95-7197. National Oil and Hazardous Substances Pollution Contingency Plan; National Priorities List Update

[Federal Register Volume 60, Number 56 (Thursday, March 23, 1995)]
[Rules and Regulations]
[Pages 15247-15248]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 95-7197]



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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
40 CFR Part 300

[FRL-5176-9]


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

AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency.

ACTION: Notice of deletion of the Crystal City Airport Superfund Site 
(Site) from the National Priorities List.

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SUMMARY: The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announces the 
deletion of the Site in Crystal City, Texas, 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, as amended (CERCLA). EPA and the State of Texas have 
determined that all appropriate Fund-financed responses under CERCLA 
have been implemented and that no further cleanup by responsible 
parties is appropriate. Moreover, EPA and the State of Texas have 
determined that remedial actions conducted at the Site to date have 
been protective of public health, welfare, and the environment.

EFFECTIVE DATE: March 23, 1995.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Ernest R. Franke, Remedial Project Manager, US EPA, Region 6, 1445 Ross 
Avenue, Dallas, Texas 75202-2733, [phone].

[[Page 15248]] SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The Site to be deleted from 
the NPL is the ``Crystal City Airport Superfund Site,'' Crystal City, 
Texas. A Notice of Intent to Delete for this Site was published on 
January 4, 1995 (60 FR 422). The closing date for public comment was 
February 3, 1995. EPA received no comments during the comment period.
    EPA identifies sites which appear to present a significant risk to 
public health, welfare, or the environment and maintains the NPL as a 
list of the most serious of those sites. Sites on the NPL may be the 
subject of remedial response actions financed using the Hazardous 
Substance Response Trust Fund (Fund). 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, provides that in the event of a significant 
release from a site deleted from the NPL, the site shall be restored to 
the NPL without application of the Hazard Ranking System. Deletion of a 
site from the NPL does not affect responsible party liability or impede 
agency efforts to recover costs associated with response actions.

List of Subjects in 40 CFR Part 300

    Environmental protection, Hazardous waste.

    Dated: March 6, 1995.

William B. Hathaway,

Acting Regional Administrator, Environmental Protection Agency, Region 
6.


    For the reasons setout 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(d); E.O. 11735, 
38 FR 21243; E.O. 12580; 52 FR 2923; E.O. 12777, 56 FR 54757.

Appendix B--[Amended]

    2. Table 1 of Appendix B to part 300 is amended by removing Crystal 
City Airport Superfund Site, Crystal City, Texas.

[FR Doc. 95-7197 Filed 3-22-95; 8:45 am]

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