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EPA Docket No. CERCLA-vm-93-10 13 Respondent submits a Notice of Intent to negotiate an AOC, this Order shall, with respect to that Respondent, be superceded by any fully executed AOC, which results from these negotiations. Twenty-one (21) days, calculated from the Date of Issuance of The this Order r: shall be allowed for the negotiation of an AOC. schedule for performance of Work shall be calculated from the effective date of this Order or from the effective date of the superceding AOC once it is fully executed. Respondents may request a conference with EPA, no later than seven (7) days after the Date of Issuance, discuss this Order, including its applicability, the appropriateness of activities required to be undertaken, 60. to-occur to and issuance of this Order. other issues and contentions relevant be made to Karen S. Kellen, Any request for a conference shall Assistant Regional Counsel, EPA Region VIII, 999 18th Street, to Suite At any [phone]. 80202-2405, 500, Denver, Colorado or in through an conference, Respondents may appear person Such is conference or other designated representative. attorney adversarial or an deemed to and shall be not be, hearing not, part of a proceeding to challenge this Order, and no official such stenographic record of such proceeding hall be kept. Respon-dent(s) does not submit a letter of Intent to each Negotiate, Respondent shall, no later than seven {7} days after the Date of Issuance, inform EPA in writing as to whether If Respondent{s} submits a it intends to comply with the Order. letter of Intent to Negotiate but does not reach agreement with EPA within twenty-one (21) days of the Date of Issuance of this Order, then, within twenty-four (24) hours of the Effective Date of this Order, each Respondent shall inform EPA in writing as to If 61. A failure to intends to comply with this Order. indicate an intention to comply with this Order by whether it respond to or such date intend to shall be deemed xv. 62 to mean that Respondent{s} does not comply with this Order. In the RESERVATIONS, DISCLAIMERS that EPA determines that the activities this Order or any emergency circumstances to public health or welfare or the environment, event performed pursuant to may pose a tpreat EPA may direct Respondents to stop further implementation of Work pursuant to this Order or may take or order further actions to This provision is not to be construed to limit abate the threat. EPA any powers may have under CERCLA, the NCP, or any law or . regulation. 63. Nothing herein shall peclude EPA from taking action to enforce this Order, nor from taking any action pursuant to Sections 104, 106, 107, or 122 of CERCLA, 42 U.S.C. §§ 9604, .9606, 9607, or 9622, nor any and all actions pursuant to CERCLA or any other available legal authority, including without