[Federal Register Volume 63, Number 187 (Monday, September 28, 1998)]
[Rules and Regulations]
[Pages 51529-51530]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 98-25754]


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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

40 CFR Part 300

[FRL-6168-2]


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

AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency.

ACTION: Notice of partial deletion of portions of the Sangamo Weston/
Twelve Mile Creek/Lake Hartwell (Sangamo) Superfund Site from the 
National Priorities List.

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SUMMARY: The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announces the 
partial deletion of the Sangamo site in Pickens, South Carolina from 
the National Priorities List (NPL). The portion to be deleted is 
described below. 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 (CERCLA), as amended. EPA and the State of South Carolina have 
determined that all appropriate Fund-financed responses under CERCLA 
have been implemented on the portions of the property targeted for this 
partial deletion and that no further cleanup by responsible parties is 
appropriate. Moreover, EPA and the State of South Carolina Department 
of Health and Environmental Control have determined that remedial 
actions conducted on these portions of the property at the site to date 
remain protective of public health, welfare, and the environment.

EFFECTIVE DATE: September 28, 1998.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Sheri Panabaker, Remedial Project 
Manager, U.S. EPA, Region 4, 61 Forsyth Street, WD-NSMB, Atlanta, GA 
30303, 404/562-8810.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The area to be deleted from the NPL is a 
portion of the Sangamo Superfund Site, Pickens, South Carolina. The 
portions to be deleted include: three of the off-site remote properties 
(Trotter, Nix, and Welborn), as well as unused property across Sangamo 
Road from the plant site. Contaminated soils were removed from the 
three remote sites and taken to the plant site where they were treated 
with all the other contaminated soils by thermal desorption. 
Confirmational sampling from the unused property across the street from 
the plant site, did not show any contamination. This partial deletion 
does not include all site soil actions nor the groundwater remedial 
action which will remain on the NPL. A Notice of Intent to Delete for 
this site was published in the Federal Register on August 17, 1998 (63 
FR 43900). The closing date for comments on the Notice of Intent to 
Delete was September 16, 1998. EPA received no comments during this 
period.
    The 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 300.66(c)(8) of the NCP states that 
fund-financed actions may be taken at sites deleted from the NPL. 
Deletion of a site or a portion of a site from the NPL does not affect 
responsible party liability or impede agency efforts to recover cost 
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: September 18, 1998.
Phyllis Hall,
Acting Deputy Regional Administrator, Region 4.

    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., 351; E.O. 12580; 52 FR 2923, 
3 CFR, 1987 Comp., p. 193.

    2. Table 1 of Appendix B to part 300 is amended by revising the 
entry for ``Sangamo Weston/Twelve-Mile/Hartwell PCB, Pickens, South 
Carolina'' to read as follows:

Appendix B to Part 300--National Priorities List

                   Table 1.--General Superfund Section
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     State             Site name           City/County       Notes (a)
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SC.............  Sangamo Weston/Twelve- Pickens.........  P
                  Mile/Hartwell PCB.
*                  *                  *                  *
         *                  *                  *
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(a) * * *
P = Sites with partial deletion(s).

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