{"id":174082,"date":"2026-02-11T22:33:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-11T22:33:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/174082\/"},"modified":"2026-02-11T22:33:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-11T22:33:09","slug":"epa-approves-30-day-public-comment-period-extension-for-orange-county-north-basin-superfund-site","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/174082\/","title":{"rendered":"EPA Approves 30-day Public Comment Period Extension for Orange County North Basin Superfund Site"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/fullertonobserver.com\/category\/community-submission\/\" class=\"post-lead-category\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Community Voices<\/a><\/p>\n<p>EPA extended the public comment period for the proposed plan to contain and treat contaminated groundwater in Orange County until March 23, 2026.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 EPA began the public comment period on January 5, 2026, and held individual public meetings in the cities of Anaheim, Fullerton, and Buena Park in January.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=P6NPo8x_6B0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">You can view a recorded presentation on the plan HERE.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Comments must be postmarked no later than March 23, 2026, to be considered.<\/p>\n<p>Send written comments to:<br \/>Amanda Cruz<br \/>Remedial Project Manager<br \/>EPA Region 9<br \/>75 Hawthorne Street<br \/>San Francisco, CA 94105-3901<\/p>\n<p>OR by Email to:<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/fullertonobserver.com\/2026\/02\/11\/epa-approves-30-day-public-comment-period-extension-for-orange-county-north-basin-superfund-site\/mailto:cruz.amanda@epa.gov\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">cruz.amanda@epa.gov<\/a><br \/>And include Community Involvement Coordinator Jackie Lane on comment emails; lane.jackie@epa.gov<\/p>\n<p>EPA will carefully review and consider all public comments on our Proposed Plan. EPA will share our responses to all comments (in writing) when we release the final plan.<\/p>\n<p>For More Information<br \/>\u2022 Review a summary of the Proposed Plan below or<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/semspub.epa.gov\/work\/09\/100046258.pdf\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Click here to the full proposed Plan in Spanish\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/semspub.epa.gov\/src\/document\/09\/100046054\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Click Here to read the full Proposed Plan in English<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2022 A full set of documents we used to create the Proposed Plan (including the site\u2019s\u00a0Administrative Record) can be found\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/semspub.epa.gov\/src\/collection\/09\/AR67901\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>, including the site\u2019s\u00a0Remedial Investigation\/Feasibility Study report.<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"182260\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/fullertonobserver.com\/2026\/02\/11\/epa-approves-30-day-public-comment-period-extension-for-orange-county-north-basin-superfund-site\/epa-oc-plume\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fullertonobserver.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/EPA-OC-Plume.png?fit=2040%2C1580&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"2040,1580\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"EPA OC Plume\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fullertonobserver.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/EPA-OC-Plume.png?fit=300%2C232&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fullertonobserver.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/EPA-OC-Plume.png?fit=829%2C642&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-182260\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/EPA-OC-Plume.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"583\" height=\"451\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/fullertonobserver.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/100046054-2-1.pdf\" class=\"pdfemb-viewer\" style=\"\" data-width=\"max\" data-height=\"max\" data-mobile-width=\"500\" data-scrollbar=\"both\" data-download=\"on\" data-tracking=\"on\" data-newwindow=\"on\" data-pagetextbox=\"off\" data-scrolltotop=\"off\" data-startzoom=\"100\" data-startfpzoom=\"100\" data-toolbar=\"both\" data-toolbar-fixed=\"on\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">100046054-2<br \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Like this:<\/p>\n<p>Like Loading&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"sd-link-color\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\n\tRelated\n<\/p>\n<p>\tDiscover more from Fullerton Observer<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"margin-top:10px;margin-bottom:10px;font-size:15px\">Subscribe to get the latest posts sent to your email.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Community Voices EPA extended the public comment period for the proposed plan to contain and treat contaminated groundwater&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":174083,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[163,165,164],"class_list":["post-174082","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-anaheim","tag-anaheim","tag-anaheim-headlines","tag-anaheim-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174082","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=174082"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174082\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/174083"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=174082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=174082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=174082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}