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DEPARTMENT OF                          Date:  March 27, 2012
ECOLOGY     Port ofSeattle Terminal 91 Site
State of Washington

Hazardous Waste and Toxics Reduction Program          January 2012 
Agreed Order for the Cleanup    Comments Accepted
Action                  January 20 - March 5, 2012
Submit Comments and Technical
Questions to:
The purpose of this fact sheet is to inform you about the
Galen Tritt - Site Manager
planned cleanup of a former tank farm and other areas at the
Department of Ecology
Port of Seattle's Terminal 91 Site. This Site is located at      1440 10'h Street Suite 102
2001 West Gareld Street, Seattle, WA.                Bellingham, WA 98225
Phone: (360) 715-5232
Fax: (360) 715-5225
The Department of Ecology (Ecology) and the Port of Seattle   E-mail: galen.tritt@ecy.wa.gov
(Port) will enter into an Agreed Order to clean up the Site.
Under the Agreed Order, the Port will complete the Cleanup   Document Review Locations
Action Plan tasks, including installation of remedial systems    Seattle Public Library - Central
and compliance monitoring. The Port will also address       1000 Fourth Avenue
Seattle, WA 98104
contamination in the Upland Area of the Terminal 91
(206) 386-4636
Facility.
Seattle Public Library  Magnolia
Publlc Comment Invlted                  Branch
2801 34''1 Avenue w
You are invited to review and comment on the:            Seattle, WA 98199
(206) 386-4225
o  Agreed Order

0  Modied Dangerous Waste Management (Dangerous
Port of Seattle  Pier 69
Waste) Permit                             2711 Alaskan Way
Seattle, WA 98121
Send your comments to Ecology for consideration.         (206) 787-3414
Comments will be accepted January 20 through March 5,
2012.                                     Department of Ecology
Northwest Regional Office
3190 160'h Ave SE
To receive more information, please contact Galen Tritt at     Bellevue, WA 98008
galen.tritt@ecy.wa.gov or (3 60) 715-5232 and ask to be
Call for an appointment: Sally Perkins
added to the mailing list. If responding by email, please put
Phone: (425) 649-7190
Port of Seattle Terminal 91mai1ing list in the subject line.      Fax: (425) 649-4450
E-mail: sally.perkins@ecy.wa.gov
Modlflcatlon of the Dangerous Waste Permlt
Hours: Tuesday  Thursday
Enforcement of the US. Environmental Protection Agency's       8:00 am  12:00 pm
1:00 pm 4:30 pm
(EPA) Hazardous Waste requirements is delegated to
Ecology. Ecology's regulations require the Port, as land      Ecology's Toxics Cleanup Website:
owner, to maintain a Dangerous Waste permit for this Site       https://fortress.wa.gov/ecy/gsp/
until corrective action is completed, even though the             Sitepage.aspx?csid=2674
Burlington Environmental Inc. (BEI) permitted waste            Cleanup ID #: 2674
treatment and storage facility ceased operations in 1995.            Facility ID#: 24768


Publication Number. 12-09-163                 1

Hazardous Waste and Toxics Reduction Program

This Dangerous Waste permit species that      0  A Restrictive Covenant will be placed on
the Port (as permittee) will perform the            the property. The restrictive covenant
corrective actions referenced in the Agreed         will limit exposures to hazardous
Order. The modication is necessary to          substances by regulating land uses on the
update the permit that took effect in 2010.          property and providing notice to future
The new Agreed Order will be incorporated        users as to the presence of hazardous
into the permit, and the permit will terminate        substances.
the 2010 Agreed Order since those conditions
have been fullled or will be replaced by the      Updated Publlc Partlclpatlon Plan
new Agreed Order.
' An updated version of the Public
Participation Plan is now available for public
Agreed Order
review and comment. The Public
The Agreed Order requires the Port to         Participation Plan is designed to promote
implement the Cleanup Action Plan for the      meaningful community involvement during
Tank Farm Affected Area. The Port also is      the cleanup process. The plan outlines and
required to address contamination in the        describes the tools and approaches that
Upland Area of the Terminal 91 Facility.        Ecology will use to inform the public about
site activities, and it identies opportunities
In this Agreed Order, the Port will complete      for the community to become involved in
the work that was proposed in the 2010         this process.
Agreed Order. That work includes
construction of a permanent barrier to prevent     Slte Background
migration of contamination to Elliott Bay.
The former tank farm at this Site was

The Port agrees to complete the following:       operated by Philip Services Corp. as a
permitted dangerous waste treatment and
o  Pre-design work as dened in the Data
storage facility, and by other Port tenants as a
Gaps Investigation Work Plan.
fuel storage and distribution tank farm.
0  The Engineering Design, to be completed
in three stages:
The chemicals of concern for subsurface soil
1.  Design Basis Memorandum
and groundwater at the site include:
2. Draft Engineering Design Report
Diesel-range petroleum hydrocarbons.
3. Final Engineering Design Report
Gasoline-range petroleum hydrocarbons.
0  Installation of remedial actions described
in the Cleanup Action Plan.                Heavy-oilrange petroleum hydrocarbons.
Metals.
0  Operation and maintenance of installed
remediation systems.                    Polychlorinated biphenyls.
Semivolatile organic compounds,
0  Compliance monitoring after construction
is completed.                          including polycyclic aromatic
hydrocarbons.
0  Investigation and cleanup of Discrete
0  Volatile organic compounds.
Units in the Upland, which are not
included in the Tank Farm Affected Area
Cleanup Action Plan.

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Hazardous Waste and Toxics Reduction Program

The property is located in an industrial area      connection with King County's need to
in the Interbay neighborhood of Seattle. It       construct an underground combined sewage
was operated by various oil companies from     overow storage vault ("CSO Project") on
1926 until 1941 when the US. Navy took       the Port's parcel (shown on the figure as the
possession. The Port acquired the facility in      West Yard). The land exchange will not
the 1970s, and the tank farm was operated by     affect the cleanup plans but would change
Philip Services Corp. and its predecessors       the boundary of the land subject to the
from that time until 1995. The tank farm was    Agreed Order.
also operated by various marine fuel
marketing companies until 2003. The tank      For more Informatlon about the cso
farmwas demolished by the Port in 2005.       Project:
wwwkingcounty.gov/environment/wtd/
Construction/Seattle/SMagnoliaCSOStorage.
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uncontaminated land at T91 with a parcel of
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Port of Seattle Terminal 91 Site
What can you do?
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Ecology See-ks Public Comments on the Agreed Order for the            Read about the cleanup in this
Cleanup ActIon                                       handout.

To get more detailed information,
Public Comment Period: January 20  March 5, 2012                reVIGW the Upp9rt|ng _d00[1ment8
' at the locations listed In this
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Cleanup ID #: 2674
Facmty ID #3 24768                                 Write down your comments and
questions. Send them to the
Department of Ecology at the
address provided in this
document.
Ifyou need this document in a format for the visually impaired, call
We appreciate your comments
Nancy Lui at (425) 649-7117. Persons with hearing loss can call
and concerns. Thank you.
711 for Washington Relay Sen/ice. Persons with a speech disability
can call (877) 833-6341.