2018 CPEO Brownfields List Archive

From: Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>
Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2018 20:06:49 -0800 (PST)
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Subject: [CPEO-BIF] "{City seeks liability protections at Majestic site, " Hot Springs, Arkansas
 
City seeks liability protections at Majestic site

By David Showers
Hot Springs Sentinel-Record (AR)
January 13, 2018 

With the extent and location of contamination at the Majestic Hotel site identified, the city is working to shield itself from liabilities it inherited from the property’s previous owners.

The implementing agreement with the Arkansas Department of Environmental Quality the Hot Springs Board of Directors will consider as part of its consent agenda Tuesday night initiates the process, obligating the city to remediate the environmental conditions specified in the comprehensive site assessment the department approved in November.

The certificate of completion the department issues at the end of the process will release the city from liability for contamination that occurred prior to its September 2015 acquisition of the property from Park Residences Development for $672,782.

“This is step one of a few additional steps to get the property cleaned up,” Assistant City Manager/City Clerk Lance Spicer told the board earlier this week. “It puts everybody on the same page.”

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For the entire article, see
http://www.hotsr.com/news/2018/jan/13/city-seeks-liability-protections-majestic-site/

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director
Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
P.O. Box 998, Mountain View, CA 94042
Voice/Fax: 650/961-8918 
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
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