96-15033. National Priorities List for Uncontrolled Hazardous Waste Sites, Proposed Rule No. 20  

  • [Federal Register Volume 61, Number 117 (Monday, June 17, 1996)]
    [Proposed Rules]
    [Pages 30575-30579]
    From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
    [FR Doc No: 96-15033]
    
    
    
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    ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
    40 CFR Part 300
    
    [FRL-5520-3]
    
    
    National Priorities List for Uncontrolled Hazardous Waste Sites, 
    Proposed Rule No. 20
    
    AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency.
    
    ACTION: Proposed rule.
    
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    SUMMARY: The Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and 
    Liability Act of 1980 (``CERCLA'' or ``the Act''), as amended, requires 
    that the National Oil and Hazardous Substances Pollution Contingency 
    Plan (``NCP'') include a list of national priorities among the known 
    releases or threatened releases of hazardous substances, pollutants, or 
    contaminants throughout the United States. The National Priorities List 
    (``NPL'') constitutes this list.
        This rule proposes to add 15 new sites to the NPL, 13 to the 
    General Superfund Section and 2 to the Federal Facilities Section. The 
    NPL is intended primarily to guide the Environmental Protection Agency 
    (``EPA'' or ``the Agency'') in determining which sites warrant further 
    investigation to assess the nature and extent of public health and 
    environmental risks associated with the site and to determine what 
    CERCLA-financed remedial action(s), if any, may be appropriate.
    
    DATES: Comments must be submitted on or before August 16, 1996.
    
    ADDRESSES: Mail original and three copies of comments (no facsimiles or 
    tapes) to Docket Coordinator, Headquarters, U.S. EPA, CERCLA Docket 
    Office, (Mail Code 5201G); 401 M Street, SW., Washington, DC 20460, 
    703/603-8917. Please note this is the mailing address only. If you wish 
    to visit the HQ Docket to view documents, and for additional Docket 
    addresses and further details on their contents, see Section I of the 
    Supplementary Information portion of this preamble.
    
    FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Terry Keidan, State and Site 
    Identification Center, Office of Emergency and Remedial Response (Mail 
    Code 5204G), U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, 401 M Street, SW., 
    Washington, DC 20460, or the Superfund Hotline, Phone (800) 424-9346 or 
    (703) 412-9810 in the Washington, DC, metropolitan area.
    
    SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
    
    I. Introduction
    II. Contents of This Proposed Rule
    III. Executive Order 12866
    IV. Unfunded Mandates
    V. Governors' Concurrence
    VI. Effect on Small Businesses
    
