Proposed CERCLA Administrative Settlement Agreement and Order on Consent: City of Salem, Mansell Field Site, Salem, Massachusetts, 12357-12358 [2023-03988]
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additional Indian country NUSA in the
case of states with Indian country
within their borders) for allocation to
certain units that would not otherwise
receive allowance allocations. The
procedures for identifying the eligible
units for each control period and for
allocating allowances from the NUSAs
and Indian country NUSAs to these
units are set forth in the CSAPR trading
program regulations at 40 CFR 97.411(b)
and 97.412 (NOX Annual), 97.511(b) and
97.512 (NOX Ozone Season Group 1),
97.611(b) and 97.612 (SO2 Group 1),
97.711(b) and 97.712 (SO2 Group 2),
97.811(b) and 97.812 (NOX Ozone
Season Group 2), and 97.1011(b) and
97.1012 (NOX Ozone Season Group 3).
Each NUSA allowance allocation
process involves allocations to eligible
units, termed ‘‘new’’ units, followed by
the allocation to ‘‘existing’’ units of any
allowances not allocated to new units.
This notice concerns preliminary
calculations for the NUSA allowance
allocations for the 2022 control periods.
Generally, the allocation procedures call
for each eligible ‘‘new’’ unit to receive
a 2022 NUSA allocation equal to its
2022 control period emissions as
reported under 40 CFR part 75 unless
the total of such allocations to all such
eligible units would exceed the amount
of allowances in the NUSA, in which
case the allocations are reduced on a
pro-rata basis. (EPA notes that, under 40
CFR 97.406(c)(3), 97.506(c)(3),
97.606(c)(3), 97.706(c)(3), 97.806(c)(3),
and 97.1006(c)(3), a unit’s emissions
occuring before its monitor certification
deadline are not considered to have
occurred during a control period and
consequently are not included in the
emission amounts used to determine
NUSA allocations.) Any allowances not
allocated to eligible ‘‘new’’ units are
allocated to the state’s ‘‘existing’’ units
in proportion to such existing units’
previous allocations from the portion of
the respective state’s emissions budget
for the control period that was not
reserved in a NUSA (or Indian country
NUSA).
The detailed unit-by-unit data and
preliminary allowance allocation
calculations for ‘‘new’’ units are set
forth in Excel spreadsheets titled
‘‘CSAPR_NUSA_2022_NOX_Annual_
Prelim_Data_New_Units’’, ‘‘CSAPR_
NUSA_2022_NOX_OS_Prelim_Data_
New_Units’’, and ‘‘CSAPR_NUSA_
2022_SO2_Prelim_Data_New_Units’’,
available on EPA’s website at https://
www.epa.gov/csapr/csapr-allowanceallocations#nusa. Each of the
spreadsheets contains a separate
worksheet for each state covered by that
program showing, for each unit
identified as eligible for a NUSA
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allocation, (1) the unit’s emissions in
the 2022 control period (annual or
ozone season as applicable), (2) the
maximum 2022 NUSA allowance
allocation for which the unit is eligible
(typically the unit’s emissions in the
2022 control period), (3) various
adjustments to the unit’s maximum
allocation if the NUSA pool is
oversubscribed, and (4) the preliminary
calculation of the unit’s 2022 NUSA
allowance allocation.
Each state worksheet for ‘‘new’’ units
also contains a summary showing (1)
the quantity of allowances initially
available in that state’s 2022 NUSA, (2)
the sum of the 2022 NUSA allowance
allocations that will be made to new
units in that state, assuming there are no
corrections to the data, and (3) the
quantity of allowances that would
remain in the 2022 NUSA for allocation
to existing units, again assuming there
are no corrections to the data.
The preliminary calculations of
allocations of the remaining unallocated
allowances to ‘‘existing’’ units are set
forth in Excel spreadsheets titled
‘‘CSAPR_NUSA_2022_NOX_Annual_
Prelim_Data_Existing_Units’’, ‘‘CSAPR_
NUSA_2022_NOX_OS_Prelim_Data_
Existing_Units’’, and ‘‘CSAPR_NUSA_
2022_SO2_Prelim_Data_Existing_
Units’’, available at the same location.
Objections should be strictly limited
to the data and calculations upon which
the NUSA allowance allocations are
based and should be emailed to the
address identified in ADDRESSES.
Objections must include: (1) precise
identification of the specific data and/or
calculations the commenter believes are
inaccurate, (2) new proposed data and/
or calculations upon which the
commenter believes EPA should rely
instead to determine allowance
allocations, and (3) the reasons why
EPA should rely on the commenter’s
proposed data and/or calculations and
not the data referenced in this notice.
EPA notes that an allocation or lack
of allocation of allowances to a given
unit does not constitute a determination
that CSAPR does or does not apply to
the unit. EPA also notes that, under 40
CFR 97.411(c), 97.511(c), 97.611(c),
97.711(c), 97.811(c), and 97.1011(c),
allocations are subject to potential
correction if a unit to which allowances
have been allocated for a given control
period is not actually an affected unit as
of the start of that control period.
