[Federal Register Volume 61, Number 230 (Wednesday, November 27, 1996)]
[Rules and Regulations]
[Pages 60197-60198]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 96-29926]
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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
40 CFR Part 300
[FRL-5654-1]
National Oil and Hazardous Substances Contingency Plan; National
Priorities List Update
AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
ACTION: Notice of Partial Deletion of the Lakewood Site from the
National Priorities List.
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SUMMARY: The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Region 10 announces
the deletion of a portion of the Lakewood Site, located in Lakewood,
Pierce County, Washington from the National Priorities List (NPL). The
portion of the site to be deleted is the soil unit and includes all
contaminated soil/sludge related to the site. The NPL constitutes
Appendix B of 40 CFR part 300 which is the National Oil and Hazardous
Substances Contingency Plan (NCP), which EPA promulgated pursuant to
Section 105 of the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation,
and Liability Act of 1980, as amended (CERCLA). EPA and the State of
Washington Department of Ecology have determined that no further
cleanup under CERCLA is required and that the selected remedy has been
protective of public health, welfare, and the environment.
EFFECTIVE DATE: November 27, 1996.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Ann Williamson, Remedial Project
Manager, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Region 10, 1200 6th
Avenue, ECL-113, Seattle, WA 98101; (206) 553-2739.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The site to be partially deleted from the
NPL is the Lakewood Site located in Lakewood, Pierce County,
Washington.
This partial deletion pertains only to the soil unit and includes
all contaminated soil/sludge on the Plaza Cleaners property. The soil
unit is confined to an area on the Plaza Cleaners property. The
Lakewood Site, including the plume of contaminated ground water, is
predominantly residential to the north of the Burlington Northern
Railroad tracks and commercial/light industrial along Pacific Highway
Southwest. Lakewood Water District's two production wells are located
within a fenced area immediately across Interstate 5. Residential
property lies to the east and McChord Air Force Base to the southeast
of the wells.
A plume of contaminated ground water, resulting from former
disposal practices at Plaza Cleaners, continues to require treatment
via air stripping at the Lakewood Water District production wells.
Therefore, the ground-water unit will remain on the NPL and is not the
subject of this partial deletion.
This partial deletion is in accordance with 40 CFR 300.425(e) and
the Notice of Policy Change: Partial Deletion of Sites Listed on the
National Priorities List, 60 FR 55466 (Nov. 1, 1995). A Notice of
Intent for Partial Deletion was published September 27, 1996 (61 FR
50788). The closing date for comments on the Notice of Intent to Delete
was October 26, 1996. EPA did not receive any comments on the proposed
partial deletion and has not prepared a Responsiveness Summary.
EPA identifies sites which appear to present a significant risk to
public health, welfare, or the environment and it maintains the NPL as
the list of those sites. Sites on the NPL may be the subject of
Hazardous Substance Response Trust Fund-financed remedial actions. Any
site, or portion of a site, deleted from the NPL remains eligible for
Fund-financed remedial actions in the unlikely event that conditions at
the site warrant such action. Section 300.425 of the NCP states that
Fund-financed actions may be taken at sites deleted from the NPL.
Deletion of a site from the NPL does not affect responsible party
liability or impede Agency efforts to recover costs associated with
response efforts.
List of Subjects in 40 CFR Part 300
Environmental protection, Air pollution control, Chemicals,
Hazardous substances, Hazardous waste, Intergovernmental relations,
Penalties, Reporting and recordkeeping requirements, Superfund, Water
pollution control.
Dated: November 14, 1996.
Chuck Clarke,
Regional Administrator, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Region
10.
For the reasons set out in the preamble, 40 CFR part 300 is amended
as follows:
PART 300--[AMENDED]
1. The authority citation for part 300 continues to read as
follows:
Authority: 33 U.S.C. 1321(c)(2); 42 U.S.C. 9601-9657; E.O.
12777, 56 FR 54757, 3 CFR 1991 Comp., p. 351; E.O. 12580, 52 FR
2923, 3 CFR, 1987 Comp., p. 193.
Appendix B--[Amended]
2. Table 1 of Appendix B to part 300 is amended by removing the
entry for Lakewood Site, Lakewood County, Washington, and adding in its
place an entry for Lakewood, Lakewood/Pierce County, Washington, to
read as follows:
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Table 1.--General Superfund Section
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State Site name City/county Notes
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WA Lakewood Lakewood/Pierce P
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P=Sites with partial deletion(s).
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[FR Doc. 96-29926 Filed 11-26-96; 8:45 am]
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