Plating, Inc. Superfund Site--Great Bend, Kansas
Community Involvement Plan
U.S. EPA Region 7, Lenexa, Kansas December 2019
Plating, Inc. Superfund Site
This is EPA’s plan for sharing information with community members during the investigation and cleanup of the Plating, Inc. Site.
In This Plan
Why EPA Created this Plan ...... Page 2 Community Profile ...... Page 3 EPA Invites Your Input How EPA Became Involved ...... Page 3 KDHE and EPA Site Activities ...... Page 4 If you have suggestions for EPA’s Past Community Involvement Activities ...... Page 6 community involvement program, or EPA Community Interview Results ...... Page 7 Community Involvement Goals ...... Page 8 would like more information about the EPA Community Involvement Plan ...... Page 9 Plating, Inc. site, contact
Appendices ...... Page 13 Pamela Houston • A--Key Contacts List Community Involvement Coordinator • B--Description of Superfund Process 1-800-223-0425 or 913-551-7699 • C—Location of Site Information Repository, [email protected] Administrative Record File and Public Meeting Place • D- EJSCREEN Community Involvement Plan December 2019 Plating, Inc. Site
Why EPA Created This Plan
The Superfund process, which is underway at the Plating, Inc. site, includes requirements for community involvement.
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) prepares a community involvement plan (CIP) for every Superfund site. Ideas from residents in site communities help shape these plans. The plan for community involvement for the Plating, Inc. site lays out the approach and activities that EPA, in cooperation with the Kansas Department of Health and Environment (KDHE), will use during EPA’s efforts to assess and address risks related to past industrial and waste management activities. This plan is designed to be flexible. We welcome the community’s input and ideas for improving communication and our involvement with the community.
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The Superfund process includes opportunities for community involvement.
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Community Profile
The city of Great Bend, in the heart of Kansas on the Santa Fe Trail, was named for its location at the big bend in the Arkansas River.
The Plating, Inc. Site, is in the Great Bend Airport/Industrial Park about two miles from downtown Great Bend. Great Bend has a population of about 27,510 people. The city is both the Barton County seat and the retail, service, and medical hub for surrounding Kansas communities and counties. The area around Great Bend is primarily agricultural, with some oil and gas production and associated businesses. The largest employers in Great Bend area are School District #428, Barton County Community College, Central Kansas Medical Center, the City of Great Bend, and Fuller Brush.
Great Bend is known for being the boyhood home of Jack Kilby, who won the Nobel Prize for Physics in 2000 for his invention of the microchip. Other sources of community pride and tourism include the B-29 Memorial Plaza at the Great Bend Industrial Park, which commemorates military airfield operations during and after World War II; Cheyenne Bottoms & Quivira National Wildlife Refuge; and the Kansas Oil & Gas Hall of Fame and Museum.
Great Bend has a Governing Body form of government. The governing body consists of the Mayor, who is elected by the city at large, and eight Council members, two elected from each of the four wards of the city. All governing body members serve two-year terms. The governing body, as the elected representatives of the people, adopts all ordinances and resolutions and determines general goals and policies. Great Bend city services are managed on a day-to-day basis by the city administrator and department heads. The Great Bend governing body meets at 7:30 pm on the first and third Mondays of each month at City Hall, 1209 Williams Street, in Great Bend.
How EPA became Involved at the Plating, Inc. Site
Plating, Inc. began as a chromium plating facility in 1968. In 1975, zinc plating processes were added. Facility operations ended in November 2005.
The Plating, Inc. site consists of the former plating facility, as well as a groundwater plume contaminated with chromium that appears to originate at the facility. The site is located at 8801 West Sixth Street in the Great Bend Airport/Industrial Complex, about one-and-a-half miles west of Great Bend and about two miles north of the Arkansas River. Land surrounding the Airport/Industrial Complex is used mainly for agriculture.
Beginning in the late 1980s, KDHE required Plating Inc. to conduct investigations and take various removal actions to address chromium contamination related to the facility’s operations. Groundwater under the site has been contaminated with chromium. KDHE also identified three public supply wells in Great Bend that were threatened by the contaminated groundwater plume associated with the Plating Inc. site.
