[Federal Register Volume 71, Number 144 (Thursday, July 27, 2006)]
[Proposed Rules]
[Pages 42623-42624]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E6-11811]


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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

40 CFR Part 300

[EPA-HQ-SFUND-1990-0011; FRL-8202-9]


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

AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency.

ACTION: Notice of intent to delete the Arctic Surplus Superfund Site 
from the National Priorities List.

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SUMMARY: The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is issuing a notice 
of intent to delete the Arctic Surplus Superfund Site (Site) located in 
Fairbanks, Alaska, from the National Priorities List (NPL) and requests 
public comments on this notice of intent. The NPL, promulgated pursuant 
to section 105 of the Comprehensive Environmental Response, 
Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA) OF 1980, as amended, is found 
at Appendix B of 40 CFR part 300 of the National Oil and Hazardous 
Substances Pollution Contingency Plan (NCP). The EPA and the State of 
Alaska, through the Alaska Department of Environmental Conservation, 
have determined that all appropriate response actions under CERCLA, 
other than operation and maintenance and five-year reviews, have been 
completed. However, this deletion does not preclude future actions 
under Superfund.

DATES: Comments concerning this site must be received by August 28, 
2006.

ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, identified by Docket ID No. EPA-HQ-
SFUND-1990-0011, by one of the following methods:
     http://www.regulations.gov. Follow the online instruction 
for submitting comments.
     E-mail: [email protected].
     Fax: (907) 271-3424.
     Mail: Jacques L. Gusmano, Remedial Project Manager, U.S. 
Environmental Protection Agency, Region 10, Alaska Operations Office, 
222 West 7th Avenue, Suite 19, Anchorage, Alaska 99513.
     Hand Delivery: 222 West 7th Avenue, Suite 19, Anchorage, 
Alaska 99513. Such deliveries are only accepted during the Docket's 
normal hours of operation, and special arrangements should be made for 
deliveries of boxed information.
    Instructions: Direct your comments to Docket ID No. EPA-HQ-SF-1990-
0011. EPA's policy is that all comments received will be included in 
the public docket without change and may be made available online at 
http://www.regulations.gov including any personal information provided, 
unless the comment includes information claimed to be Confidential 
Business Information (CBI) or other information whose disclosure is 
restricted by statute. Do not submit information that you consider to 
be CBI or otherwise protected through http://www.regulations.gov or e-
mail. The http://www.regulations.gov. Web site is an ``anonymous 
access'' system, which means EPA will not know your identity or contact 
information unless you provide it in the body of your comment. If you 
send an e-mail comment directly to EPA without going through http://www.regulations.gov, your e-mail will be automatically captured and 
included as part of the comment that is placed in the public docket and 
made available on

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the Internet. If you submit an electronic comment, EPA recommends that 
you include your name and other contact information in the body of your 
comment and with any disk or CD-ROM you submit. If EPA cannot read your 
comment due to technical difficulties and cannot contact you for 
clarification, EPA may not be able to consider your comment. Electronic 
files should avoid the use of special characters, any form of 
encryption, and be free of any defects or viruses.
    Docket: All documents in the docket are listed in the http://www.regulations.gov index in the Deletion Docket Bibliography. Although 
listed in the index, some information is not publicly available, e.g., 
CBI or other information whose disclosure is restricted by statute. 
Certain other material, such as copyrighted material, will be publicly 
available only in hard copy. Deletion Docket materials are available 
electronically or in hard copy at the EPA's Region 10 Superfund Records 
Center, 1200 Sixth Avenue, Seattle, Washington 98101 and the Defense 
Reutilization & Marketing Office (Administrative Records) Building 
5001, Mile Badger Road, Fairbanks, AK 99703 at (907) 353-1143. The 
Region 10 Superfund Records Center is open from 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. by 
appointment, Monday through Friday, excluding legal holidays The 
Superfund Records Center telephone number is (206) 553-4494.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Jacques L. Gusmano, Remedial Project 
Manager, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Region 10, Alaska 
Operations Office, 222 West 7th Avenue, Suite 19, Anchorage, Alaska 
99513, phone: (907) 271-1271, fax: (907) 271-3424, e-mail: 
[email protected].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: In the ``Rules and Regulations'' section of 
today's Federal Register, we are publishing a direct final notice of 
deletion of the Arctic Surplus Superfund Site without prior notice of 
intent to delete because we view this as a noncontroversial revision 
and anticipate no adverse comment. We have explained our reasons for 
this deletion in the preamble to the direct final deletion. If we 
receive no adverse comment(s) on this notice of intent to delete or the 
direct final notice of deletion, we will not take further action on 
this final notice of deletion. If we receive adverse comment(s), we 
will withdraw the direct final notice of deletion and it will not take 
effect. We will, as appropriate, address all public comments in a 
subsequent final deletion notice based on this notice of intent to 
delete. We will not institute a second comment period on this notice of 
intent to delete. Any parties interested in commenting must, do so at 
this time. For additional information, see the direct final notice of 
deletion which is located in the Rules section of this Federal 
Register.

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.

    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.

    Dated: July 18, 2006.
Michelle Pirzadeh,
Acting Regional Administrator, Region 10.
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