site (Site) Under the Comprehensive Environmental 
Response, Compensation and Liability Act

AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency.

ACTION: Notice; request for comment.

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SUMMARY: As required by the Comprehensive Environmental Response, 
Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980, as amended (CERCLA), notice is 
hereby given that a Section 122 (h)(l) settlement for an ability to pay 
party is proposed by the United States, on behalf of the Environmental 
Protection Agency (EPA), and Murray Towers, L.C. (Murray Towers), a 
Utah limited liability company, for the payment of certain response 
costs incurred at the Murray Laundry Site in unincorporated Salt Lake 
County, Utah (Site).
    The Site encompasses approximately 3.5 acres in unincorporated Salt 
Lake County, Utah. Murray Towers owns property within the Site, located 
at 4220 South State Street in unincorporated Salt Lake County, Utah 
(Property). From 1913-1977, a laundry facility operated at the Site. 
All the buildings associated with the historic Murray Laundry facility 
were demolished in 1982. Thereafter, the Site was used as a dumping 
ground for waste dirt, asphalt, and concrete. In 1999, underground 
storage tanks and perchloroethene (PCE) contaminated water were 
discovered. The tanks were removed, however contaminated soils remained 
on-Site. The EPA conducted a time-critical removal action in 2013 to 
address the release or threatened release of hazardous substances. The 
action consisted of removing contaminated soils and replacing the 
excavated materials with clean backfill. The Site is currently in a 
mixed use area, with businesses and residences.
    Under the proposed settlement, Murray Towers must use best efforts 
to transfer the Property, and relinquish 90% of the net sales proceeds, 
less certain agreed upon fees, to the EPA. Should the Property not be 
sold within three years, the Property must be auctioned and sold to the 
highest bidder, with the EPA still receiving 90% of the net sales 
proceeds. In exchange for the proceeds, the EPA will release the CERCLA 
lien on the Property. The proposed settlement also contains a covenant 
not to sue under Sections 106 and 107(a) of CERCLA, 42 U.S.C. 9606 and 
9607(a).

DATES: Comments must be received on or before September 19, 2014.

ADDRESSES: Please send all comments to Sharon Abendschan, Enforcement 
Specialist (Mail Code 8ENF-RC), Environmental Protection Agency--Region 
8, 1595 Wynkoop Street, Denver, CO 80202-1129; (303) 312-6957. Email: 
Abendschan.sharon@epa.gov.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For requests for copies of the 
Settlement

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Agreement please contact Sharon Abendschan, Enforcement Specialist 
(Mail Code 8ENF-RC), Environmental Protection Agency--Region 8, 1595 
Wynkoop Street, Denver, CO 80202-1129; (303) 312-6957. Email: 
Abendschan.sharon@epa.gov.

     Dated: August 1, 2014.
Eddie A. Sierra,
Acting Assistant Regional Administrator, Office of Enforcement, 
Compliance and Environmental Justice, EPA, Region 8.
[FR Doc. 2014-19773 Filed 8-19-14; 8:45 am]
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