Community Involvement Plan

The National Park Service (NPS) is issuing this Community Involvement Plan (CIP) as a resource to enable meaningful community involvement throughout its investigation, selection, and implementation of cleanup activities at the Newhalem Penstock, Ladder Creek Settling Tank, and Diablo Dry Dock (Sites), which are all located within Ross Lake National Recreation Area. The Sites became contaminated as a result of activities associated with the historical operations of Seattle City Light (SCL), a publicly owned utility company that operates three hydroelectric facilities within the national recreation area. NPS is conducting cleanup activities at each of the Sites pursuant to the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA), 42 U.S.C. §§ 9601, et seq., and its implementing regulations under the National Oil and Hazardous Substances Pollution Contingency Plan (NCP), 40 C.F.R. Part 300. The NPS is committed to encouraging public participation and providing opportunities for communication between NPS and the affected community, interested stakeholders, and community residents during the environmental investigation and cleanup activities at the Sites.

Document Content:

NOCA SCL Contaminated Sites Community Involvement Plan January 2023.pdf   (1.5 MB, PDF file) Disclaimer: Links within the above document(s) were valid as of the date published. Note: Some of the files may be in PDF format and can be viewed using the Adobe Acrobat Reader software. You may download a free copy of from Adobe Systems.