In 2005, Plating, Inc. went out of business and this ended their investigations and planning for dealing with the contamination. In 2006, KDHE discovered that several abandoned tanks of plating solution could be leaking and requested EPA’s help to address site issues. Additional
3 Community Involvement Plan December 2019 Plating, Inc. Site assessments were completed. Domestic water supply wells for two businesses were found to be affected. In September 2007, KDHE began providing bottled water to these businesses. In October 2007, EPA, in cooperation with KDHE, removed plating solutions from the abandoned tanks.
September 2007, EPA proposed the Plating, Inc. site be added to the National Priorities List (NPL). The NPL is a list of the nation’s hazardous waste sites with the highest priority for cleanup. NPL sites are eligible for extensive, long-term, funding under the federal Superfund program. The Plating, Inc. site was added to the NPL on March 19, 2008. The Superfund program provides for community involvement, including developing and implementing a site- specific community involvement plan, such as this one for the Plating, Inc. site.
KDHE and EPA Activities for the Plating, Inc. Site
KDHE activities began at the Plating, Inc. site in 1990; EPA activities began in 2007.
1990 : Under KDHE oversight, contaminated soil was excavated at the Plating, Inc. site, and a fume scrubber was installed on the ventilation system to prevent recontamination of the soil.
1998 : Plating, Inc. owner installed a shallow groundwater well to intercept the contaminated groundwater plume before it reached public water supply wells. In 2001, an additional remedial well was installed.
2005: KDHE began operating and maintaining the groundwater interceptor wells.
2007 : EPA used its emergency response authority to remove plating solutions, including chromic acid, muriatic acid, and sulfuric acid. Tanks and drums that contained the plating liquids were cut up and taken offsite for disposal.
2008 : EPA listed Plating, Inc. on the NPL, making it eligible for federal funding for addressing contamination.
2009: The federal Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR) drafted a public health assessment for the site, offered a public comment period on the assessment, conducted two joint public availability sessions with EPA and KDHE, and prepared a final health assessment report.
2009 to 2017: EPA contractors performed field activities including sampling existing monitoring wells and private wells in the Great Bend area, as well as collecting soil samples at former Plating, Inc. facility. The sampling efforts were periodically performed over several years. EPA installed new monitoring wells in various locations in the Great Bend area to support site assessment efforts.
2018: EPA completed remedial investigation efforts to assess the extent to which contamination from the Plating, Inc. site is present and assess possible risks to human health or the environment. The results of the remedial investigation and risk assessment were provided in the Remedial Investigation Report (November 12, 2018).
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Past Community Involvement Activities for Plating, Inc. Site
EPA community involvement activities for the Plating, Inc. site began in 2007.
September 2007 EPA issued a press release to the media announcing that the Plating, Inc. site was proposed for the federal cleanup priorities list. A fact sheet was prepared and mailed, as well as placed on the EPA website: www.epa.gov/superfund/platinginc to announce the proposed listing and public comment period. EPA also published this information in a display ad in the Great Bend Tribune .
October 2007 EPA issued a press release to the media announcing an availability session scheduled at the site to discuss the upcoming cleanup removal action. In addition, a fact sheet about the upcoming removal action was mailed to the site mailing list and placed on the EPA website: www.epa.gov/superfund/platinginc. Area residents and local media representatives attended the availability session, which was held on October 11, 2007.
March 2008 On March 19, 2008, EPA issued a press release to the media announcing that the Plating, Inc. site had been named to the National Priorities List (NPL), making the site eligible for further study and cleanup under the federal Superfund program.
On March 23, 2008, EPA published display style ads in the Great Bend Tribune announcing the site had been added to the NPL and that the Great Bend community could be eligible for funding, under EPA’s Technical Assistance Grant Program, for help for citizens to interpret the complex environmental information associated with EPA’s work at the Plating, Inc. site.
March 2009 On March 10, 2009, EPA, KDHE and Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR) representatives participated in two public availability sessions at The Front Door in Great Bend. These community information meetings included a presentation about Plating, Inc. site activities, as well as opportunities for one-on-one conversations with EPA, KDHE, and ATSDR personnel. ATSDR mailed out fliers announcing the sessions and placed an announcement in the March 8, 2009, edition of the Great Bend Tribune.
July 2009 From July 28 through 30, 2009, EPA conducted community interviews in Great Bend. The purpose of the one-on-one interviews was for EPA representatives to become more familiar with how the Plating, Inc. site has affected the local community, including the concerns and interests of nearby residents and businesses owners, as well as government officials responsible for the general welfare of the community. The informal interviews also gave residents, business owners and local government officials who participated an opportunity to express other environmental and community concerns, as well as meet the EPA project manager handling the Plating, Inc, site investigation. EPA used the responses gathered during the interviews, along with information collected from previous visits to Great Bend, to develop this community involvement plan.