    I. Introduction
    
    Background
    
        In 1980, Congress enacted the Comprehensive Environmental Response, 
    Compensation, and Liability Act, 42 U.S.C. 9601-9675 (``CERCLA'' or 
    ``the Act''), in response to the dangers of uncontrolled hazardous 
    waste sites. CERCLA was amended on October 17, 1986, by the Superfund 
    Amendments and Reauthorization Act (``SARA''), Pub. L. 99-499, stat. 
    1613 et seq. To implement CERCLA, EPA promulgated the revised National 
    Oil and Hazardous Substances Pollution Contingency Plan (``NCP''), 40 
    CFR part 300, on July 16, 1982 (47 FR 31180), pursuant to CERCLA 
    section 105 and Executive Order 12316 (46 FR 42237, August 20, 1981). 
    The NCP sets forth the guidelines and procedures needed to respond 
    under CERCLA to releases and threatened releases of hazardous 
    substances, pollutants, or contaminants. EPA has revised the NCP on 
    several occasions. The most recent comprehensive revision was on March 
    8, 1990 (55 FR 8666).
        Section 105(a)(8)(A) of CERCLA requires that the NCP include 
    ``criteria for determining priorities among releases or threatened 
    releases throughout the United States for the purpose of taking 
    remedial action * * * and, to the extent practicable taking into 
    account the potential urgency of such action, for the purpose of taking 
    removal action.'' ``Removal'' actions are defined broadly and include a 
    wide range of actions taken to study, clean up, prevent or otherwise 
    address releases and threatened releases. 42 U.S.C. 9601(23). 
    ``Remedial actions'' are those ``consistent with permanent remedy, 
    taken instead of or in addition to removal actions. * * *'' 42 U.S.C 
    9601(24).
        Pursuant to section 105(a)(8)(B) of CERCLA, as amended by SARA, EPA 
    has promulgated a list of national priorities among the known or 
    threatened releases of hazardous substances, pollutants, or 
    contaminants throughout the United States. That list, which is appendix 
    B of 40 CFR part 300, is the National Priorities List (``NPL'').
        CERCLA section 105(a)(8)(B) defines the NPL as a list of 
    ``releases'' and as a list of the highest priority ``facilities.'' 
    CERCLA section 105(a)(8)(B) also requires that the NPL be revised at 
    least annually. A site may undergo remedial action financed by the 
    Trust Fund established under CERCLA (commonly referred to as the 
    ``Superfund'') only after it is placed on the NPL, as provided in the 
    NCP at 40 CFR 300.425(b)(1). However, under 40 CFR 300.425(b)(2) 
    placing a site on the NPL ``does not imply that monies will be 
    expended.'' EPA may pursue other appropriate authorities to remedy the 
    releases, including enforcement action under CERCLA and other laws. 
    Further, the NPL is only of limited significance, as it does not assign 
    liability to any party or to the owner of any specific property. See 
    Report of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works, Senate 
    Rep. No. 96-848, 96th Cong., 2d Sess. 60 (1980), quoted above and at 48 
    FR 40659 (September 8, 1983).
        Three mechanisms for placing sites on the NPL for possible remedial 
    action are included in the NCP at 40 CFR 300.425(c). Under 40 CFR 
    300.425(c)(1), a site may be included on the NPL if it scores 
    sufficiently high on the Hazard Ranking System (``HRS''), which EPA 
    promulgated as appendix A of 40 CFR part 300. On December 14, 1990 (55 
    FR 51532), EPA promulgated revisions to the HRS partly in response to 
    CERCLA section 105(c), added by SARA. The revised HRS evaluates four 
    pathways: Ground water, surface water, soil exposure, and air. The HRS 
    serves as a screening device to evaluate the relative potential of 
    uncontrolled hazardous substances to pose a threat to human health or 
    the environment. As a matter of Agency policy, those sites that score 
    28.50 or greater on the HRS are eligible for the NPL.
        Under a second mechanism for adding sites to the NPL, each State 
    may designate a single site as its top priority, regardless of the HRS 
    score. This mechanism, provided by the NCP at 40 CFR 300.425(c)(2), 
    requires that, to the extent practicable, the NPL include within the 
    100 highest priorities, one facility designated by each State 
    representing the greatest danger to public health, welfare, or the 
    environment among known facilities in the State.
        The third mechanism for listing, included in the NCP at 40 CFR
    
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    300.425(c)(3), allows certain sites to be listed regardless of their 
    HRS score, if all of the following conditions are met:
    
         The Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry 
    (ATSDR) of the U.S. Public Health Service has issued a health 
    advisory that recommends dissociation of individuals from the 
    release.
         EPA determines that the release poses a significant 
    threat to public health.
         EPA anticipates that it will be more cost-effective to 
    use its remedial authority (available only at NPL sites) than to use 
    its removal authority to respond to the release.
    
        EPA promulgated an original NPL of 406 sites on September 8, 1983 
    (48 FR 40658). The NPL has been expanded since then, most recently on 
    September 29, 1995 (60 FR 50435).
        The NPL includes two sections, one of sites that are evaluated and 
    cleaned up by EPA (the ``General Superfund Section''), and one of sites 
    being addressed generally by other Federal agencies (the ``Federal 
    Facilities Section''). Under Executive Order 12580 (52 FR 2923, January 
    29, 1987) and CERCLA section 120, each Federal agency is responsible 
    for carrying out most response actions at facilities under its own 
    jurisdiction, custody, or control, although EPA is responsible for 
    preparing an HRS score and determining whether the facility is placed 
    on the NPL. EPA is not the lead agency at these sites, and its role at 
    such sites is accordingly less extensive than at other sites. The 
    Federal Facilities Section includes facilities at which EPA is not the 
    lead agency.
    
