[Federal Register Volume 74, Number 142 (Monday, July 27, 2009)]
[Proposed Rules]
[Pages 36994-36995]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E9-17564]


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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

40 CFR Part 300

[EPA-HQ-SFUND-2009-0501; FRL-8934-1]


National Oil and Hazardous Substance Pollution Contingency Plan 
National Priorities List

AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency.

ACTION: Notice of Intent to Delete the Southern California Edison, 
Visalia Pole Yard Superfund Site from the National Priorities List.

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SUMMARY: The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Region IX is issuing 
a Notice of Intent to Delete the Southern California Edison (SCE), 
Visalia Pole Yard Superfund Site (Site) located in northeastern 
Visalia, Tulare County, California, from the National Priorities List 
(NPL), and requests public comments on this action. The NPL, 
promulgated pursuant to section 105 of the Comprehensive Environmental 
Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA) of 1980, as amended, 
is an appendix of the National Oil and Hazardous Substances Pollution 
Contingency Plan (NCP). The EPA and the State of California, through 
the Department of Toxic Substances Control (DTSC), have determined that 
all appropriate response actions under CERCLA, other than operation, 
maintenance, and five-year reviews, have been completed. However, this 
deletion does not preclude future actions under Superfund.

DATES: Comments concerning deletion of this Site must be received by 
August 26, 2009.

ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, identified by Docket ID No. EPA-HQ-
SFUND-2009-0501 by one of the following methods:
     http://www.regulations.gov. Follow online instructions for 
submitting comments.
     E-mail: [email protected].
     Fax: (415) 947-3528.
     Mail: Jackie Lane, Community Involvement Coordinator, U.S. 
EPA Region IX (SFD 6-3), 75 Hawthorne Street, San Francisco, California 
94105.
     Phone: (415) 972-3236.
     Hand delivery: U.S. EPA Region IX (SFD 6-3), 75 Hawthorne 
Street, San Francisco, California 94105. Deliveries are only accepted 
during regular office days and hours of operation (Monday through 
Friday, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.). Special arrangements will need to be made 
with EPA staff for deliveries of boxed information.
    Instructions: Direct your comments to Docket ID No. EPA-HQ-SFUND-
2009-0501. 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 that EPA will not know 
your identity or contact information unless it is provided 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 address 
will be automatically captured and included as part of the publicly 
available docket on the Internet. EPA recommends that all submittals 
include your name and other contact information (i.e. e-mail and/or 
physical address and phone number). Please note that electronic file 
submittals should be free of any physical defects and computer viruses 
and avoid the use of special characters and any form of encryption. If 
technical difficulties prevent EPA from reading your comment and cannot 
contact you for clarification, EPA may not be able to consider your 
comment.

Docket

    All documents in the docket are listed in the http://www.regulations.gov index; however, although listed in the index, some 
information is not publicly available (e.g. CBI or other information 
whose disclosure is restricted by disclosure statute. Certain other 
materials, such as copyrighted materials, will be publicly available 
only in the hard copy. All other publicly available docket materials 
are available either electronically in http://www.regulations.gov or in 
hard copy at the Site Information repositories below:

U.S. EPA Superfund Records Center, 95 Hawthorne Street, San Francisco, 
California 94105-3901, (415) 536-2000.
Tulare County Public Library, 200 West Oak Street, Visalia, CA 93291, 
(818) 952-0603.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Charnjit Bhullar, Remedial Project 
Manager, U.S. EPA Region IX (SFD 7-3), 75 Hawthorne Street, San 
Francisco, California 94105, (415) 972-3960.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: In the ``Rules and Regulations'' section of 
today's Federal Register, we are publishing a direct final Notice of 
Deletion of the Southern California Edison (SCE), Visalia Pole Yard 
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 Notice of Deletion, and those reasons are incorporated 
herein. If we

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receive no adverse comment(s) on this deletion action, we will not take 
further action on this Notice of Intent to Delete. 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 Notice of Deletion 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 15, 2009.
Laura Yoshii,
Acting Regional Administrator, Region IX.
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