Superfund; response and remedial actions, proposed settlements, etc.: Osage Metals Site, KS,

[Federal Register: March 29, 1999 (Volume 64, Number 59)]

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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

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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.

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. 99-7334Filed3-26-99; 8:45 am]

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