    Site Boundaries
    
        The NPL does not describe releases in precise geographical terms; 
    it would be neither feasible nor consistent with the limited purpose of 
    the NPL (as the mere identification of releases), for it to do so.
        CERCLA section 105(a)(8)(B) directs EPA to list national priorities 
    among the known ``releases or threatened releases.'' Thus, the purpose 
    of the NPL is merely to identify releases that are priorities for 
    further evaluation. Although a CERCLA ``facility'' is broadly defined 
    to include any area where a hazardous substance release has ``come to 
    be located'' (CERCLA section 101(9)), the listing process itself is not 
    intended to define or reflect the boundaries of such facilities or 
    releases. Of course, HRS data upon which the NPL placement was based 
    will, to some extent, describe which release is at issue. That is, the 
    NPL site would include all releases evaluated as part of that HRS 
    analysis (including noncontiguous releases evaluated under the NPL 
    aggregation policy, described at 48 FR 40663 (September 8, 1983)).
        When a site is listed, it is necessary to define the release (or 
    releases) encompassed within the listing. The approach generally used 
    is to delineate a geographical area (usually the area within the 
    installation or plant boundaries) and define the site by reference to 
    that area. As a legal matter, the site is not coextensive with that 
    area, and the boundaries of the installation or plant are not the 
    ``boundaries'' of the site. Rather, the site consists of all 
    contaminated areas within the area used to define the site, and any 
    other location to which contamination from that area has come to be 
    located.
        While geographic terms are often used to designate the site (e.g., 
    the ``Jones Co. plant site'') in terms of the property owned by the 
    particular party, the site properly understood is not limited to that 
    property (e.g., it may extend beyond the property due to contaminant 
    migration), and conversely may not occupy the full extent of the 
    property (e.g., where there are uncontaminated parts of the identified 
    property, they may not be, strictly speaking, part of the ``site''). 
    The ``site'' is thus neither equal to nor confined by the boundaries of 
    any specific property that may give the site its name, and the name 
    itself should not be read to imply that this site is coextensive with 
    the entire area within the property boundary of the facility or plant. 
    The precise nature and extent of the site are typically not known at 
    the time of listing. Also, the site name is merely used to help 
    identify the geographic location of the contamination. For example, the 
    ``Jones Co. plant site,'' does not imply that the Jones company is 
    responsible for the contamination located on the plant site.
        EPA regulations provide that the ``nature and extent of the threat 
    presented by a release'' will be determined by a Remedial 
    Investigation/Feasibility Study (RI/FS) as more information is 
    developed on site contamination (40 CFR 300.430(d)). During the RI/FS 
    process, the release may be found to be larger or smaller than was 
    originally thought, as more is learned about the source and the 
    migration of the contamination. However, this inquiry focuses on an 
    evaluation of the threat posed; the boundaries of the release need not 
    be exactly defined. Moreover, it generally is impossible to discover 
    the full extent of where the contamination ``has come to be located'' 
    before all necessary studies and remedial work are completed at a site. 
    Indeed, the boundaries of the contamination can be expected to change 
    over time. Thus, in most cases, it may be impossible to describe the 
    boundaries of a release with absolute certainty.
        Further, as noted above, NPL listing does not assign liability to 
    any party or to the owner of any specific property. Thus, if a party 
    does not believe it is liable for releases on discrete parcels of 
    property, supporting information can be submitted to the Agency at any 
    time after a party receives notice it is a potentially responsible 
    party.
        For these reasons, the NPL need not be amended if further research 
    into the extent of the contamination expands the apparent boundaries of 
    the release.
    