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(Authority: 40 CFR 97.411(b), 97.511(b),
97.611(b), 97.711(b), 97.811(b), and
97.1011(b).)
Rona Birnbaum,
Director, Clean Air Markets Division, Office
of Atmospheric Programs, Office of Air and
Radiation.
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AGENCY
[CERCLA–01–2023–0031; FRL–10685–01–
R1]
Proposed CERCLA Administrative
Settlement Agreement and Order on
Consent: City of Salem, Mansell Field
Site, Salem, Massachusetts
Environmental Protection
Agency (EPA).
ACTION: Notice of proposed settlement;
request for public comments.
AGENCY:
Notice is hereby given that
EPA has entered into a proposed
settlement, embodied in an
Administrative Settlement Agreement
and Order on Consent, with the Settling
Party, City of Salem, with respect to the
Mansell Field Site, located in Salem,
Essex County, Massachusetts. The
settlement, which involves a mixed
work and funding agreement with
Salem, includes a proposed compromise
of up to $1.841 million in direct and
indirect EPA costs associated with
EPA’s contribution to the
implementation of a removal action at
the Site, to which this notice applies.
The settlement also resolves Salem’s
liability for work performed and future
response costs. Under the settlement,
Salem will perform part of the removal
action, in coordination with EPA, and as
set forth in the September 8, 2022
Action Memorandum for the Site.
DATES: Comments must be submitted by
March 29, 2023.
ADDRESSES: Comments should be
addressed to Michelle Lauterback,
Senior Enforcement Counsel, U.S.
Environmental Protection Agency, 5
Post Office Square, Suite 100 (ORC 04–
4), Boston, MA 02109–3912, telephone
number (617) 918–1774, email address:
Lauterback.michelle@epa.gov and
should reference the Mansell Field Site,
U.S. EPA Docket No: CERCLA 01–2023–
0031.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: A
copy of the proposed settlement may be
obtained from Stacy Greendlinger,
Superfund and Emergency Management
Division, U.S. Environmental Protection
Agency, Region I, 5 Post Office Square,
SUMMARY:
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Suite 100 (02–2), Boston, MA 02109–
3912, telephone number: (617) 918–
1403, email address:
greendlinger.stacy@epa.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Notice of
this proposed settlement agreement is
made in accordance with section 122(i)
of the Comprehensive Environmental
Response, Compensation, and Liability
Act (CERCLA), 42 U.S.C. 9622(i). This
administrative settlement agreement is
made in accordance with sections 104,
106, 107(a), and 122 of CERCLA, and
includes a compromise of EPA response
costs, under CERCLA sections 107(a)
and the authority of the Attorney
General of the United States to
compromise and settle claims of the
United States with the Settling Party,
City of Salem, concerning the Mansell
Field Site. The proposed settlement,
which involves a mixed work and
funding agreement with the Settling
Party, includes a compromise of up to
$1.841 million in direct and indirect
EPA costs associated with EPA’s
contribution to the implementation of a
removal action at the Site. The
settlement agreement includes a
covenant not to sue pursuant to sections
106 (for the work) and 107(a) (for future
response costs and EPA costs to perform
the work up to the amount of $1.841
million) of CERCLA, 42 U.S.C. 9606 and
9607(a), relating to the Site, and
protection from contribution actions or
claims as provided by sections 113(f)(2)
and 1229h)(4) of CERCLA. Pursuant to
the terms of the proposed settlement,
EPA has reserved its right to recover any
costs incurred to perform the removal
action that are above the amount of
$1.841 million, as well as EPA’s past
costs. The settlement has been approved
by the Environmental and Natural
Resources Division of the United States
Department of Justice.
For 30 days following the date of
publication of this notice, the Agency
will receive written comments relating
solely to the cost compromise
component of the settlement under
CERCLA section 107(a) (the compromise
of up to $1.841 million in direct and
indirect EPA costs associated with
EPA’s contribution to the
implementation of a removal action at
the Site). Section XIV (Payment of
Response Costs) of the settlement
agreement will become effective when
EPA notifies Salem that the public
comment period has closed and that
such comments, if any, do not require
that EPA modify or withdraw from
consent to section XIV (Payment of
Response Costs) of this agreement. The
United States will consider all
comments received and may seek to
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modify or withdraw consent from the
cost compromise contained in the
proposed settlement if comments
received disclose facts or considerations
which indicate that the cost
compromise contained in the settlement
is inappropriate, improper, or
inadequate. The Agency’s response to
any comments received will be available
for public inspection at the
Environmental Protection Agency—
Region I, 5 Post Office Square, Suite
100, Boston, MA 02109–3912.
Meghan Cassidy,
Deputy Director, Superfund and Emergency
Management Division.
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TIME AND DATE: Thursday, March 23rd,
2023 from 2:00pm–3:30 p.m. ET.
