EPA Extends Public Comment Period on Cleanup Plan for Lower Ley Creek Portion of Onondaga Lake Superfund Site Located in Town of Salina, New York

EPA Press Release:

EPA Extends Public Comment Period on Cleanup Plan for

Lower Ley Creek Portion of Onondaga Lake Superfund Site

Located in Town of Salina, New York

Contact Information: Larisa Romanowski, (518) 747-4389, romanowski.larisa@epa.gov

(New York, N.Y. – August 11, 2014) The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has extended the public comment period for its plan to address contamination in the Lower Ley Creek area of the Onondaga Lake Superfund site to September 13, 2014. The comment period on theproposed plan to clean up contaminated soil and sediment at the Lower Ley Creek portion of the Onondaga Lake Superfund site in the Town of Salina, New York was originally set to end on August 14, 2014.

Discharges from nearby industries and a landfill contaminated the soil and sediment with polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) and other hazardous substances. PCBs are potentially cancer-causing chemicals that can build up in the tissue of fish and other wildlife and pose a threat to people who eat them. The EPA proposal calls for a combination of excavation, capping and disposal of contaminated soil and sediment.

The EPA held a public meeting in the town of Salina on July 29, 2014 to explain the proposed plan and is extending the comment period in order to provide people more time to provide input.

Written comments may be mailed (postmarked by September 13), faxed or emailed to:

Pamela Tames, P.E., Remedial Project Manager

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency – Region 2

290 Broadway, 20^th Floor

New York, N.Y. 10007-1866

fax: (212) 637-3966

email: tames.pam@epa.gov

More information about the Onondaga Lake Superfund Site can be found athttp://www.epa.gov/r02earth/superfund/npl/onondagalake/index.html.

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