    Deletions/Cleanups
    
        EPA may delete sites from the NPL where no further response is 
    appropriate under Superfund, as explained in the NCP at 40 CFR 
    300.425(e). This section also provides that EPA shall consult with 
    states on proposed deletions and shall consider whether the following 
    criteria have been met:
        (i) Responsible parties or other persons have implemented all 
    appropriate response actions required;
        (ii) All appropriate Superfund-financed response has been 
    implemented and no further response action is required;
        (iii) The remedial investigation has shown the release poses no 
    significant threat to public health or the environment, and taking of 
    remedial measures is not appropriate.
    
    To date, the Agency has deleted 108 sites from the final NPL.
        EPA also has developed an NPL construction completion list 
    (``CCL'') to simplify its system of categorizing sites and to better 
    communicate the successful completion of cleanup activities (58 FR 
    12142, March 2, 1993). Sites qualify for the CCL when:
        (1) Any necessary physical construction is complete, whether or not 
    final cleanup levels or other requirements have been achieved;
        (2) EPA has determined that the response action should be limited 
    to measures that do not involve construction (e.g., institutional 
    controls); or
        (3) The site qualifies for deletion from the NPL.
    
    Inclusion of a site on the CCL has no legal significance.
        In addition to the 102 sites that have been deleted from the NPL 
    because they have been cleaned up (6 sites have been deleted based on 
    deferral to other authorities and are not considered cleaned up), an 
    additional 251 sites are also on the NPL CCL. Thus, as of June 1996, 
    the CCL consists of 353 sites.
    
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    Public Comment Period
    
        The documents that form the basis for EPA's evaluation and scoring 
    of sites in this rule are contained in dockets located both at EPA 
    Headquarters and in the appropriate Regional offices. The dockets are 
    available for viewing, by appointment only, after the appearance of 
    this rule. The hours of operation for the Headquarters docket are from 
    9 a.m. to 4 p.m., Monday through Friday excluding Federal holidays. 
    Please contact individual Regional dockets for hours.
    
    Docket Coordinator, Headquarters, U.S. EPA CERCLA Docket Office, (Mail 
    Code 5201G), Crystal Gateway #1, 1st Floor, 1235 Jefferson Davis 
    Highway, Arlington, VA 22202, 703/603-8917. (Please note this is 
    visiting address only. Mail comments to address listed in ``Addresses'' 
    section above.)
    Jim Kyed, Region 1, U.S. EPA Waste Management Records Center, HRC-CAN-
    7, J.F. Kennedy Federal Building, Boston, MA 02203-2211, 617/573-9656.
    Ben Conetta, Region 2, U.S. EPA, 290 Broadway, New York, NY 10007-1866, 
    212/637-4435.
    Diane McCreary, Region 3, U.S. EPA Library, 3rd Floor, 841 Chestnut 
    Building, 9th & Chestnut Streets, Philadelphia, PA 19107, 215/566-5250.
    Kathy Piselli, Region 4, U.S. EPA, 345 Courtland Street, NE., Atlanta, 
    GA 30365, 404/347-4216.
    Cathy Freeman, Region 5, U.S. EPA, Records Center, Waste Management 
    Division 7-J, Metcalfe Federal Building, 77 West Jackson Boulevard, 
    Chicago, IL 60604, 312/886-6214.
    Bart Canellas, Region 6, U.S. EPA, 1445 Ross Avenue, Mail Code 6H-MA, 
    Dallas, TX 75202-2733, 214/655-6740.
    Carole Long, Region 7, U.S. EPA, 726 Minnesota Avenue, Kansas City, KS 
    66101, 913/551-7224.
    Bob Heise, Region 8, U.S. EPA, 999 18th Street, Suite 500, Denver, CO 
    80202-2466, 303/312-6831.
    Carolyn Douglas, Region 9, U.S. EPA, 75 Hawthorne Street, San 
    Francisco, CA 94105, 415/744-2343.
    David Bennett, Region 10, U.S. EPA, 11th Floor, 1200 6th Avenue, Mail 
    Stop HW-114, Seattle, WA 98101, 206/553-2103.
    