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EPA Community Interview Results
EPA representatives conducted community interviews in and around Great Bend in July 2009 to learn more about the community and its residents, and especially to listen to local interests and concerns related to the Plating, Inc. site.
During the community interviews, EPA talked with Great Bend area residents and business owners, including the Plating, Inc. site owner, as well as others who have facilities near the Plating, Inc. site. EPA also interviewed city and county officials.
High cancer rates in the area and protection for the community from environmental contamination related to former Plating, Inc. operations were the major issues of concern expressed to EPA representatives during community interviews .
Many who were interviewed noted that Barton County has the highest cancer rate in Kansas. Great Bend and Barton County officials noted that past studies indicate the high incidence of cancer may be related to the amount of aerial spraying of pesticides and fertilizers that has taken place over the years. Some residents believe the high cancer rate is linked to waste buried or dumped on the ground during past military/industrial operations in and around the Great Bend Airport.
Among residents interviewed, several believe toxic substances, as well as the open dumping of raw sewage and runoff from World War II operations at what is now the Great Bend Airport, are directly related to water quality and the high cancer rate in the area. One resident suggested EPA sample drainage ditches in and around the Great Bend Airport/Industrial Complex because of the shallow water table under these facilities. Some local officials noted that “most people are concerned, but not worried about the Plating, Inc. site.” However, several people interviewed remember “much leaking” at the Plating, Inc. facility when it was operating, and that whatever leaked, “just went into the ground.”
Private water wells in the area were sampled as part of investigation efforts as encouraged by County Health officials. Water wells at two businesses were found to have concentrations of chromium contaminants above risk levels and were provided bottled drinking water. The EPA also contacted local well drillers to help understand area water quality and groundwater flow as encouraged by County officials.
County officials also asked about what kind of tests EPA would do, and whether EPA would test water samples for bacteria, nitrates, and pesticides. County officials suggested such tests might be done through a cooperative arrangement between EPA and Barton County.
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Additional Community Concerns Expressed in Interviews
Future Use/Sale of Site Property or Nearby Businesses: Some business owners wondered what impact EPA’s involvement at the Plating, Inc. site will have on them. Their comments encompassed in two questions: (1) If they own property near the site, will Superfund activities at the Plating, Inc. site affect their ability to sell their property? (2) Now that Superfund activities are underway at the Plating, Inc. site, when might the Plating, Inc. property be able to be sold?
Community Suggestions for Site Updates: Several community members suggested that EPA post site updates on the following websites: City of Great Bend www.greatbendks.net and Great Bend Chamber of Commerce www.greatbend.org .
Request from Site Owner: Notify Site Owner before EPA Releases Site Updates The site owner and the Great Bend City Manager’s office requested that EPA inform them ahead of the release of site information to the community, so each can be prepared to follow up on community inquiries, including press requests.
Community Involvement Goals
EPA is committed to a meaningful community involvement program for the Plating, Inc. site project.
EPA wants to work in a positive way with local communities and residents. We have taken comments provided by Great Bend and other Barton County citizens into account as we developed goals and this community involvement plan for the Plating, Inc. site. We pledge to work cooperatively with residents, as well as local organizations and agencies, in our efforts to protect public health and the environment. Throughout the cleanup process, we will do our best to tailor our community involvement activities to specific community concerns or requests.
These are EPA’s specific goals for the Plating, Inc. Site Community Involvement Program:
• Give community members useful and timely information about site activities and progress. • Foster open communication, responding to questions and concerns as they arise.
• Be clear about where the public can influence cleanup decisions. • Provide opportunities for public participation, including public comment. • Listen to and consider local input.
• Evaluate how well community involvement activities work, making changes to respond to community needs or interests.
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EPA’s Community Involvement Plan for the Plating, Inc. Site
EPA wants to keep the local community informed about activities and plans for the Plating, Inc. site.
