Attached is a request to appeal the determination made by USEPA Region III received on April 8, 2016 pertaining to FOIA Request EPA-R3-2014-006974, submitted initially on June 2, 2014. The initial appeal made to Washington, D.C. in September, 2014 (FOIA Appeal EPA-HQ-2014-010618) relating to Region III's deemed denial of FOIA Request EPA-R3-2014-006974 was never acknowledged.

1. April 28, 2016
National Freedom of Information Act Officer
United States Environmental Protection Agency
Records, Freedom of Information Act, and Privacy Branch
1200 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW (2822T)
Washington, DC 20460
Via email to foia_hq@epa.gov
RE: FOIA Request EPA-R3-2014-006974
Officer of the National Freedom of Information Act:
The following is a request to appeal the determination made by USEPA Region III as received on April 8, 2016
(see attachments to the email dated the same and forwarded with this request) regarding FOIA Request EPA-R3-
2014-006974, originally submitted on June 2, 2014. The partial denial did not specify which portions of the
initial request were provided and which were denied. Because of this, a response is being requested to provide a
specific response to each of the items requested, and, if not provided within the 16 records posted to the FOIA
Online website on December 18, 2014, a specific reason for the denial/redaction of each. The initial request has
been broken down and numbered below so that each item can be addressed.
FOIA Request EPA-R3-2014-006974: “12th and Main Street” Landfill - Sellersville, PA. All records for said
location (comprised of the greater portion of the Borough of Sellersville and inclusive of areas south of the
present-day 12th and Main Street location) from as far back as possible through present, including but not
limited to the following:
Records pertaining to
1. Landfill/solid waste management
2. Radiation
3. Toxic releases
4. Air, water, and soil contaminants (inclusive of specific contaminant measurements/levels, testing, and
related remediation efforts)
5. VOC plume specs and analysis
6. PRP designations
7. Historic references
8. Legal proceedings
9. Timelines/narratives for all past and future remediation
10. Historic maps
11. Meets and bounds of the "site" (inclusive of areas in Sellersville Borough, East Rockhill Township,
Perkasie Borough, and West Rockhill Township [in addition to any related historic municipal boundary
changes/ street reconfigurations])
12. Uranium milling records
13. Radium production records
14. Tailings disposal records
15. Surface impoundment records
16. Records relating to any land application farming
17. Underground well injections
18. In-situ contamination remediation
19. Historic-site mining/quarry operations
20. Third-party site assessments
21. All reporting completed by Halliburton NUS for the Sellersville/Sellersville landfill area through present

2. 22. USEPA human health/exposure assessments for area residents
23. Records relating to the effect of said location's historic operations on Sellerville's groundwater/drinking
water supply
24. Any records referencing the $250MM mortgage secured by AMETEK Inc. in 1994 on numerous parcels
of ground within the Sellersville Landfill/Borough footprint (inclusive of any related environmental
liens/covenants/easements/restrictions)
25. Any records referencing the network of groundwater monitoring wells installed throughout the
Sellersville/Sellersville landfill area just before the issuance of said mortgage in 1994, including but not
limited to those drilled in front of 101-112 Mews Drive, Sellersville, PA.
Notwithstanding the fact that the partial denial/partial approval did not address each portion of the initial request,
this appeal is being formally made to obtain all information pertaining to the 25 items listed above in full,
unredacted format due to the fact that each is related to the human health and welfare of residents in the
surrounding community. This appeal specifically includes the request to release all information contained in the
June, 1992 Halliburton Nuclear Utility Services report entitled “Final Screening Site Inspection – Inactive
Landfill.” The following paragraph expands upon said report.
A 1994 lawsuit regarding high-level radiation contamination in Sellersville, Pennsylvania references the
aforesaid Halliburton “Final Screening Site Inspection – Inactive Landfill” report that was redacted in full (title
pages excluded) by the USEPA upon provision. Pages 28-29 of the legal transcript indicate that said report was
to be withheld from inclusion in the court's records: “I'm not going to have this marked for the record, Your
Honor, if you don't mind. I'm not sure we want it in the record;” Page 67 indicates that radioactive “hot spots”
are located “all over Sellersville.”1
The Halliburton “Final Screening Site Inspection – Inactive Landfill” report
designates the location of these areas. This report continues to be withheld from the general public, having been
1) omitted from Bucks County court records, 2) eliminated from a 2012 FOIA records request provision by the
Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection, 3) deemed denied by Sellersville Borough in a 3/2014
FOIA request, 4) deemed denied by the USEPA in a 6/2014 FOIA request, and 5) provided in a subsequent 2014
USEPA FOIA records request provision (post-appeal), but with 58 of its 60 pages fully redacted. This report is
inclusive of wells drilled outside my front door which were never disclosed to me when I “purchased” the
property at 108 Mews Drive, Sellersville, PA in 1998. What's more, said residence was constructed illegally and
in violation of numerous building codes, regulations, and standards of ethical conduct. Additionally, the
property was never legally conveyed to the developer and remains under the ownership of a corporate entity
whose true identity, affiliates, shareholders, subsidiaries, and/or parent companies remain undisclosed. As an
alleged “owner” of said property and a resident for 18 years, I have the right to know all information pertaining
to the wells that exist on this property and their use in 1) the monitoring of the AMETEK-related underground
chemical plume that is present beneath this subdivision, and 2) any current/past uranium mining, in-situ or
otherwise, that is occurring or has occurred on this property. Furthermore, having been a consumer of
Sellersville Boro Water Works from 1998 through the sale of said supplier circa 2011 with current knowledge of
1) the destruction of Sellersville's groundwater supply due to the underground chemical plume that exists in this
area coupled with the elevated levels of arsenic that resulted from iron oxidation and said element's subsequent
mobilization caused by industrial VOC groundwater contamination, 2) the fraudulent removal of various line
items from years of disclosure mandated by CCR regulations per the Safe Drinking Water Act disclosing the
accurate levels of said heavy metal, industrial, and microbiological contaminants of Sellersville's drinking water,
3) the continued refusal of all local, county, state, and federal regulatory agencies to disclose the correct
source(s) of both current and past source supplies of Sellersville's drinking water, and 4) the undisclosed after-
effects of Sellersville's still-unacknowledged uranium-related industries on Sellersville's residents, inclusive of
in-situ uranium mining processes, landfill locations/specs/parameters, strip/quarry uranium mining occurrences
and leaching processes, nuclear weapons production/disposal activities, and other underground/burial-related
occurrences in the Sellersville/18960 area, I firmly believe I have a right to obtain all information as requested.
1Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Resources vs. PTI. p. 28-29, 67. Bucks County Court of Common Pleas
No. 94-007754-15-5. 17 October 1994. Retrieved 2012 via a Freedom of Information Act Request with the Pennsylvania Department of
Environmental Protection.

3. Finally, upon receipt of the USEPA's final determination of FOIA Request #EPA-R3-2014-006974 on April 8,
2016, I replied via email to r3foia@epa.gov to request that the determination letter be sent in one electronic file
without separation of the body of the letter and the letter's signature. I have received no response to this request.
The files showing the signature line separation have been forwarded with the email containing this appeal
request for reference, and a screen-shot of my April 8, 2016 email outlining the aforesaid request is being
provided below. I would like to obtain this as requested.
Thank you.
Sincerely,
(REDACTED)
(rev x2)