98-4817. National Oil and Hazardous Substances Pollution Contingency Plan; National Priorities List Update

[Federal Register Volume 63, Number 39 (Friday, February 27, 1998)]
[Rules and Regulations]
[Pages 9948-9949]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 98-4817]


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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

40 CFR Part 300

[FRL-5970-4]


National Oil and Hazardous Substances Pollution Contingency Plan; 
National Priorities List Update

AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency.

ACTION: Notice of deletion of the Browning-Ferris Industries--South 
Brunswick Landfill superfund site from the National Priorities List.

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SUMMARY: The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announces the 
deletion of the Browning-Ferris Industries--South Brunswick Landfill 
Site in South Brunswick Township, Middlesex County, New Jersey from the 
National Priorities List (NPL). The NPL is Appendix B of 40 CFR part 
300 which is the National Oil and Hazardous Substances Pollution 
Contingency Plan (NCP), which EPA promulgated pursuant to section 105 
of the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and 
Liability Act of 1980 (CERCLA), as amended. EPA and the State of New 
Jersey have determined that the Site poses no significant threat to 
public health or the environment and, therefore, no further remedial 
measures pursuant to CERCLA are appropriate.

EFFECTIVE DATE: February 27, 1998.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mary Anne Rosa, Remedial Project 
Manager, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Region II, 290 Broadway, 
New York, New York 10007-1866, [phone].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The site to be deleted from the NPL is: 
Browning-Ferris Industries--South Brunswick Landfill Site, South 
Brunswick Township, Middlesex County, New Jersey.
    A Notice of Intent to Delete for this Site was published in the 
Federal

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Register on  November 6, 1997 (62 FR 60058). The closing date for 
comments on the Notice of Intent to Delete was December 8, 1997. No 
comments were received therefore, EPA has not prepared a Responsiveness 
Summary.
    EPA identifies sites that appear to present a significant risk to 
public health, welfare, or the environment and it maintains the NPL as 
the list of those sites. Any 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(e)(3) 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, and Water supply.

    Dated: February 2, 1998.
William J. Muszynski,
Acting Regional Administrator.

    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: 42 U.S.C. 9601-9657; 33 U.S.C. 1321(c)(2); 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 the South Brunswick Landfill site in South Brunswick, NJ.

[FR Doc. 98-4817 Filed 2-26-98; 8:45 am]
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