[Federal Register Volume 66, Number 130 (Friday, July 6, 2001)]
[Rules and Regulations]
[Page 35547]
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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

40 CFR Part 300

[FRL-7007-4]


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

AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency.

ACTION: Notice of deletion of the Warwick Landfill Superfund site from 
the National Priorities List.

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SUMMARY: The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announces the 
deletion of the Warwick Landfill Superfund site (Site), located in the 
Town of Warwick, Orange County, New York, from the National Priorities 
List (NPL). The NPL constitutes appendix B of the National Oil and 
Hazardous Substances Pollution Contingency Plan (NCP), 40 CFR part 300, 
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 New York have determined 
that all appropriate response actions pursuant to CERCLA have been 
implemented; and, aside from monitoring, operation and maintenance, no 
further response actions pursuant to CERCLA are appropriate.

EFFECTIVE DATE: July 6, 2001.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Damian J. Duda, Remedial Project 
Manager, Emergency and Remedial Response Division, U.S. Environmental 
Protection Agency, Region II, 290 Broadway, 20th Floor, New York, New 
York 10007-1866, (212) 637-4269.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The site to be deleted from the NPL is the 
Warwick Landfill Superfund site, Town of Warwick, Orange County, New 
York.
    A Notice of Proposed Deletion and a Notice of Direct Final Deletion 
for the Site were published on August 15, 2000 (65 FR 49776-49777 and 
65 FR 49739-49741, respectively). In these notices, EPA requested 
public comment on the proposed NPL deletion of the Site until September 
15, 2000. During the 30-day comment period, EPA received correspondence 
offering critical comments. As a result of the critical comments, EPA 
published a Notice of Withdrawal of Direct Final Deletion of the Site 
on October 16, 2000 (65 FR 61112). EPA evaluated the comments received 
and prepared a Responsiveness Summary and has concluded after a review 
of the comments that the Site does not pose a significant threat to 
public health or the environment. Copies of the Responsiveness Summary 
are available at the following repositories: Warwick Town Hall, 132 
Kings Highway, Warwick, New York 10990, (914) 986-1120 and the 
Greenwood Lake Village Hall, Church Street, Greenwood Lake, New York 
10925, (914) 477-9215. The Responsiveness Summary is also available in 
the Administrative Record File, located in the EPA Regional Office.
    EPA identifies sites that appear to present a significant risk to 
public health or the environment, and it maintains the NPL as the 
active list of these sites. As described in 40 CFR 300.425(e)(3) of the 
NCP, any site deleted from the NPL remains eligible for remedial action 
in the unlikely event that conditions at a site warrant such action. 
Deletion of a site from the NPL does not affect the liability of 
potentially responsible parties nor does it impede Agency efforts to 
recover costs associated with response efforts.

List of Subjects in 40 CFR Part 300

    Environmental protection, Chemicals, Hazardous substances, 
Hazardous waste, Intergovernmental relations, Penalties, Superfund, 
Water pollution control, Water supply.

    Dated: June 14, 2001.
William J. Muszynski,
Acting Regional Administrator, Region II.

    Part 300, title 40 of Chapter I of the Code of Federal Regulations 
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 for ``Warwick Landfill, Warwick, New York.''

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