Ideas from residents helped shape this community involvement plan. The plan lays out the approach and activities EPA, in cooperation with the KDHE, will use during site investigation and cleanup activities. EPA is assessing the risks posed by site conditions related to past industrial and waste management activities and, where necessary, will propose steps to reduce risks to human health and the environment. This plan is designed to be flexible. We welcome your input and ideas for improving this plan and our involvement with the community. EPA may revise the community involvement plan for the Plating, Inc. site, as site activities progress or community interests dictate
Community Involvement Activities
EPA, in cooperation with KDHE, will conduct or help support the following community involvement activities:
• Site Mailing List. • Online Information Repository and Administrative Record File. • Fact Sheets
• Press Releases/Public Notices. • Public Meetings/Availability Sessions. • Public Comment Period and Comment Responses.
Site Mailing List
The site mailing list includes federal, state, and local officials who represent the site community; local civic group representatives and the media, as appropriate; and private citizens who have expressed an interest in the site. Persons interested in site activities can have their names added to the mailing list by contacting Mrs. Pamela Houston, EPA Community Involvement Coordinator for the Plating, Inc. site by email at [email protected] or by telephone toll- free at 1-800-223-0425.
Information Repository and Administrative Record File
EPA has assessed the ability of the public to access the information repository through an internet-based repository and has determined that the local community has this ability to access the established internet-based repository for the Plating, Inc. site that can be accessed at the Great Bend Public Library, 1409 Williams Street. The information repository and administrative record file include this plan, site technical and decision documents, and Superfund information. The information repository and administrative record file will be updated as documents are produced in conjunction with site activities.
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Fact Sheets
EPA will prepare and share written updates at key stages of Superfund activities for the Plating, Inc. site to highlight and summarize important site information. We will use clear, non-technical language and graphics, where possible and appropriate, to aid understanding. Fact sheets and updates will include site contacts for more information and will be distributed, as requested, to other interested groups.
Local Officials’ Briefings
At the request of local officials, EPA project personnel will brief local officials on site activities. Briefings would not take the place of a public meeting or availability session but would be by telephone or in informal meetings. This would provide another avenue of support to meet community information needs.
Press Releases/Public Notices
EPA will prepare press releases and public notices during key points of the work underway at the site and notify the community through the local media, including radio and television stations, as well as the Great Bend Tribune . Appendix A contains media contact information. As required by Superfund, EPA will place a public notice (display advertisement) in the most widely read local newspaper ( Great Bend Tribune ) when the Proposed Plan is released to the community. (The Proposed Plan will be EPA’s proposal on what actions to take to reduce risks from the site.) The advertisement will include a brief summary of cleanup alternatives considered for the site; EPA’s recommended alternative; the date, time, and place of a public meeting; dates for a public comment period; and sources to contact for additional information.
Public Meetings/Availability Session s
A public meeting or public availability session will be held to explain major site developments, as required by Superfund or community interest. At these events, EPA will outline site activities and the health and safety measures taken to protect the community during site field events.
Public Comment Period and Comment Responses
Once EPA develops a Proposed Plan, the Agency will disclose the plan to the public and hold a 30-day public comment period, during which time anyone can submit comments on the Proposed Plan. EPA anticipates the release of the Plating, Inc. Proposed Plan and holding of the public comment period in 2020. Comments submitted by the public will be considered by EPA in selecting the most appropriate action(s) to control and reduce risks from the Plating, Inc. site.
Schedule for Site Milestones in the Superfund Process
Investigating and evaluating site environmental conditions, including identifying, selecting and implementing a remedy for problems found, are complex tasks. As a result, the Superfund process generally takes several years to complete. Based on current information, EPA, in
10 Community Involvement Plan December 2019 Plating, Inc. Site cooperation with KDHE, anticipates upcoming milestones in the Superfund process at the Plating, Inc. site will occur as follows:
• Final Feasibility Study (FS) Report Winter 2019
• Draft Proposed Plan Winter/Spring 2020 • Final Proposed Plan Spring 2020 • Public Comment Period Spring 2020 • Draft Record of Decision (ROD) Summer 2020
• Final ROD Fall 2020
At the beginning of the Remedial Investigation/Feasibility Study (RI/FS) process, EPA conducted community interviews and set up an internet-based information repository. The development of this community involvement plan will help lay out the approach and activities that EPA, in cooperation with the KDHE will use during EPA’s efforts to assess and address risks related to past industrial and waste management activities.
Now that the RI/FS process is completed, EPA will issue a Proposed Plan for cleanup of the Plating, Inc. site. EPA anticipates release of the Proposed Plan in 2020 .
