Notice of Proposed Administrative Cashout Agreement Pursuant to the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act; In Re: The Miller Salvage Superfund Site, Latham, Pike County, OH, 7428-7429 [2013-02227]
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Anaya, Special Rapparteur on the rights
of Indigenous peoples in the United
Nations Office of the High
Commissioner for Human Rights. A
copy of the agenda will be posted at
https://www.epa.gov/ofacmo/nacgacpage.htm.
The NAC/GAC will hold a public
teleconference on Friday, February 15,
2013, from 12:30 p.m. to 1:30 p.m.
Eastern Standard Time.
ADDRESSES: The meeting will be held at
the U.S. EPA East Building, 1201
Constitution Ave. NW., Room 1132,
Washington, DC 20004.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Oscar Carrillo, Designated Federal
Officer, carrillo.oscar@epa.gov, 202–
564–0347, U.S. EPA, Office of Federal
Advisory Committee Management and
Outreach (1601–M), 1200 Pennsylvania
Avenue NW., Washington, DC 20460.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Requests
to make oral comments or to provide
written comments to NAC/GAC should
be sent to Oscar Carrillo at
carrillo.oscar@epa.gov by Thursday,
February 7, 2013. The meeting is open
to the public, with limited seating on a
first-come, first-served basis. Members
of the public wishing to participate in
the teleconference should contact Oscar
Carrillo at carrillo.oscar@epa.gov or
(202) 564–0347 by February 7, 2013.
Meeting Access: For information on
access or services for individuals with
disabilities, please contact Oscar
Carrillo at 202–564–0347 or
carrillo.oscar@epa.gov. To request
accommodation of a disability, please
contact Oscar Carrillo, preferably at
least 10 days prior to the meeting, to
give EPA as much time as possible to
process your request.
DATES:
Dated: January 24, 2013.
Oscar Carrillo,
Designated Federal Officer.
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Clean Air Act Operating Permit
Program; Petition for Objection to
State Operating Permit for Noranda
Alumina, LLC
Environmental Protection
Agency (EPA).
ACTION: Notice of final action.
AGENCY:
This document announces
that the EPA Administrator has
responded to a citizen petition asking
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EPA to object to an operating permit
(Permit Number 2453–V2) issued by the
Louisiana Department of Environmental
Quality (LDEQ). Specifically, the
Administrator has denied the March 28,
2011 petition, submitted by the
Louisiana Environmental Action
Network (LEAN), Sierra Club, and
O’Neil Couvillion (the Petitioners), to
object to the operating permit issued on
February 15, 2011 to Noranda Alumina,
LLC, for the operation of the alumina
production plant located in Gramercy,
St James Parish, Louisiana. Sections
307(b) and 505(b)(2) of the Act provide
that a petitioner may ask for judicial
review of those portions of the petition
which EPA denies in the United States
Court of Appeals for the appropriate
circuit. Any petition for review shall be
filed within 60 days from the date this
notice appears in the Federal Register,
pursuant to section 307 of the Act.
ADDRESSES: You may review copies of
the final Order, the petition, and other
supporting information at EPA Region 6,
1445 Ross Avenue, Dallas, Texas 75202–
2733.
EPA requests that if at all possible,
you contact the individual listed in the
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT
section to view copies of the final Order,
petition, and other supporting
information. You may view the hard
copies Monday through Friday, from
9:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m., excluding
Federal holidays. If you wish to
examine these documents, you should
make an appointment at least 24 hours
before the visiting day. Additionally, the
final Order for Noranda Alumina LLC is
available electronically at: https://
www.epa.gov/region07/air/title5/
petitiondb/petitions/
noranda_response2011.pdf.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Brad
Toups at (214) 665–7258, email address:
toups.brad@epa.gov or the above EPA,
Region 6 address.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The CAA
affords EPA a 45-day period to review,
and object to as appropriate, a Title V
operating permit proposed by State
permitting authorities. Section 505(b)(2)
of the CAA authorizes any person to
petition the EPA Administrator, within
60 days after the expiration of this
review period, to object to a Title V
operating permit if EPA has not done so.
Petitions must be based only on
objections to the permit that were raised
with reasonable specificity during the
public comment period provided by the
State, unless the petitioner demonstrates
that it was impracticable to raise these
issues during the comment period or the
grounds for the issue arose after this
period.
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EPA received a petition from the
Petitioners dated March 28, 2011,
requesting that EPA object to the
issuance of the Title V operating permit
to Noranda Alumina LLC (Noranda), for
the operation of the alumina production
plant in Gramercy, St. James Parish,
Louisiana for the following reasons: (1)
The Title V Permit fails to incorporate
applicable PSD requirements because:
LDEQ violated the PSD public
participation requirements; certain stack
tests show the NOX emissions exceed
PSD thresholds, yet the Title V Permit
fails to include applicable PSD
requirements for NOX emissions; LDEQ
failed to support its conclusion that
emissions from the yield improvement
project do not trigger PSD review; and
LDEQ failed to apply Best Available
Control Technology to NOX emissions
from the yield improvement project; (2)
LDEQ failed to include emission limits
for PM2.5 emissions; and (3) the Title V
Permit fails to include a case-specific
Maximum Achievable Control
Technology Standard for Noranda’s
Industrial Boilers.
