2.2.1 Anticipated Activities
Planned removal activities on-site included:
a) Developing and implementing a site-specific Health and Safety Plan, including an Air Monitoring Plan, and a site Emergency Contingency Plan;
b) Developing and implementing a Site Work Plan that includes a Site Security Plan;
c) Securing, characterizing, and sampling known and suspected hazardous substances, contained or uncontained, at the site;
d) Consolidating and packaging hazardous substances, pollutants and contaminants for transportation and off-site disposal;
e) Decontaminating contaminated structures as necessary;
f) Transporting and disposing of all characterized or identified hazardous substances, pollutants, wastes, or contaminants that pose a substantial threat of release (except NORM) at a Resource Conservation and Recovery Act/CERCLA-approved disposal facility in accordance with EPA’s Off-site Rule (40 C.F.R. § 300.440), as applicable;
g) Removing and reusing or disposing of NORM in accordance with CERCLA and with all applicable state regulations; and
h) Taking any other response actions to address any release or threatened release of a hazardous substance, pollutant and contaminant that the U.S. EPA OSC determines may pose an imminent and substantial endangerment to the public health or the environment.
Additional planned site activities, if needed, included security, perimeter air monitoring, and decontamination on the site, as needed to complete the removal action.
2.2.1.1 Planned Response Activities
Please see above.
2.2.1.2 Next Steps
EPA demobilized from the site on 3/7/14. Over the next several weeks, while off-site, we will evaluate options to address the underground storage tank next to the wooden outbuilding; and evaluate options to address the contaminated soil that was found under the piles of metal shavings that we removed.
Keys
to the buildings and the gate have been left with the Ashtabula Fire Chief, and
OEPA in case of emergency.
2.2.2 Issues
None.
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