EPA will provide a copy of this plan in the internet-based repository that can be accessed at the following website: www.epa.gov/superfund/platinginc . In addition, EPA will seek to involve the community in the following ways:
• Hold a 30-day public comment period and will address comments received on the plan. • Hold a public meeting during the comment period to share information and address citizen questions or comments about the information in the RI/FS reports and Proposed Plan. • Prepare a display advertisement summarizing the Proposed Plan and publish it in the Great Bend Tribune . The ad will announce release of the Proposed Plan and highlight alternatives evaluated for the site, the recommended alternative, and dates for the public meeting and public comment period .
EPA expects to sign a Record of Decision, outlining the cleanup plan, for the Plating Inc. site in late 2020.
As Superfund activities take place at the Plating, Inc. site, EPA will continue to monitor and adjust community involvement activities to respond to community information requests or changing site conditions.
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For More Information on the Plating, Inc. Site
EPA Contacts
Pam el a Houston Clint Sperry
Community Involvement Coordinator Remedial Project Manager USEPA Region 7 USEPA Region 7 11201 Renner Boulevard 11201 Renner Boulevard Mail Code: OPA Mail Code: SEMD/REMB Lenexa, KS 66219 Lenexa, KS 66219
Telephone: 1-800-223-0425 Telephone: 913-551-7157 or email: [email protected] 1-800-223-0425 email: [email protected]
KDHE Contacts
Sean Hammersburg Austin Clapp
Project Manager Program Manager Kansas Department of Health and Kansas Department of Health and Environment Environment Bureau of Environmental Remediation Bureau of Environmental Remediation 1000 S.W. Jackson 1000 S.W. Jackson Topeka, KS 66612 Topeka, KS 66612
Telephone: 785-291-3089 Telephone: 785-296-5531 Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected]
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Appendix A Key Contacts List
Federal Elected Officials Wichita Office 7701 E. Kellogg, Suite 510 The Honorable Ron Estes Wichita, KS 67207 1524 Longworth House Office Building Phone: (316) 262-8992 District of Columbia, 20515 www.estes.house.gov
The Honorable Pat Roberts Wichita Office 109 Hart Senate Office Building 155 North Market St., #1120 District of Columbia, 20510-1605 Wichita, KS 67202 www.roberts.senate.gov Phone: (316) 263-0416
The Honorable Jerry Moran Wichita Office Dirksen Senate Office Building 100 North Broadway Room 521 Suite 210 District of Columbia, 20510-1605 Wichita, KS 67202 www.jerrymoran.house.gov Phone: (316) 269-9259
State Elected Officials
The Honorable Laura Kelly Office of the Governor 300 S.W. 10 th Street Topeka, KS 66612-1590
Mary Jo Taylor Tory Marie Arnberger Senate District 33 Senate District 112 Kansas State Capitol Building Kansas State Capitol Building 300 SW 10 th Street 300 SW 10 th Street Room 441-E Room 352-S Topeka, KS 66612-1504 Topeka, KS 66612-1504
[email protected] [email protected]
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State Agency Officials: KDHE
Joseph Dom Maggie Thompson Project Manager Director of Communications, Kansas Kansas Department of Health and Environment, Department of Health and Environment Bureau of Environmental Remediation 1000 S.W. Jackson St. 1000 S.W. Jackson St., Suite 410 Topeka, KS 66612 Topeka, KS 66612 Telephone: 785-296-5795 Telephone: 785-296-1914 Fax: 785-368-6368 Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected]
Local Officials
City of Great Bend Officials (Elected Officials)
Mayor Joe Andrasek Jolene Biggs , Second Ward Council Cory Urban , Third Ward Jessica Milsap, First Ward Dana Dawson , Third Ward Dan Heath, First Ward Andrew Erb , Fourth Ward Barry Bowers, Second Ward Brock McPherson , Fourth Ward
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Other City Officials Laurie Bard Kendal Francis Public Works Director City Administrator 620-793-4111 (office) 620-793-4111 (office) [email protected] [email protected] Michael Bader Christina Hayes Utilities Superintendent Community Coordinator 620-793-4170 620-793-4111 (office) [email protected] [email protected] Randy Keasling Bob Suelter Human Resource Director City Attorney 620-793-4111 (office) 620-793-4111 (office) [email protected] [email protected]
