[Federal Register Volume 61, Number 169 (Thursday, August 29, 1996)]
[Rules and Regulations]
[Page 45336]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 96-21824]
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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
40 CFR Part 300
[FRL-5560-6]
National Oil and Hazardous Substances Pollution Contingency Plan
National Priorities List
AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency.
ACTION: Notice of Deletion of the Leetown Pesticide Site in Leetown,
Jefferson County, West Virginia, from the National Priorities List.
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SUMMARY: The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Region III announces
the deletion of the Leetown Pesticide site (Site) located in Jefferson
County, West Virginia, from the National Priorities List (NPL). The NPL
constitutes Appendix B to 40 CFR Part 300. Part 300 comprises 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 (CERCLA) of
1980, as amended. EPA and the West Virginia Division of Environmental
Protection have determined that all appropriate CERCLA actions have
been implemented and that the Site poses no significant threat to
public health or the environment. Therefore, further remedial measures
pursuant to CERCLA are not needed.
EFFECTIVE DATE: August 29, 1996.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Melissa Whittington (3HW23), Remedial
Project Manager, U.S. EPA Region III, 841 Chestnut Building,
Philadelphia, PA, 19107, (215) 566-3235.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The site to be deleted from the NPL is: the
Leetown Pesticide Site, Leetown, Jefferson County, West Virginia.
A Notice of Intent to Delete this Site was published on June 14,
1996 in the Federal Register (56 FR 11597). The closing date for
comments on the Notice of Intent to Delete was July 15, 1996. EPA did
not receive any comments on the proposed deletion.
EPA identifies sites that appear to present a significant risk to
public health or the environment and maintains the NPL as the list of
those sites. Sites on the NPL may be the subject of remedial actions
financed by the Hazardous Substances Superfund Response Trust Fund
(Fund). Pursuant to 40 CFR 300.425(e)(3), 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 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, Air pollution control, Chemicals,
Hazardous substances, Hazardous waste, Intergovernmental relations,
Penalties, Reporting and recordkeeping requirements, Superfund, Water
pollution control, Water supply.
Dated: August 20, 1996.
W. Michael McCabe,
Regional Administrator, U.S. EPA Region 3.
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
Leetown Pesticide site, Leetown, West Virginia.
[FR Doc. 96-21824 Filed 8-28-96; 8:45 am]
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