        The Headquarters docket for this rule contains HRS score sheets for 
    each proposed site; a Documentation Record for each site describing the 
    information used to compute the score; information for any site 
    affected by particular statutory requirements or EPA listing policies; 
    and a list of documents referenced in the Documentation Record.
        The Headquarters docket also contains an ``Additional Information'' 
    document which provides a general discussion of the statutory 
    requirements affecting NPL listing, the purpose and implementation of 
    the NPL, and the economic impacts of NPL listing.
        Each Regional docket for this rule contains all of the information 
    in the Headquarters docket for sites in that Region, plus the actual 
    reference documents containing the data principally relied upon and 
    cited by EPA in calculating or evaluating the HRS scores for sites in 
    that Region. These reference documents are available only in the 
    Regional dockets. Interested parties may view documents, by appointment 
    only, in the Headquarters or the appropriate Regional docket or copies 
    may be requested from the Headquarters or appropriate Regional docket. 
    An informal written request, rather than a formal request under the 
    Freedom of Information Act, should be the ordinary procedure for 
    obtaining copies of any of these documents.
        EPA considers all comments received during the comment period. 
    During the comment period, comments are placed in the Headquarters 
    docket and are available to the public on an ``as received'' basis. A 
    complete set of comments will be available for viewing in the Regional 
    docket approximately one week after the formal comment period closes. 
    Comments received after the comment period closes will be available in 
    the Headquarters docket and in the Regional docket on an ``as 
    received'' basis. Comments that include complex or voluminous reports, 
    or materials prepared for purposes other than HRS scoring, should point 
    out the specific information that EPA should consider and how it 
    affects individual HRS factor values. See Northside Sanitary Landfill 
    v. Thomas, 849 F.2d 1516 (D.C. Cir. 1988). EPA will make final listing 
    decisions after considering the relevant comments received during the 
    comment period.
        In past rules, EPA has attempted to respond to late comments, or 
    when that was not practicable, to read all late comments and address 
    those that brought to the Agency's attention a fundamental error in the 
    scoring of a site. Although EPA intends to pursue the same policy with 
    sites in this rule, EPA can guarantee that it will consider only those 
    comments postmarked by the close of the formal comment period. EPA has 
    a policy of not delaying a final listing decision solely to accommodate 
    consideration of late comments.
        In certain instances, interested parties have written to EPA 
    concerning sites which were not at that time proposed to the NPL. If 
    those sites are later proposed to the NPL, parties should review their 
    earlier concerns and, if still appropriate, resubmit those concerns for 
    consideration during the formal comment period. Site-specific 
    correspondence received prior to the period of formal proposal and 
    comment will not generally be included in the docket.
    
    Contents of This Proposed Rule
    
        Table 1 identifies the 13 sites in the General Superfund Section 
    being proposed to the NPL in this rule. Table 2 identifies the 2 sites 
    in the Federal Facilities Section being proposed to the NPL in this 
    rule. These tables follow this preamble. All sites are proposed based 
    on HRS scores of 28.50 or above. The sites in Table 1 and Table 2 are 
    listed alphabetically by State, for ease of identification, with group 
    number identified to provide an indication of relative ranking. To 
    determine group number, sites on the NPL are placed in groups of 50; 
    for example, a site in Group 4 of this proposal has a score that falls 
    within the range of scores covered by the fourth group of 50 sites on 
    the NPL.
        This action along with a final rule published elsewhere in today's 
    Federal Register, results in an NPL of 1,227 sites, 1,073 in the 
    General Superfund Section and 154 in the Federal Facilities Section. An 
    additional 52 sites are now proposed and are awaiting final agency 
    action, 47 in the General Superfund Section and 5 in the Federal 
    Facilities Section. Final and proposed sites now total 1,279.
    
    III. Executive Order 12866
    
        The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) has exempted this 
    regulatory action from Executive Order 12866 review.
    
