Environmental Protection Agency September 25, 2012 – Federal Register Recent Federal Regulation Documents

In accordance with Section 122 (h) of the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980, as amended (``CERCLA''), notice is hereby given of a proposed administrative settlement for recovery of past response costs concerning the Buckbee-Mears Co. Superfund Site located in Cortland, Cortland County, New York, (the ``Site'') with the State Bank of India, New York Branch (the ``Bank''). Pursuant to the settlement EPA will receive: (1) All funds in an escrow account with accrued interest (approximately $116,500); (2) Twenty-five percent of any funds the Bank collects from the principals of International Electron Devices (USA), LLC, the current owner and past operator of the Site at the time of disposal; and (3) A share of the proceeds from the sale of two parcels of land within the Site (``Properties'') following the Bank's foreclosure sale and distribution of certain amounts to the City of Cortland (``City'') and Cortland County (``County'') in settlement of their respective tax liens. The sales proceeds shall be distributed as follows: (a) The Bank will pay to the City the greater of $302,881 or 15% after the Bank is paid $150,000 attributable to the costs of marketing and selling the Properties; (b) The Bank will pay to the County $2,120; and (c) Any proceeds from the foreclosure sale remaining after the above payments will be distributed in proportion to the following lien amounts: (1) For EPA, $8,323.204; (2) for the Bank, $8,434,911; (3) for the City, $1,199,043 minus the greater of $302,881 or fifteen percent (15%) of the proceeds from the sale of the Properties. The settlement also includes a covenant not to sue the settling party pursuant to Sections 106 and 107(a) of CERCLA, for Existing Contamination, as defined in the settlement, at 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.

EPA is approving submittals from the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania pursuant to the Clean Air Act (CAA). Whenever new or revised National Ambient Air Quality Standards (NAAQS) are promulgated, the CAA requires states to submit a plan for the implementation, maintenance and enforcement of such NAAQS. The plan is required to address basic program elements including, but not limited to, regulatory structure, monitoring, modeling, legal authority, and adequate resources necessary to assure attainment and maintenance of the standards. These elements are referred to as infrastructure requirements. Pennsylvania has made submittals addressing the infrastructure requirements for the 1997 8-hour ozone and fine particulate matter (PM2.5) NAAQS and the 2006 PM2.5 NAAQS. This action approves those submittals, or portions thereof.

EPA is approving a state implementation plan revision submitted by the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality to address the moderate area PM10 (particulate matter with an aerodynamic diameter of less than or equal to a nominal ten micrometers) planning requirements for the Nogales nonattainment area. Consistent with this final action, EPA is approving the following plan elements as meeting the requirements of the Clean Air Act: The Nogales nonattainment area 2008 and 2011 emission inventories; the demonstration that the Nogales nonattainment area is attaining the National Ambient Air Quality Standard for PM10, but for international emissions sources in Nogales, Mexico; the demonstration that reasonably available control measures sufficient to meet the standard have been implemented in the nonattainment area; the reasonable further progress demonstration; the demonstration that implementation of measures beyond those needed for attainment meet the contingency measure requirement; and, the motor vehicle emissions budget for the purposes of determining the conformity of transportation plans, programs, and projects with this PM10 plan.