Proposed CERCLA Administrative Cost Recovery Settlement; Cadie Auto Salvage Site, Belvidere, Boone County, Illinois

Richard C. Karl
Environmental Protection Agency
December 10, 2013

[Federal Register Volume 78, Number 237 (Tuesday, December 10, 2013)]
[Notices]
[Pages 74128-74129]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Printing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2013-29454]


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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

[FRL-9903-97-Region-5]


Proposed CERCLA Administrative Cost Recovery Settlement; Cadie 
Auto Salvage Site, Belvidere, Boone County, Illinois

AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

ACTION: Notice; request for public comment.

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SUMMARY: In accordance with the Comprehensive Environmental Response, 
Compensation, and Liability Act, as amended (``CERCLA''), notice is 
hereby given of a proposed administrative settlement for recovery of 
past response costs concerning the Cadie Auto Salvage Site in 
Belvidere, Boone County, Illinois with the following settling parties: 
UOP, LLC; Allied Chemical Corporation; Honeywell International, Inc.; 
S.J. Smith Company Inc.; United States Department of Energy/Argonne 
National Laboratory; United States Department of Energy/Sandia National 
Laboratories; United States Department of Energy/Mound Facility; and 
Defense Logistics Agency. The settlement requires the non-owner 
Settling Parties to pay a total of $85,898, plus any interest accrued 
between the date of receipt of notice by the Settling Parties that EPA 
has signed the CERCLA Settlement Agreement (Agreement) and the 
Effective Date of the Agreement, to the Hazardous Substance Superfund 
through an escrow account to be established by the Settling Party. The 
settlement includes a covenant not to sue the Settling Parties pursuant 
to Section 107(a) of CERCLA, and contribution protection for the 
Settling Parties. For thirty (30) days following the date of 
publication of this notice, the Agency will receive written comments 
relating to the settlement. The Agency will consider all comments 
received and may modify or withdraw its consent to the settlement if 
comments received disclose facts or considerations which indicate that 
the settlement is inappropriate, improper, or inadequate. The Agency's 
response to any comments received will be available for public 
inspection at the EPA, Region 5, Records Center, 77 W. Jackson Blvd., 
7th Fl., and Chicago, Illinois 60604.

DATES: Comments must be submitted on or before January 9, 2014.

ADDRESSES: The proposed settlement is available for public inspection 
at the EPA, Region 5, Records Center, 77 W. Jackson Blvd., 7th Fl., 
Chicago, Illinois 60604. A copy of the proposed

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settlement may be obtained from Peter Felitti, Assoc. Regional Counsel, 
EPA, Office of Regional Counsel, Region 5, 77 W. Jackson Blvd., mail 
code: C-14J, Chicago, Illinois 60604. Comments should reference the 
Cadie Auto Salvage Site, Belvidere, Boone County, Illinois and EPA 
Docket No. and should be addressed to Peter Felitti, Assoc. Regional 
Counsel, EPA, Office of Regional Counsel, Region 5, 77 W. Jackson 
Blvd., mail code: C-14J, Chicago, Illinois 60604.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Peter Felitti, Assoc. Regional 
Counsel, EPA, Office of Regional Counsel, Region 5, 77 W. Jackson 
Blvd., mail code: C-14J, Chicago, Illinois 60604.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The Cadie Auto Salvage Superfund Site is 
located in Belvidere, Boone County, Illinois. After EPA received a 
request from the Illinois Environmental Protection Agency, U.S. EPA 
conducted an assessment of the Site and conducted a removal action. A 
total of 248 compressed gas cylinders on the Site were shipped off site 
for disposal as well as approximately 733 gallons of flammable liquids, 
two oz. of metallic mercury, ten tons of empty drums, eight tons of 
non-hazardous soil, 18 tons of hazardous soil, and fifty cans of waste 
aerosols. The work was completed on December 1, 2010. U.S. EPA issued a 
General Notice Letter to the Settling Parties in June 2011. Between 
June 2011 and August 2013, EPA and the Settling Parties negotiated the 
present proposed Administrative Settlement.

    Dated: November 21, 2013.
Richard C. Karl,
Director, Superfund Division.
[FR Doc. 2013-29454 Filed 12-9-13; 8:45 am]
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