[Federal Register Volume 73, Number 90 (Thursday, May 8, 2008)]
[Rules and Regulations]
[Pages 26025-26026]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E8-10316]


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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

40 CFR Part 300

[FRL-8564-1]


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

AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency.

ACTION: Notice of Deletion for the Tabernacle Drum Dump Superfund Site 
from the National Priorities List.

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SUMMARY: The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Region 2 Office 
announces the deletion of the Tabernacle Drum Dump Superfund Site from 
the National Priorities List (NPL). The Tabernacle Drum Dump Site is 
located in Tabernacle Township, Burlington County, New Jersey. The NPL 
constitutes 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 of 1980 (CERCLA), as amended. 
EPA and the State of New Jersey, through the Department of 
Environmental Protection (NJDEP) have determined that all appropriate 
response actions have been implemented and no further response actions 
are required. In addition, EPA and the NJDEP have determined that the 
remedial action taken at the Tabernacle Drum Dump Site is protective of 
public health, welfare, and the environment.

DATES: Effective Date: May 8, 2008.

ADDRESSES: EPA has established a docket for this action under Docket 
Identification No. EPA-HQ-SFUND-2005-0011. All documents in the docket 
are listed on the http://www.regulations.gov Web site. Although listed 
in the index, some information is not publicly available, i.e., 
Confidential Business Information or other information whose disclosure 
is restricted by statute. Certain other material, such as copyrighted 
material, is not placed on the Internet and will be publicly available 
only in hard copy form. Publicly available docket materials are 
available either electronically through http://www.regulations.gov or 
in hard copy at the site information repositories. Locations, contacts, 
phone numbers and viewing hours are: EPA's Region 2 Superfund Records 
Center, 290 Broadway, Room 1828, New York, New York 10007-1866, (212) 
637-4308. Hours: 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday, excluding 
holidays, by appointment only.
    Information on the Site is also available for viewing at the Site's 
information repository located at: Tabernacle Municipal Building, 163 
Carranza Road, Tabernacle, New Jersey 08088.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Douglas Tomchuk, Remedial Project 
Manager, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Region 2, 290 Broadway, 
19th Floor, New York, New York 10007-1866, (212) 637-3956.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The site to be deleted from the NPL is the 
Tabernacle Drum Dump Superfund Site, located in Tabernacle Township, 
Burlington County, New Jersey.
    A Notice of Intent to Delete for the Tabernacle Drum Dump Superfund 
Site was published in the Federal Register on September 24, 2007. The 
closing date for comments on the Notice of Intent to Delete was October 
24, 2007. Two letters were received by EPA on the proposed deletion 
during the public comment period. One of the letters simply asked for 
clarification of the ability to continue site restoration after the 
deletion. The second letter provided support for the deletion of the 
Tabernacle Drum Dump Site. EPA responded to the letters in January 
2008. A responsiveness summary was prepared and placed in both the 
docket, EPA-HQ-SFUND-2005-0011, on http://www.regulations.gov, and in 
the local repositories listed above.
    EPA's decision to propose the site for deletion was based on the 
successful implementation of the remedy, which

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included removal and off-site disposal of contaminated drums, 
containers and soil from the disposal site, and ground water 
extraction, treatment and re-injection into the ground, thereby 
mitigating risks to human health and the environment. Post-remediation 
ground water monitoring for five years confirmed that the remedy is 
protective of human health and the environment.
    EPA identifies sites that appear to present a significant risk to 
public health, welfare, or the environment and it maintains the NPL as 
the list of those sites. As described in Sec.  300.425(e)(3) of the 
NCP, any site or portion thereof deleted from the NPL remains eligible 
for remedial actions in the unlikely event that conditions at the site 
warrant such action in the future. 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, Air pollution controls, Chemicals, 
Hazardous substances, Hazardous waste, Intergovernmental relations, 
Penalties, Reporting and recordkeeping requirements, Superfund, Water 
pollution control, Water supply.

    Dated: April 11, 2008.
Alan J. Steinberg,
Regional Administrator, Region 2.

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For the reasons set out in the preamble, Part 300, Chapter I of Title 
40 of 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. 9601-9675; 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.


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2. Table 1 of Appendix B to Part 300 is amended by removing 
``Tabernacle Drum Dump Superfund Site, Tabernacle Township, New 
Jersey.''

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