[Federal Register Volume 68, Number 98 (Wednesday, May 21, 2003)]
[Rules and Regulations]
[Pages 27746-27747]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 03-12476]


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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

40 CFR Part 300

[FRL-7499-8]


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

AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

ACTION: Notice of partial deletion of Cecil Field Naval Air Station 
(Site) From the National Priorities List (NPL).

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SUMMARY: The Environmental Protection Agency, Region 4, announces the 
partial deletion of the Cecil Field Naval Air Station Superfund Site 
(the ``Site'') (EPA ID FL 5170022474) from the National 
Priorities List (NPL). The portion to be deleted is described below. 
The NPL is codified as appendix B to 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 (CERCLA), as amended, 42 
U.S.C. 9605. The EPA has determined, with the concurrence of the State 
of Florida through its Department of Environmental Protection, that the 
parcels to be deleted under this action do not pose a significant 
threat to public health or the environment, as defined by CERCLA, and 
therefore, further remedial measures pursuant to CERCLA are not 
appropriate for these parcels.
    The remaining parcels comprising the Cecil Field Naval Air Station 
Superfund Site will remain on the NPL. Response actions are either 
underway at these parcels or the parcels do not require any further 
response action other than operation and maintenance activities and 
enforcement.

EFFECTIVE DATE: June 20, 2003.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Deborah A. Vaughn-Wright, Remedial 
Project Manager, Federal Facilities Branch, Waste Management Division, 
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, 61 Forsyth Street, Atlanta, 
Georgia 30303, 404-562-8539, fax 404-562-8518, e-mail [email protected].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The portions of Cecil Field to be deleted 
from the NPL include OU 4 (site 10), OU 5 (site 14), OU 12 (sites 44, 
42 and the Old Golf Course) and an additional 16,527 acres which are 
not associated with an operable unit that have been evaluated as not 
posing a risk to human health and the environment (BRAC environmental 
condition of property 1, 2, 3 and 4).
    The boundaries of the base are within the following coordinates: 
30.3012 North Latitude, 81.9306 West Longitude; 30.3012 North Latitude, 
81.9244 West Longitude; 30.3063 North Latitude, 81.8781 West Longitude; 
30.2468 North Latitude, 81.8445 West Longitude; 30.1784 North Latitude, 
81.8676 West Longitude; 30.1783 North Latitude, 81.8847 West Longitude. 
Within these coordinates are several areas which are not part of this 
partial deletion. The areas not included are Building 635, Building 
605, Potential Source of Contamination (PSC) 51 (Current golf Course), 
Operable Unit (OU) 1 (Sites 1--Old Landfill and Site 2--recent 
landfill), OU 2 (Site 5--Oil Disposal Area Northwest and Site 17--Oil 
and Sludge Disposal Pit Southwest), OU 3 (Site 7--Old Firefighter 
Training Area and Site 8--Boresite Range/Hazardous Waste Storage/
Firefighting Area), OU 5 (Site 15--Blue 10 Ordnance Disposal Area, Site 
49--Recent Skeet Range), OU 6 (site 11--Golf Course Pesticide Disposal 
Area), OU 7, (Site 16--AIMD Seepage Pit/NDI Holding Tank), OU 8 (Site 
3--Oil and Sludge Disposal Pit), OU 9 (Site 36--Control Tower TCE 
Plume, Site 37--Hangars 13 and 14 DCE Plume, Site 57--Building 824A/Day 
Tank 1 Area, and Site 58--Building 312 Area), OU 10 (Site 21--Golf 
Course Maintenance Area and Site 25--Former Transformer Storage Area), 
OU 11 (Site 45--Former Steam Generating Plant), and OU 12 (Site 32--
Former DRMO Area). A Notice of Intent to Delete for this site was 
published in the Federal Register on January 29, 2003 (68 FR 4429). The 
closing date for comments on the Notice of Intent to Delete was March 
31, 2003. 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. Deletion from the NPL does not necessarily 
preclude further remedial action. Federal Facilities are not subject of 
the Hazardous Substances Response Fund (Fund) financed remedial 
actions. However, all federal facilities have a continuing statutory 
duty to conduct further remediation, if required even after the federal 
property is transferred to non-federal owners.

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.

    Dated: April 18, 2003.
A. Stanley Melburg,
Acting Regional Administrator, Region 4.

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For the reasons set out in the preamble, 40 CFR part 300, Title 40 of 
Chapter 1 of

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the Code of Federal Regulations is amended as follows:

PART 300--[AMENDED]

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1. The authority citation for part 300 continues to read as follows:

    Authority: 42 U.S.C. 9601-9657; 33 U.S.C. 1321(c)(2); 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]

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2. Table 2 of appendix B to part 300 is amended by revising the entry 
for Cecil Field Naval Air Station to read as follows:

Appendix B to Part 300--National Priorities List

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                                      Table 2.--Federal Facilities Section
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                    St                              Site name                   City/County           Notes (a)
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FL.......................................  Cecil Field Naval Air        Jacksonville...............          P
                                            Station.
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(a) * * *
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P=Sites within partial deletion(s).


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