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United States
Environmental Protection
Agency

EPA Successfully Completes Response
Work at Tonawanda Coke as NYDEC
Takes Over

Community Update

April 2020

Public Participation is essential to
the success of EPA's community
involvement program. If you have
any questions, please contact:

Michael Basile

EPA Public Affairs Specialist

Western NY Public Information

Office

186 Exchange Street
Buffalo, New York 14204

(716)551-4410

basile.michael@epa.gov

STATUS OF ACTIVITIES

The United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
successfully completed response work at the Tonawanda Coke
Corporation (TCC) property on March 20, 2020 relinquishing the
lead responsibility back to the NYSDEC for management of future
cleanup at the site under the New York State Brownfield Cleanup
Program (BCP) and the State Superfund program.

EPA Cleanup Actions

EPA has been performing a time-critical removal action at the TCC
Site since October 2018 when TCC commenced shutdown of its
coke manufacturing facility at the River Road, Town of Tonawanda,
New York location.

On October 12, 2018 NYDEC requested that EPA perform response work at the TCC Site to protect the
surrounding community. For nearly fourteen months, EPA has performed emergency response activities at TCC
to secure the coke plant, ensure continued safety or facility systems, and perform necessary removal activities in
order to address releases of hazardous substances. The sale of the TCC property was ordered by U.S. Bankruptcy
Court in September 2019. The bankruptcy court accepted a proposal from Ontario Specialty Construction and
Honeywell International, Inc. for the sale of the TCC property to Riverview and Technology Campus, Inc. (RITC)

for the cleanup and redevelopment of the property as a data center.

Future Activities

In mid- February 2020 the NYSDEC approved RITC's BCP application for the cleanup and redevelopment of the
main plant area. In addition, a new consent order between Honeywell and EPA was executed to address those
remaining portions of the TCC Site that had not been admitted into the BCP, referred to as Site 108 - TCC
property to the west of River Road across from the main plant. In the coming months EPA intends to continue to
provide oversight of the ongoing work being performed by Honeywell which is expected to be completed by the
summer of 2020. Apart from providing oversight of this work, EPA has discontinued all other activities at the site
but are always available to consult with the NYSDEC.

https://www.epa.gov/nv/tonawanda-coke-corporation-tcc-site

In May 2017, EPA established a task force to restore the Superfund program to its rightful
place at the center of the Agency's core mission to protect health and the environment.

epa.gov/superfund/superfund-task-force


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