[Federal Register Volume 61, Number 217 (Thursday, November 7, 1996)]
[Rules and Regulations]
[Page 57594]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 96-28429]


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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
40 CFR Part 300

[FRL-5646-1]


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

AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency.

ACTION: Notice of partial deletion of the Harbor Island Superfund Site 
from the National Priorities List.

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SUMMARY: The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Region 10 announces 
the deletion of a portion of the Harbor Island Superfund Site, located 
in Seattle, King County, from the National Priorities List (NPL). The 
portion of the site to be deleted is the Lockheed Shipyard Operable 
Unit (OU). The NPL constitutes Appendix B of 40 CFR part 300 which is 
the National Oil and Hazardous Substances 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 Washington Department of Ecology 
(Ecology) have determined that no further cleanup under CERCLA is 
required and that the selected remedy has been protective of public 
health, welfare, and the environment.

EFFECTIVE DATE: November 7, 1996.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mr. Keith Rose, Remedial Project 
Manager, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Region 10, 1200 6th 
Avenue, ECL-111, Seattle, WA 98101, (206) 553-7721.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The site to be partially deleted from the 
NPL is:
    The Harbor Island Site located in Seattle, King County, Washington.
    This partial deletion pertains only to the Lockheed Shipyard OU, 
which is known as OU No. 3. The Lockheed Shipyard OU is located at 2929 
16th Avenue Southwest, and is bounded on the north by the ARCO 
petroleum storage tank facility, on the east by 16th Avenue Southwest, 
on the south by the Fisher Mills facility, and on the west by the West 
Waterway of the Duwamish River. This partial deletion pertains only to 
OU No. 3 of the Harbor Island site. Response activities at OU Nos. 1, 
2, 4, and 5 of this Site are not yet complete and these Ous will remain 
on the National Priorities List and are not subject of this partial 
deletion.
    This partial deletion is in accordance with 40 CFR 300.425(e) and 
the Notice of Policy Change: Partial Deletion of Sites Listed on the 
National Priorities List, 60 FR 55466 (Nov. 1, 1995). A Notice of 
Intent for Partial Deletion was published September 5, 1996, (61 FR 
46749). The closing date for comments on the Notice of Intent to Delete 
was October 7, 1996. EPA did not receive any comments on the proposed 
partial deletion and has not prepared a Responsiveness Summary.
    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-financed remedial actions. Any 
site, or portion of a 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 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 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.

    Dated: October 25, 1996.
Chuck Clarke,
Regional Administrator, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Region 
10.

    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 revising the 
entry for Harbor Island (lead), Seattle, Washington, to read as 
follows:

                   Table 1.--General Superfund Section                  
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        State              Site name        City/county        Notes    
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WA...................  Harbor Island...  Seattle/King      P            
                                          County.                       
                                                                        
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P=Sites with partial deletion(s).                                       

[FR Doc. 96-28429 Filed 11-6-96; 8:45 am]
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