Martin Miller Airport Manager 620-792-9446 (cell) [email protected]
Mailing Address and Phone Number for Great Bend officials 1209 Williams Great Bend, KS 67530 Phone: 620-793-4111
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Barton County Officials
County Administrator: Phil Hathcock , [email protected]
Telephone: 620-793-1800 Address: Barton County Administrator’s Office 1400 Main, Room 107, Great Bend, KS 67530
County Commissioners: Kenny Schremmer , District 1, [email protected] Homer Kruckenberg , District 2, [email protected] Don Davis , District 3, [email protected] Jim Daily , District 4, [email protected] Jennifer Schartz , District 5, [email protected]
Telephone: 620-793-1800 Address: Barton County Commission Chambers 1400 Main, Room 106, Great Bend, KS 67530
County Engineer: Barry McManaman, [email protected]
Telephone: 620-793-1808 Address: Barton County Engineering 1400 Main, Room 108, Great Bend, KS 67530
County Health Department Director: Shelly Schneider, [email protected]
Telephone: 620-793-1902 Address: Barton County Health Department, 1300 Kansas Ave Great Bend, KS 67530
County Environmental Manager: Judy Goreham , [email protected]
Telephone: 1-866-664-2065; 620-796-4300 Address: Barton County Environmental Management, Barton County Annex, 1910 18 th Street., Great Bend, KS 67530
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Local Media KSAS-TV (FOX) --Wichita Contact: Carly Willis Newspapers * carly.willis @ksn .com Phone: 316-942-2424 Great Bend Tribune Contact: Dale Hogg KAKE-TV (ABC) --Wichita Phone: 620-792-1211 Contact: Mike Rajewski [email protected] News Phone: 316-943-4221 [email protected] Hutchison News Contact: Cheyenne Derksen Schroeder Radio Stations Phone: 620-694-5700 [email protected] KBGL-FM 106.9 oldies KHOK-FM 100.7 country Wichita Eagle KVGB-AM 1590 talk, news, sports Contact: Michael Roehrman KVGB-FM 104.3 classic rock Phone: 316-269-6753 Phone: 620-792-3647 mroehrman @wichitaeagle.com KNNS-AM 1510 oldies Hays Daily News Phone: 620-792-7108 Contact: Mary Karst Phone: 785-628-1081 KSOB-96.7 FM country [email protected] Phone: 620-792-7108
TV Stations KZRS-FM 107.9 Old School Phone: 620.792.7108 KSN-TV (NBC)--Wichita Rachel Sommerfeld, news director, [email protected] news phone: 316-292-1195 rachel.sommerfeld @ksn.com
KWCH-TV (CBS)--Wichita Kim Wilhelm, news director, news @kwch.com news phone: 316-831-6130
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Appendix B
Site Activities follow Superfund Process
During community interviews in July 2009, several residents asked about the process being used for the environmental investigation at the Plating, Inc. site. Residents also wanted to know how long the process would take. Although conditions vary from site to site and the length of time to implement the Superfund process varies, the following information is a general description of the process being used at the Plating, Inc. site and the approximate time it takes to complete the process.
Description of Superfund Process
The environmental investigation at the Plating, Inc. site is following the Superfund process under the authority of the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA). The Superfund process is complex and focuses on long-term cleanup of former or abandoned areas that generated hazardous waste. The blueprint for the Superfund process is presented in the National Oil and Hazardous Substances Pollution Contingency Plan (NCP), a regulation that applies to all federal agencies involved in responding to hazardous substance releases.
The Superfund process, as it is being applied at the Plating, Inc. site, has eight major steps:
(1) Site Identification. (2) Preliminary Assessment/Site Inspection. (3) Hazard Ranking System score. (4) Remedial Investigation/Feasibility Study (underway now at the Plating, Inc. site). (5) Record of Decision. (6) Remedial Design/Remedial Action. (7) Construction Completion. (8) Post Construction Completion.
The NCP also gives EPA the authority to require potentially responsible parties to address site conditions, ensure community involvement, involve States, and ensure long-term protectiveness.
