[Federal Register Volume 61, Number 230 (Wednesday, November 27, 1996)]
[Rules and Regulations]
[Pages 60197-60198]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 96-29926]


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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
40 CFR Part 300

[FRL-5654-1]


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

AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

ACTION: Notice of Partial Deletion of the Lakewood 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 Lakewood Site, located in Lakewood, 
Pierce County, Washington from the National Priorities List (NPL). The 
portion of the site to be deleted is the soil unit and includes all 
contaminated soil/sludge related to the site. 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 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 27, 1996.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Ann Williamson, Remedial Project 
Manager, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Region 10, 1200 6th 
Avenue, ECL-113, Seattle, WA 98101; (206) 553-2739.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The site to be partially deleted from the 
NPL is the Lakewood Site located in Lakewood, Pierce County, 
Washington.
    This partial deletion pertains only to the soil unit and includes 
all contaminated soil/sludge on the Plaza Cleaners property. The soil 
unit is confined to an area on the Plaza Cleaners property. The 
Lakewood Site, including the plume of contaminated ground water, is 
predominantly residential to the north of the Burlington Northern 
Railroad tracks and commercial/light industrial along Pacific Highway 
Southwest. Lakewood Water District's two production wells are located 
within a fenced area immediately across Interstate 5. Residential 
property lies to the east and McChord Air Force Base to the southeast 
of the wells.
    A plume of contaminated ground water, resulting from former 
disposal practices at Plaza Cleaners, continues to require treatment 
via air stripping at the Lakewood Water District production wells. 
Therefore, the ground-water unit will remain on the NPL and is not the 
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 27, 1996 (61 FR 
50788). The closing date for comments on the Notice of Intent to Delete 
was October 26, 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: November 14, 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 removing the 
entry for Lakewood Site, Lakewood County, Washington, and adding in its 
place an entry for Lakewood, Lakewood/Pierce County, Washington, to 
read as follows:

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                   Table 1.--General Superfund Section                  
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        State               Site name           City/county       Notes 
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WA                    Lakewood              Lakewood/Pierce         P   
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P=Sites with partial deletion(s).                                       
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