PLACE: The meeting will be held
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STATUS: Public Participation: The
meeting will be open to public
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and services in Sub-Saharan Africa.
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Joyce B. Stone,
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2023 from 2:00–3:30 p.m. EDT.
PLACE: The meeting will be held
virtually.
STATUS:
Public Participation: The meeting will
be open to public participation and time
will be allotted for questions or
comments submitted online. Members
of the public may also file written
statements before or after the meeting to
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comments for inclusion in EXIM’s
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Export Credit Competition.
CONTACT PERSON FOR MORE INFORMATION:
For further information, contact India
Walker, External Engagement Specialist,
at 202–480–0062 or at india.walker@
exim.gov.
TIME AND DATE:
Joyce B. Stone,
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[FR Doc No: 2023-03988]
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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
[CERCLA-01-2023-0031; FRL-10685-01-R1]
Proposed CERCLA Administrative Settlement Agreement and Order on
Consent: City of Salem, Mansell Field Site, Salem, Massachusetts
AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
ACTION: Notice of proposed settlement; request for public comments.
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SUMMARY: Notice is hereby given that EPA has entered into a proposed
settlement, embodied in an Administrative Settlement Agreement and
Order on Consent, with the Settling Party, City of Salem, with respect
to the Mansell Field Site, located in Salem, Essex County,
Massachusetts. The settlement, which involves a mixed work and funding
agreement with Salem, includes a proposed compromise of up to $1.841
million in direct and indirect EPA costs associated with EPA's
contribution to the implementation of a removal action at the Site, to
which this notice applies. The settlement also resolves Salem's
liability for work performed and future response costs. Under the
settlement, Salem will perform part of the removal action, in
coordination with EPA, and as set forth in the September 8, 2022 Action
Memorandum for the Site.
DATES: Comments must be submitted by March 29, 2023.
ADDRESSES: Comments should be addressed to Michelle Lauterback, Senior
Enforcement Counsel, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, 5 Post
Office Square, Suite 100 (ORC 04-4), Boston, MA 02109-3912, telephone
number (617) 918-1774, email address: [email protected] and
should reference the Mansell Field Site, U.S. EPA Docket No: CERCLA 01-
2023-0031.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: A copy of the proposed settlement may
be obtained from Stacy Greendlinger, Superfund and Emergency Management
Division, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Region I, 5 Post Office
Square,
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Suite 100 (02-2), Boston, MA 02109-3912, telephone number: (617) 918-
1403, email address: [email protected].
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Notice of this proposed settlement agreement
is made in accordance with section 122(i) of the Comprehensive
Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA), 42
U.S.C. 9622(i). This administrative settlement agreement is made in
accordance with sections 104, 106, 107(a), and 122 of CERCLA, and
includes a compromise of EPA response costs, under CERCLA sections
107(a) and the authority of the Attorney General of the United States
to compromise and settle claims of the United States with the Settling
Party, City of Salem, concerning the Mansell Field Site. The proposed
settlement, which involves a mixed work and funding agreement with the
Settling Party, includes a compromise of up to $1.841 million in direct
and indirect EPA costs associated with EPA's contribution to the
implementation of a removal action at the Site. The settlement
agreement includes a covenant not to sue pursuant to sections 106 (for
the work) and 107(a) (for future response costs and EPA costs to
perform the work up to the amount of $1.841 million) of CERCLA, 42
U.S.C. 9606 and 9607(a), relating to the Site, and protection from
contribution actions or claims as provided by sections 113(f)(2) and
1229h)(4) of CERCLA. Pursuant to the terms of the proposed settlement,
EPA has reserved its right to recover any costs incurred to perform the
removal action that are above the amount of $1.841 million, as well as
EPA's past costs. The settlement has been approved by the Environmental
and Natural Resources Division of the United States Department of
Justice.
For 30 days following the date of publication of this notice, the
Agency will receive written comments relating solely to the cost
compromise component of the settlement under CERCLA section 107(a) (the
compromise of up to $1.841 million in direct and indirect EPA costs
associated with EPA's contribution to the implementation of a removal
action at the Site). Section XIV (Payment of Response Costs) of the
settlement agreement will become effective when EPA notifies Salem that
the public comment period has closed and that such comments, if any, do
not require that EPA modify or withdraw from consent to section XIV
(Payment of Response Costs) of this agreement. The United States will
consider all comments received and may seek to modify or withdraw
consent from the cost compromise contained in the proposed settlement
if comments received disclose facts or considerations which indicate
that the cost compromise contained in the settlement is inappropriate,
improper, or inadequate. The Agency's response to any comments received
will be available for public inspection at the Environmental Protection
Agency--Region I, 5 Post Office Square, Suite 100, Boston, MA 02109-
3912.
Meghan Cassidy,
Deputy Director, Superfund and Emergency Management Division.
[FR Doc. 2023-03988 Filed 2-24-23; 8:45 am]
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