03-9745. National Oil and Hazardous Substances Pollution Contingency Plan; National Priorities List

AGENCY:

Environmental Protection Agency.

ACTION:

Notice of deletion for the Industrial Latex Corp. Superfund Site from the National Priorities List.

SUMMARY:

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Region II Office announces the deletion of the Industrial Latex Corp. Superfund Site from the National Priorities List (NPL). The Industrial Latex site is located in the Borough of Wallington, Bergen County, New Jersey. The NPL constitutes appendix B to the National Oil and Hazardous Substances Pollution Contingency Plan (NCP), 40 CFR part 300, 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, through the Department of Environmental Protection, have determined that all appropriate remedial actions have been completed at the Industrial Latex site and no further fund-financed remedial action is appropriate under CERCLA. In addition, EPA and the State of New Jersey have determined that the remedial actions taken at the Industrial Latex site protect public health and the environment without any further monitoring or restriction.

EFFECTIVE DATE:

April 21, 2003.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Stephanie Vaughn, Remedial Project Manager, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Region II, 290 Broadway, 19th Floor, New York, New York 10007-1866, [phone].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

To be deleted from the NPL is: the Industrial Latex Corp. Superfund Site, Borough of Wallington, Bergen County, New Jersey.

A Notice of Intent to Delete for the Industrial Latex Corp. Site was published in the Federal Register on December 9, 2002 (67 FR 72888). The closing date for comments on the Notice of Intent to Delete was March 1, 2003. EPA received no comments regarding this action. 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. As described in 300.425(e)(3) of the NCP, any site or portion thereof deleted from the NPL remains eligible for remedial actions in the unlikely event that conditions at the site warrant such action in the future. 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
• Chemicals
• Hazardous substances
• Hazardous waste
• Intergovernmental relations
• Penalties
• Superfund
• Water pollution control
• Water supply

William J. Muszynski,

Acting Regional Administrator—Region II.

For the reasons set out in the preamble, part 300, chapter I of title 40 of the Code of Federal Regulations, 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 “Industrial Latex Corp., Wallington Borough, New Jersey.”