Congressman Clay, E.P.A. Officials to Declare Milestone on July 29 for Carter Carburetor Superfund Location in North Saint Louis

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(Lenexa, Kan., July 25, 2013) - U.S. Representative William Lacy Clay, Jr., will join regional and national E.P.A. representatives and other federal, state and local officials in Saint Louis, Mo., on Monday, July 29, to declare a significant development related to the cleanup of the Carter Carburetor Superfund Location in North Saint Louis.

Representatives from the offices of U.S. Senators Claire McCaskill and Roy Blunt, along with Saint Louis Mayor Francis Slay, Missouri State Senator Jamilah Nasheed, members of the Saint Louis Board of Aldermen, and officials of the Boys & Girls Clubs of Greater Saint Louis are also expected to attend the announcement event, which is scheduled for eleven a.m. at the Herbert Hoover Boys & Girls Club, 2901 North Grand Avenue, in Saint Louis.

The Carter Carburetor Site, located adjacent to the Boys & Girls Club, at 2800 to 2840 North Spring Street, is a former gasoline and diesel carburetor manufacturing plant that operated from 1915 until 1984. Investigations have found unacceptable levels of polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), trichloroethylene (TCE), and asbestos at the site.

With ultimate goals of protecting human health, eliminating a hazardous neighborhood eyesore, and making the property accessible for productive reuse, E.P.A. Region seven has been engaged in long-term cleanup negotiations with 2 corporations that have ownership interests in respective portions of the site. Those corporations are Carter Building Incorporated (CBI), which previously owned the main manufacturing building and currently owns the Willco Plastics Building at the site; and ACF Industries, Inc., whose subsidiaries Carter Carburetor Corporation and Carter Automotive Products manufactured carburetors for gasoline- and diesel-powered engines at the site.

WHAT: Major Announcement for the Carter Carburetor Superfund Location

WHEN: eleven a.m. Monday, July 29, 2013

WHERE: Herbert Hoover Boys & Girls Club, 2901 N. Grand Ave., Saint Louis, Mo. 63107 (Event will be moved indoors in case of inclement weather.)

WHO: U.S. Representative William Lacy Clay, Jr.; Mathy Stanislaus, Assistant Administrator of EPA's Office of Solid Waste & Emergency Response (OSWER); E.P.A. Region seven Administrator Karl Brooks; representatives from the offices of U.S. Senators Claire McCaskill and Roy Blunt; Saint Louis Mayor Francis Slay; Missouri State Senator Jamilah Nasheed, members of the Saint Louis Board of Aldermen; and Board Chair Joan Silber and President Flint Fowler of the Boys and Girls Clubs of Greater Saint Louis.

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