On December 14, 2012, the
Administrator issued an Order denying
the petition. The Order explains the
reasons behind EPA’s conclusion to
deny the petition.
Dated: January 17, 2013.
Ron Curry,
Regional Administrator, Region 6.
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Notice of Proposed Administrative
Cashout Agreement Pursuant to the
Comprehensive Environmental
Response, Compensation, and Liability
Act; In Re: The Miller Salvage
Superfund Site, Latham, Pike County,
OH
U.S. Environmental Protection
Agency (EPA).
ACTION: Notice; request for public
comment.
AGENCY:
Notice is hereby given of a
proposed administrative settlement
under CERCLA concerning the Miller
Salvage Superfund Site (‘‘Site’’) in
Latham, Pike County, Ohio. Subject to
review and comment by the public
pursuant to this Notice. The settlement
resolves a United States Environmental
Protection Agency claim under Sections
106, 107(a), and 122 of CERCLA, against
one party who has executed binding
SUMMARY:
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certifications of its consent to the
settlement, as listed below in the
Supplemental Information Section.
The settlement requires the settling
party to pay a total of $52,000 to the
EPA Hazardous Substances Superfund.
The payment received shall be applied,
retained, or used to finance the response
actions taken or to be taken at or in
connection with the Site. 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, 7th Floor File Room, 77 West Jackson
Boulevard, Chicago, Illinois.
Comments must be submitted by
March 4, 2013.
DATES:
The proposed settlement is
available for public inspection at the
EPA, Region 5, 7th Floor File Room, 77
West Jackson Boulevard, Chicago,
Illinois. In addition, a copy of the
proposed settlement also may be
obtained from Nola M. Hicks, Associate
Regional Counsel (C–14J), Region 5, 77
West Jackson Boulevard, Chicago,
Illinois 60604–3590, or by calling (312)
886–7949. Comments should reference
the Miller Salvage Superfund Site,
Latham, Pike County, Ohio and EPA
Docket No. and should be addressed to
Nola M. Hicks, Associate Regional
Counsel (C–14J), Region 5, 77 West
Jackson Boulevard, Chicago, Illinois
60604.
ADDRESSES:
The
parties listed below have executed
binding certifications of their consent to
participate in the settlement. MASCO
Cabinetry Middlefield LLC, successor by
way of merger to Mill’s Pride, LP.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Nola
M. Hicks, Associate Regional Counsel
(C–14J), Region 5, 77 West Jackson
Boulevard, Chicago, Illinois 60604, or
call (312) 886–7949.
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FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Authority: The Comprehensive
Environmental Response, Compensation and
Liability Act, of 1980, 42 U.S.C. 9604,
9606(a), 9607, and 9622, as amended.
Dated: December 20, 2012.
Richard C. Karl,
Director, Superfund Division, Region 5.
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AGENCY
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Adequacy Status of the Dallas-Fort
Worth, TX Reasonable Further
Progress 8-Hour Ozone Motor Vehicle
Emission Budgets for Transportation
Conformity Purposes
Environmental Protection
Agency (EPA).
AGENCY:
ACTION:
Notice of adequacy.
EPA is notifying the public
that it has found that the motor vehicle
emissions budgets (MVEBs) in the
Dallas-Fort Worth, Texas (DFW)
Reasonable Further Progress (RFP) State
Implementation Plan (SIP) revision,
submitted on January 17, 2012 by the
Texas Commission on Environmental
Quality (TCEQ) are adequate for
transportation conformity purposes. As
a result of EPA’s finding, the DFW area
must use these budgets for future
conformity determinations.
SUMMARY:
These budgets are effective
February 19, 2013.
DATES:
The
essential information in this notice will
be available at EPA’s conformity Web
site: https://www.epa.gov/otaq/
stateresources/transconf/adequacy.htm.
You may also contact Mr. Jeffrey Riley,
Air Planning Section (6PD–L), U.S.
Environmental Protection Agency,
Region 6, 1445 Ross Avenue, Dallas,
Texas 75202–2733, telephone (214)
665–8542, Email address:
Riley.Jeffrey@epa.gov.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Throughout this document ‘‘we,’’ ‘‘us,’’
and ‘‘our’’ refers to EPA. The word
‘‘budget(s)’’ refers to the mobile source
emissions budget for volatile organic
compounds (VOCs) and the mobile
source emissions budget for nitrogen
oxides (NOX).
