[Federal Register Volume 61, Number 27 (Thursday, February 8, 1996)]
[Rules and Regulations]
[Pages 4747-4748]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 96-2718]



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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
40 CFR Part 300

[FRL-5418-4]


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

AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency.

ACTION: Notice of deletion of the Clothier Disposal site from the 
National Priorities List (NPL).

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SUMMARY: The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Region II, 
announces the deletion of the Clothier Disposal site 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 
(CERCLA), as amended. EPA and the State of New York have determined 
that all appropriate responses under CERCLA have been implemented, and 
that no further cleanup by responsible parties is appropriate. 
Moreover, EPA and the State of New York have determined that remedial 
actions conducted at the site to date have been protective of public 
health, welfare, and the environment.

EFFECTIVE DATE: February 8, 1996.

ADDRESSES: For further information contact: Herbert H. King, Remedial 
Project Manager, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Region II, 290 
Broadway, 20th floor, New York, NY 10007-1866.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Herbert H. King at (212) 637-4268.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The site to be deleted from the NPL is: 
Clothier Disposal site, Granby, New York.
    The closing date for comments on the Notice of Intent to Delete was 
October 15, 1995. EPA received one comment letter from the counsel for 
the Settling Defendants (a group of potentially responsible parties 
associated with the site who entered into a consent decree with the 
government to pay for the government's past costs and to remediate the 
site), indicating that the Settling Defendants support deleting the 
site from the NPL, and requesting that the description of the 
activities that were undertaken by the Settling Defendants after the 
discovery of three buried drums during the first long-term monitoring 
event at the site be amplified. EPA acknowledges the Settling 
Defendants' efforts subsequent to the discovery of three buried drums, 
which included a geophysical investigation in the area surrounding the 
drum-discovery site, the excavation of trenches through two magnetic 
anomalies identified by the geophysical investigation, the excavation 
of metallic debris discovered in one trench, and the off-site disposal 
of the metallic debris and the three buried drums. Based on these 
efforts and the associated findings, EPA concluded that no further 
remedial or investigatory work was necessary at the site.
    EPA identifies sites which appear to present a significant risk to 
public health, welfare, or the environment and it maintains the NPL as 
the list of those sites. Sites on the NPL may be the subject of 
Hazardous Substance Response Trust Fund (Fund)-financed remedial 
actions. 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 EPA's 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.


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    Dated: January 2, 1996.
William J. Muszynski,
Acting Regional Administrator.
    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 
Clothier Disposal site, Granby, New York.
[FR Doc. 96-2718 Filed 2-7-96; 8:45 am]
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