United States Environmental Protection Agency
Region III
POLLUTION REPORT



Date:
Monday, March 5, 2007
From:
Jack Downie

To:
Daniel Taylor, EPA
RRC RRC, EPA
Mariruth Hoffman, PA DEP
Bryan Werner, PA DEP BRP

Subject: 

PRP Activity Oversight
Remacor, Inc.
P.O. Box 366, West Pittsburg, PA
Latitude: 40.9349711
Longitude: -80.3686583


POLREP No.:
13
Site #:
G3GM
Reporting Period:
3/5/2007
D.O. #:
03-04-015
Start Date:
9/15/2006
Response Authority:
CERCLA
Mob Date:
9/15/2006
Response Type:
Emergency
Demob Date:
 
NPL Status:
Non NPL
Completion Date:
 
Incident Category:
Removal Action
CERCLIS ID #:
PAD074965096
Contract #
RCRIS ID #:
 

Site Description

EPA continues to provide 24-hour security and coordinate the activities of PRP generators who supplied Remacor, Inc. with secondary magnesium scrap including turnings, shavings, chips and other finely divided cuttings.  In all, 29 generators have been identified and issued 104e letters.  Several of the companies are in the process of voluntarily removing their materials from the Site under the oversight of EPA and PADEP who control access to the Site.  The 45-acre property contains thousands of drums, sacks, boxes and other containers of this flammable solid, many of which are in poor storage conditions.  Generators are subcontracting companies to assist them with identifying, moving, re-packaging, and loading their materials for transportation to other facilities for proper storage, recycling, or disposal.  

Current activities involve Meridian’s and Spartan Light Metal Products’s subcontractors repackaging and removing product from the site.


Current Activities

Personnel On-Scene:
3/05/07 EPA-1, START-2, URS-5, Labor Ready-1, Other-2, Security-1 (24hr)

Weather:
3/05/07 Light snow, Temps in upper 20’s, Winds from WNW at 15 mph.

On Saturday and Sunday, 3/3/07 – 3/4/07, no onsite work was conducted.

START mobilized to the Site to continue oversight of PRP removal operations.  START attended the morning safety meeting held by URS, Meridian’s subcontractor.

Labor Ready,  Spartan Light Metal Products’s subcontractor, met a forklift mechanic onsite.  The mechanic repaired the brakes on a forklift to be used for packaging efforts by Labor Ready.

URS continued to repackage Meridian’s product from supersacks into 55-gallon drums.  Meridian subcontracted trucking services through Schmitt Trucking.  One truck from Schmitt Trucking arrived on site which was loaded with 26 pallets (approximately 18,200 lbs) of material.  The load departed the site and was transported to Magpro, a recycler, located in Camden, TN.


Planned Removal Actions

Meridian anticipates removing all supersacks from four rental trailers.  Supersacks are to be staged in Building 7 for repackaging into 55 gallon drums.

Meridian anticipates loading out additional trucks this week.

Labor Ready anticipates loading boxes of scrap magnesium flashing on 03/06/07.


Next Steps

The OSC anticipates Pratt & Whitney preparing for the removal of their product from the site.


Estimated Costs *
  Budgeted Total To Date Remaining % Remaining
Extramural Costs
ERRS - Cleanup Contractor $350,000.00 $141,277.00 $208,723.00 59.64%
RST/START $150,000.00 $944.00 $149,056.00 99.37%
Intramural Costs
 
Total Site Costs $500,000.00 $142,221.00 $357,779.00 71.56%

* The above accounting of expenditures is an estimate based on figures known to the OSC at the time this report was written. The OSC does not necessarily receive specific figures on final payments made to any contractor(s). Other financial data which the OSC must rely upon may not be entirely up-to-date. The cost accounting provided in this report does not necessarily represent an exact monetary figure which the government may include in any claim for cost recovery.


response.epa.gov/remacor

POLREP #13 Last Updated 9/20/2007