[Federal Register Volume 61, Number 246 (Friday, December 20, 1996)]
[Rules and Regulations]
[Pages 67233-67234]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 96-32089]


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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
40 CFR Part 300

[FRL-5667-2]


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

AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency.

ACTION: Notice of deletion of the Sand Creek Industrial Site from the 
National Priorities List (NPL).

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SUMMARY: The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announces the 
deletion of the Sand Creek Industrial Site (Site) in Colorado, 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), promulgated pursuant to Section 105 of the 
Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act 
of 1980 (CERCLA), as amended. EPA and the State of Colorado have 
determined that the Site poses no significant threat to public health 
or the environment as long as Operation & Maintenance (O & M) is 
implemented as necessary and Institutional Controls are implemented and 
effective. Therefore, no further remedial measures pursuant to CERCLA 
are appropriate. Further, EPA and the State of Colorado have determined 
that all appropriate response actions have been implemented at the Site 
and that no further cleanup by responsible parties is appropriate.

EFFECTIVE DATE: December 20, 1996.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Erna Acheson, Site Manager, U.S. 
Environmental Protection Agency, Region 8, 999 18th Street, Suite 500, 
Mail Stop 8EPR-SR, Denver, Colorado 80202-2466, (303) 312-6762.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The Site to be deleted from the NPL is: Sand 
Creek Industrial Site, Colorado.
    A Notice of Intent to Delete for this Site was published August 28, 
1996 (61 FR 44275 (1996)). The closing date for comments on the Notice 
of Intent to Delete was September 27, 1996. No comments have been 
received.

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    EPA identifies sites that appear to present a significant risk to 
public health, welfare, or the environment and maintains the NPL as a 
list of those sites. Any site deleted from the NPL remains eligible for 
Fund-financed remedial actions in the unlikely event that future 
conditions at the site warrant such action. Section 300.425 (e)(3). 
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, Hazardous waste.

    Dated: November 27, 1996.
Jack W. McGraw,
Acting Regional Administrator, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, 
Region VIII.

    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 
site ``Sand Creek Industrial, Commerce City, Colorado''.

[FR Doc. 96-32089 Filed 12-19-96; 8:45 am]
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