For more than 20 years, EPA has located and analyzed tens of thousands of hazardous waste sites, protected people and the environment from contamination at the worst sites and involved others in cleanup. More information is available at www.epa.gov
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Appendix C
Location of Site Information Repository, Administrative Record File, and Public Meeting Place for the Plating, Inc. Site
Site Information Repository
• Great Bend Public Library 1409 Williams Street Great Bend, KS 67530 www.greatbendpl.info
Telephone: 620-792-2409 Email: [email protected]
Administrative Record File www.epa.gov/superfund/platinginc
• Superfund Records Center 11201 Renner Boulevard Lenexa, KS 66219 Mail Stop SEMD
Public Meeting Place
• Front Door Community Center 1615 Tenth Street Great Bend, KS 67530
Telephone: (620) 793-4100
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Munic G Dundee SW 50 Rd SE SO Rd I November 20, 20 19 1:144,448 1.2 5 25 8 k m SoXIIOH E wtAICIUl CS. USGS. t.GA. N'ISA.. CG..-,fl NROl)t5on., ,t,,[%AS. N.. S. OS, NMA, GeoeDtwy.,un, Rllsw.--l, GSA, Geoano, ff ~'JI, . ntl'lfllp'ilnd.,tGlSu~o::mmU'\t y Sites reporting to EPA Superfund NPL 1 Hazardous Waste Treatment, Storage, and Disposal Facilities (TSDF) 0 November 20, 2019 2/3 21 Community Involvement Plan December 2019 Plating, Inc. Site EJSCREEN Report (Version 2019) ft En A United States 0 r"" ~~~mental Protection 1 miles Ring around the Area, KANSAS, EPA Region 7 Approximate Population: 4,795 Input Area (sq. miles): 20.67 Plating Inc Value EPA %ile in %ile- State %ile in USA Selected Variables Region EPA in Avg. State Avg. Avg. Region USA Environmental Indicators Particulate Matter (PM 2.5 in µg/m3) 5.96 7.23 9 7.77 4 8.3 6 Ozone (ppb) 44.3 43.6 68 42.5 76 43 54 NATA* Diesel PM (µg/m3) 0.193 0.329 29 0.367 <50th 0.479 <50th NATA* Cancer Risk (lifetime risk per million) 21 27 10 27 <50th 32 <50th NATA* Respiratory Hazard Index 0.27 0.37 9 0.36 <50th 0.44 <50th Traffic Proximity and Volume (daily traffic 230 290 65 330 65 750 51 count/distance to road) Lead Paint Indicator (% Pre-1960 Housing) 0.31 0.35 51 0.34 53 0.28 62 Superfund Proximity (site count/km distance) 0.24 0.079 94 0.1 92 0.13 88 RMP Proximity (facility count/km distance) 0.51 0.98 44 0.94 51 0.74 60 Hazardous Waste Proximity (facility count/km distance) 0.022 0.82 7 0.8 3 4 1 Wastewater Discharge Indicator 0.014 0.57 72 0.97 81 14 81 (toxicity-weighted concentration/m distance) Demographic Indicators Demographic Index 26% 27% 58 26% 63 36% 43 Minority Population 18% 24% 54 19% 65 39% 35 Low Income Population 34% 31% 59 32% 58 33% 56 Linguistically Isolated Population 1% 2% 65 2% 74 4% 52 Population with Less Than High School Education 12% 9% 71 10% 69 13% 57 Population under 5 years of age 7% 7% 60 6% 65 6% 66 Population over 64 years of age 16% 15% 61 15% 58 15% 63 * The National-Scale Air Toxics Assessment (NATA) is EPA's ongoing, comprehensive evaluation of air toxics in the United States. EPA developed the NATA to prioritize air toxics, emission sources, and locations of interest for further study. It is important to remember that NATA provides broad estimates of health risks over geographic areas of the country, not definitive risks to specific individuals or locations. More information on the NATA analysis can be found at: https://www.epa.gov/national-air-toxics-assessment. For additional information, see: www.epa.gov/environmentaljustice EJSCREEN is a screening tool for pre-decisional use only. It can help identify areas that may warrant additional consideration, analysis, or outreach. It does not provide a basis for decision-making, but it may help identify potential areas of EJ concern. Users should keep in mind that screening tools are subject to substantial uncertainty in their demographic and environmental data, particularly when looking at small geographic areas. Important caveats and uncertainties apply to this screening-level information, so it is essential to understand the limitations on appropriate interpretations and applications of these indicators. Please see EJSCREEN documentation for discussion of these issues before using reports. This screening tool does not provide data on every environmental impact and demographic factor that may be relevant to a particular location. EJSCREEN outputs should be supplemented with additional information and local knowledge before taking any action to address potential EJ concerns. November 20, 2019 3/3 22