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1. Introduction
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1.1 Background
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Removal Action |
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4/21/2010 |
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4/21/2010 |
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1.1.1 Incident Category
Emergency Response to contain and mitigate asbestos contamination.
1.1.2 Site Description
The Liberty Fibers Site is a former 350 acre rayon production facility previously operated by BASF until the mid 1990's. Since the mid 1990's, this facility operated as Lenzig Fibers and as Liberty Fibers until declaring bancruptcy. The facility was then purchased by Lowland Industries which operated a metal recycling business on site. During this period, several production buildings were demolished resulting in numerous debris piles containing friable asbestos.
1.1.2.1 Location
The site is located along Enka Road approximately one mile south of Interstate 81 in Morristown, Tenn (exit 12).
1.1.2.2 Description of Threat
During apparent recycling activities on April 19th, a debris pile along the southern perimeter caught fire resulting in the Morristown Fire Dept responding. In order to minimize such future events, and to minimize the chance of asbestos exposure, the OSC elected to serve the owner with a Notice of Federal Interest in order to initiate site containment and mitigation measures. The site contains numerous construction debris piles with large quantities of friable asbestos.
1.1.3 Preliminary Removal Assessment/Removal Site Inspection Results
Concurrent to the April 19th fire and recent activities on site, the OSC requested that Reg 4 Technical Services Branch evaluate asbestos sampling conducted in Jan 2010 to determine if a threat to human health and the environment existed on site. A draft memo from Technical Services completed on April 21st indicates that such a threat does exist.
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2. Current Activities
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2.1 Operations Section
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2.1.1 Narrative
Throughout May 2010, ERRs contractors initially established a hot zone perimeter around the obvious areas of demolition and debris piles in order to gain some control over potential friable asbestos areas. This former rayon plant has several areas where subsurface structures, manholes and sewer sytems were established presumably to run cooling and disharge water from production areas. ERRs were initially tasked with marking those subsurface structures for safety purposes.
ERRs contractors then established a decontamination zone outside the perimeter and arranged to run a temporary waterline from Enka Road (aprox 100yds) to the decon trailer. The primary threat driving this removal action is the presence of friable asbestos, therefore our next step was to begin applying a "lock down agent" to the debris piles containing friable asbestos utilizing Level C protection. The vast majority of friable asbestos on site is centered around the former powerhouse and debris piles along the northern third (approx 100 acres) of the site. ERRs contractors have estimated that the site contains 0.5 million cubic yards of asbestos contaminated building debris.
2.1.3 Enforcement Activities, Identity of Potentially Responsible Parties (PRPs)
The OSC continues to coordinate enforcement issues with EPA's Kevin Beswick and EPA Enforcements Karen Coleman.
2.1.4 Progress Metrics
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2.2 Planning Section
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2.3 Logistics Section
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2.4 Finance Section
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2.5 Other Command Staff
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2.5.1 Safety Officer
2.6 Liaison Officer
2.7 Information Officer
2.7.1 Public Information Officer
2.7.2 Community Involvement Coordinator
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3. Participating Entities
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3.1 Unified Command
3.2 Cooperating Agencies
The OSC notified Morristown Tenn city officials and TDEC of EPA's planned activities.
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4. Personnel On Site
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5. Definition of Terms
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6. Additional sources of information
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7. Situational Reference Materials
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