Notification of the public comment period for a brownfields development agreement for the 333 South Governors Avenue site (DE-0359)

Pursuant  to the Hazardous Substance Cleanup Act (HSCA), 7 Del. C. Chapter 91,  §9126, the Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control (DNREC) is required to issue a public notice within twenty days after entering into negotiations for a Brownfields Development Agreement (BDA). A BDA is an agreement between DNREC and a Brownfields developer with respect to a Certified Brownfield Site that sets forth a scope of work and schedule of remedial activities during the development of the Site.

DNREC’s Site Investigation and Restoration Section (DNREC-SIRS) negotiated a BDA with Dover Seafood Company, LLC regarding the 333 South Governors Avenue Site located at 333 South Governors Avenue in Dover, Delaware.  Identified by Kent County as tax parcel number 2-05.07709-04-4700, the 0.19 acre Site may have had a release of hazardous substances from past use as a gas station.  For more site-specific information, please see DNREC-SIRS’s site files database at http://docs.dnrec.delaware.gov/SIRBsitefiles.cfm and DNREC’s navigator at http://www.nav.dnrec.delaware.gov/DEN3.
  
DNREC invites written public comments on this BDA.  The public comment period begins on December 30, 2012 and will close at the end of the business day (4:30 p.m.) on January 18, 2013.  Written comments should be submitted to Stephen Johnson at DNREC-SIRS’s address listed above. A copy of the BDA is available at the office of DNREC – SIRS, 391 Lukens Drive, New Castle, DE 19720 or by accessing DNREC-SIRS’s superfund site files database as described above. 

For more site-specific information, please see DNREC-SIRS’s site files database at http://docs.dnrec.delaware.gov/SIRBsitefiles.cfm and DNREC’s navigator at http://www.nav.dnrec.delaware.gov/DEN3.  

Learn more about this Site and other Brownfields sites by accessing DNREC-SIRS’s web page at http://www.awm.delaware.gov/SIRB/Pages/Brownfields.aspx
by contacting the DNREC-SIRS Project Manager,  Stephen Johnson at (302) 395-2600.