On January 17, 2012, we received a
SIP revision from the TCEQ. This
revision consisted of an RFP SIP for the
DFW ozone nonattainment area. This
submission established MVEBs for the
DFW area for the years 2011 and 2012.
The MVEB is the amount of emissions
allowed in the state implementation
plan for on-road motor vehicles; it
establishes an emissions ceiling for the
regional transportation network. The
MVEBs are provided in Table 1:
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On February 27, 2012, EPA posted the
availability of the DFW area MVEBs on
EPA’s Web site for the purpose of
soliciting public comments, as part of
the adequacy process. The comment
period closed on March 28, 2012, and
we received no comments.
Today’s notice is simply an
announcement of a finding that EPA has
already made. EPA Region 6 sent a letter
to TCEQ on December 27, 2012, finding
that the MVEBs in the DFW RFP SIP,
submitted on January 17, 2012 are
adequate and must be used for
transportation conformity
determinations in the DFW area. This
finding has also been announced on
EPA’s conformity Web site: https://
www.epa.gov/otaq/stateresources/
transconf/adequacy.htm.
Transportation conformity is required
by section 176(c) of the Clean Air Act.
EPA’s conformity rule, 40 Code of
Federal Regulations (CFR) part 93,
requires that transportation plans,
programs and projects conform to state
air quality implementation plans and
establishes the criteria and procedures
for determining whether or not they do
so. Conformity to a SIP means that
transportation activities will not
produce new air quality violations,
worsen existing violations, or delay
timely attainment of the national
ambient air quality standards.
The criteria by which EPA determines
whether a SIP’s MVEB is adequate for
transportation conformity purposes are
outlined in 40 CFR 93.118(e)(4). We
have also described the process for
determining the adequacy of submitted
SIP budgets in our July 1, 2004, final
rulemaking entitled, ‘‘Transportation
Conformity Rule Amendments for the
New 8-hour Ozone and PM2.5 National
Ambient Air Quality Standards and
Miscellaneous Revisions for Existing
Areas; Transportation Conformity Rule
Amendments: Response to Court
Decision and Additional Rule Changes’’
(69 FR 40004). Please note that an
adequacy review is separate from EPA’s
completeness review, and it should not
be used to prejudge EPA’s ultimate
approval of the DFW RFP SIP revision
submittal. Even if EPA finds the budgets
adequate, the DFW RFP SIP revision
submittal could later be disapproved.
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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
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Notice of Proposed Administrative Cashout Agreement Pursuant to
the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability
Act; In Re: The Miller Salvage Superfund Site, Latham, Pike County, OH
AGENCY: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
ACTION: Notice; request for public comment.
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SUMMARY: Notice is hereby given of a proposed administrative settlement
under CERCLA concerning the Miller Salvage Superfund Site (``Site'') in
Latham, Pike County, Ohio. Subject to review and comment by the public
pursuant to this Notice. The settlement resolves a United States
Environmental Protection Agency claim under Sections 106, 107(a), and
122 of CERCLA, against one party who has executed binding
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certifications of its consent to the settlement, as listed below in the
Supplemental Information Section.
The settlement requires the settling party to pay a total of
$52,000 to the EPA Hazardous Substances Superfund. The payment received
shall be applied, retained, or used to finance the response actions
taken or to be taken at or in connection with the Site. 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, 7th Floor File
Room, 77 West Jackson Boulevard, Chicago, Illinois.
DATES: Comments must be submitted by March 4, 2013.
ADDRESSES: The proposed settlement is available for public inspection
at the EPA, Region 5, 7th Floor File Room, 77 West Jackson Boulevard,
Chicago, Illinois. In addition, a copy of the proposed settlement also
may be obtained from Nola M. Hicks, Associate Regional Counsel (C-14J),
Region 5, 77 West Jackson Boulevard, Chicago, Illinois 60604-3590, or
by calling (312) 886-7949. Comments should reference the Miller Salvage
Superfund Site, Latham, Pike County, Ohio and EPA Docket No. and should
be addressed to Nola M. Hicks, Associate Regional Counsel (C-14J),
Region 5, 77 West Jackson Boulevard, Chicago, Illinois 60604.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The parties listed below have executed
binding certifications of their consent to participate in the
settlement. MASCO Cabinetry Middlefield LLC, successor by way of merger
to Mill's Pride, LP.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Nola M. Hicks, Associate Regional
Counsel (C-14J), Region 5, 77 West Jackson Boulevard, Chicago, Illinois
60604, or call (312) 886-7949.
Authority: The Comprehensive Environmental Response,
Compensation and Liability Act, of 1980, 42 U.S.C. 9604, 9606(a),
9607, and 9622, as amended.
Dated: December 20, 2012.
Richard C. Karl,
Director, Superfund Division, Region 5.
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