[Federal Register Volume 64, Number 59 (Monday, March 29, 1999)]
[Notices]
[Pages 14914-14915]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 99-7334]
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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
[FRL-6315-3]
Notice of Proposed Administrative Order on Consent Pursuant to
Section 122(g) of the Comprehensive Environmental Response,
Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA), Osage Metals Superfund Site,
Kansas City, KS, Docket No. CERCLA-7-99-0010
AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
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ACTION: Notice of proposed administrative order on consent, Osage
Metals Superfund Site, Kansas City, Kansas.
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SUMMARY: Notice is hereby given that a proposed administrative order on
consent regarding the Osage Metals Superfund Site, was signed by 21
private parties, approved by the United States Department of Justice
(DOJ) on January 13, 1999, and signed by the United States
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) on February 25, 1999.
DATES: EPA will receive comments relating to the proposed agreement and
covenant not to sue until April 28, 1999.
ADDRESSES: Comments should be addressed to Audrey Asher, Senior
Assistant Regional Counsel, United States Environmental Protection
Agency, Region VII, 726 Minnesota Avenue, Kansas City, Kansas 66101 and
should refer to the Osage Metals Superfund Site Administrative Order on
Consent, EPA Docket No. CERCLA-7-99-0010.
The proposed agreement may be examined or obtained in person or by
mail at the office of the United States Environmental Protection
Agency, Region VII, 726 Minnesota Avenue, Kansas City, KS 66101 (913)
551-7255.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The proposed agreement concerns the 1.7-acre
Osage Metals Superfund Site (``Site''), located at 120 Osage Avenue in
Kansas City, Kansas. The Site was the location of metals salvage and
reclamation facilities between 1948 and 1993. Samples taken at the Site
in 1994 found polychlorinated biphenyls (``PCBs'') in surface soils at
levels as high as 334 mg/kg, and lead contamination in levels as high
as 56,600 mg/kg. The EPA approved a removal action at the Site on
February 13, 1995, and began cleanup in March of 1995. EPA completed
its work in October 1995. No further response action is anticipated.
As of May 31, 1998, EPA and DOJ had incurred costs in excess of
$1.3 million exclusive of interest. Each of the proposed settlors
arranged for disposal of capacitors contaminated with PCBs with PCB
Treatment, Inc. PCB Treatment, Inc. then arranged for disposal at the
Site of scrap metal from the capacitors.
EPA has determined that any party who arranged for disposal of
between 206 and 89,387 pounds of capacitors contributed a de minimis
volume of waste to the Site and that such wastes are not more toxic
than any other hazardous substance at the Site.
Each settlor will pay a share of costs based on its volumetric
share of capacitor weight compared to all capacitor weight with an
additional premium of 15%.
Through this settlement EPA will recover $14,000. EPA has recovered
$80,000 through a consent decree with the former owner/operator and
over $194,000 through Administrative Orders on Consent with other
potentially responsible parties at the Site. Negotiations of other
settlements with potentially responsible parties are pending.
Dated: March 15, 1999.
Dennis Grams,
Regional Administrator, Region VII.
[FR Doc. 99-7334 Filed 3-26-99; 8:45 am]
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