    IV. Unfunded Mandates
    
        Title II of the Unfunded Mandates Reform Act of 1995 (UMRA), Pub. 
    L. 104-4, establishes requirements for Federal agencies to assess the 
    effects of their regulatory actions on State, local, and tribal 
    governments and the private sector. Under section 202 of the UMRA, EPA 
    generally must prepare a written statement, including a cost-benefit 
    analysis, for proposed and final rules with ``Federal mandates'' that 
    may result in expenditures to State, local, and tribal governments, in 
    the aggregate, or to the private sector, of $100 million or more in any 
    one year. When a written statement is needed for an EPA rule,
    
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    section 205 of the UMRA generally requires EPA to identify and consider 
    a reasonable number of regulatory alternatives and adopt the least 
    costly, most cost-effective or least burdensome alternative that 
    achieves the objectives of the rule. The provisions of section 205 do 
    not apply when they are inconsistent with applicable law. Moreover, 
    section 205 allows EPA to adopt an alternative other than the least 
    costly, most cost-effective or least burdensome alternative if the 
    Administrator publishes with the final rule an explanation why that 
    alternative was not adopted. Before EPA establishes any regulatory 
    requirements that may significantly or uniquely affect small 
    governments, including tribal governments, it must have developed under 
    section 203 of the UMRA a small government agency plan. The plan must 
    provide for notifying potentially affected small governments, giving 
    them meaningful and timely input in the development of EPA regulatory 
    proposals with significant Federal intergovernmental mandates, and 
    informing, educating, and advising small governments on compliance with 
    the regulatory requirements.
        Today's rule contains no Federal mandates (within the meaning of 
    Title II of the UMRA) for State, local, or tribal governments or the 
    private sector. Nor does it contain any regulatory requirements that 
    might significantly or uniquely affect small governments. This is 
    because today's listing decision does not impose any enforceable duties 
    upon any of these governmental entities or the private sector. 
    Inclusion of a site on the NPL does not itself impose any costs. It 
    does not establish that EPA necessarily will undertake remedial action, 
    nor does it require any action by a private party or determine its 
    liability for site response costs. Costs that arise out of site 
    responses result from site-by-site decisions about what actions to 
    take, not directly from the act of listing itself. Therefore, today's 
    rulemaking is not subject to the requirements of sections 202, 203 or 
    205 of the Unfunded Mandates Reform Act.
    
    V. Governor's Concurrence
    
        On May 2, 1996, Congress enacted the Omnibus Consolidated 
    Rescissions and Appropriations Act of 1996 Public Law (Pub. L.) 104-
    134, which established federal government spending limitations for the 
    fiscal year ending September 30, 1996. Pub. L. 104-134 provides that 
    EPA may not use funds made available for fiscal year 1996 ``to propose 
    for listing or to list any additional facilities on the National 
    Priorities List * * * unless the Administrator receives a written 
    request to propose for listing or to list a facility from the Governor 
    of the State in which the facility is located. * * *'' EPA has received 
    letters from the appropriate governors requesting that the Agency list 
    on the NPL all the facilities in this rule with one exception. EPA 
    received a letter for the Del Amo site from the State environmental 
    agency with prior verbal agreement from the Governor of California. 
    These letters are available in the docket for this rulemaking.
    
