RCRA Facility Investigation Reports
FMC is required to undertake a RCRA Facility Investigation (RFI) and to submit RFI reports in accordance with the corrective action process under RCRA and the requirements of a 1991 Administrative Order on Consent among FMC, EPA and NYSDEC.
FMC Corp. has submitted Volumes I, II, IV and V of the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act Facility Investigation (RFI) Reports regarding the historic air deposition, the Culvert 105 and Tributary One environmental study areas in Middleport, N.Y.
The RFI reports identify properties in study areas that are being proposed to be further evaluated by FMC relative to soil contamination levels in a Corrective Measures Study (CMS) under the RCRA corrective action program. The principal contaminant in soil is arsenic. FMC and predecessor companies manufactured pesticide compounds containing arsenic at the FMC Middleport plant from the 1920′s to 1974. Company representatives have visited property owners to advise them that their property has been proposed for further evaluation in the next phase of the program and have invited them to Public Meetings regarding the RFI volumes.
Representatives from FMC, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the New York State Departments of Environmental Conservation and Health presented the RFI report findings at public meetings at the Middleport Fire Hall on June 10,2009 regarding RFI Volumes I, II and IV and again on January 13, 2010 regarding Volume V.
The text and tables for these reports are available online. The complete reports are available at the FMC Document Repository at the Middleport Free Library and at the 15 Main Street Office.