    VI. Effect on Small Businesses
    
        The Regulatory Flexibility Act of 1980 requires EPA to review the 
    impacts of this action on small entities, or certify that the action 
    will not have a significant impact on a substantial number of small 
    entities. By small entities, the Act refers to small businesses, small 
    government jurisdictions, and nonprofit organizations.
        While this rule proposes to revise the NPL, an NPL revision is not 
    a typical regulatory change since it does not automatically impose 
    costs. As stated above, adding sites to the NPL does not in itself 
    require any action by any party, nor does it determine the liability of 
    any party for the cost of cleanup at the site. Further, no identifiable 
    groups are affected as a whole. As a consequence, impacts on any group 
    are hard to predict. A site's inclusion on the NPL could increase the 
    likelihood of adverse impacts on responsible parties (in the form of 
    cleanup costs), but at this time EPA cannot identify the potentially 
    affected businesses or estimate the number of small businesses that 
    might also be affected.
        The Agency does expect that placing the sites in this proposed rule 
    on the NPL could significantly affect certain industries, or firms 
    within industries, that have caused a proportionately high percentage 
    of waste site problems. However, EPA does not expect the listing of 
    these sites to have a significant economic impact on a substantial 
    number of small businesses.
        In any case, economic impacts would occur only through enforcement 
    and cost-recovery actions, which EPA takes at its discretion on a site-
    by-site basis. EPA considers many factors when determining enforcement 
    actions, including not only a firm's contribution to the problem, but 
    also its ability to pay. The impacts (from cost recovery) on small 
    governments and nonprofit organizations would be determined on a 
    similar case-by-case basis.
        For the foregoing reasons, I hereby certify that this proposed 
    rule, if promulgated, will not have a significant economic impact on a 
    substantial number of small entities. Therefore, this proposed 
    regulation does not require a regulatory flexibility analysis.
    
      National Priorities List Proposed Rule #20, General Superfund Section 
           [Number of Sites Proposed to General Superfund Section: 13]      
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        State              Site name              City/County       NPL Gr 1
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    CA...........  Del Amo..................  Los Angeles........  22       
    FL...........  MRI Corp (Tampa).........  Tampa..............  16       
    FL...........  Stauffer Chemical Co       Tampa..............  1        
                    (Tampa).                                                
    IL...........  Circle Smelting Corp.....  Beckemeyer.........  1        
    IL...........  Sauget Area 1............  Sauget.............  1        
    LA...........  Madisonville Creosote      Madisonville.......  7        
                    Works.                                                  
    MD...........  Central Chemical           Hagerstown.........  5/6      
                    (Hagerstown).                                           
    NH...........  Beede Waste Oil..........  Plaistow...........  1        
    NY...........  Cross County Sanitation    Patterson..........  5/6      
                    Landfill.                                               
    PR...........  V&M/Albaladejo...........  Vega Baja..........  5/6      
    SC...........  Shuron Inc...............  Barnwell...........  1        
    TX...........  Tex-Tin Corp.............  Texas City.........  5/6      
    WV...........  Sharon Steel Corp          Fairmont...........  2        
                    (Fairmont Coke Works).                                  
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    \1\ Sites are placed in groups (Gr) corresponding to groups of 50 on the
      final NPL.                                                            
    
    
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     National Priorities List Proposed Rule #20, Federal Facilities Section 
            [Number of Sites Proposed to Federal Facility Section: 2]       
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        State              Site name              City/County       NPL Gr 1
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    FL...........  Tyndall Air Force Base...  Panama City........  5/6      
    VA...........  Sewells Point Naval        Norfolk............  5/6      
                    Complex.                                                
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    \1\ Sites are placed in groups (Gr) corresponding to groups of 50 on the
      final NPL.                                                            
    
    List of Subjects in 40 CFR Part 300
    
        Air pollution control, Chemicals, Environmental Protection, 
    Hazardous materials, Intergovernmental relations, Natural resources, 
    Oil pollution, Reporting and recordkeeping requirements, Superfund, 
    Waste treatment and disposal, Water pollution control, Water supply.
    
        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.
    
        Dated: June 6, 1996.
    Elliott P. Laws,
    Assistant Administrator, Office of Solid Waste and Emergency Response.
    [FR Doc. 96-15033 Filed 6-14-96; 8:45 am]
    BILLING CODE 6560-50-P
    
    

Document Information

Published:
06/17/1996
Department:
Environmental Protection Agency
Entry Type:
Proposed Rule
Action:
Proposed rule.
Document Number:
96-15033
Dates:
Comments must be submitted on or before August 16, 1996.
Pages:
30575-30579 (5 pages)
Docket Numbers:
FRL-5520-3
PDF File:
96-15033.pdf
CFR: (1)
40 CFR 300