[Federal Register Volume 76, Number 157 (Monday, August 15, 2011)]
[Proposed Rules]
[Pages 50441-50442]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2011-20741]


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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

40 CFR Part 300

[EPA-HQ-SFUND-1983-0002; FRL-9451-6]


National Oil and Hazardous Substance Pollution Contingency Plan; 
National Priorities List: Deletion of the Sayreville Landfill Superfund 
Site

AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency.

ACTION: Proposed rule.

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SUMMARY: The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Region 2 is issuing 
a Notice of Intent to Delete the Sayreville Landfill Superfund Site 
(Site) located in Borough of Sayreville, Middlesex County, New Jersey 
from the National Priorities List (NPL) and requests public comments on 
this proposed action. The NPL, promulgated pursuant to section 105 of 
the Comprehensive

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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 
New Jersey, through the New Jersey Department of Environmental 
Protection, 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 this Site must be received by September 14, 
2011.

ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, identified by Docket ID no. EPA-HQ-
SFUND--1983-0002, by one of the following methods:
     http://www.regulations.gov Follow on-line instructions for 
submitting comments.
     E-mail: [email protected] Diane Salkie, Remedial 
Project Manager.
     Fax: (212) 637-4393.
     Mail: Diane Salkie, Remedial Project Manager, Emergency 
and Remedial Response Division, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, 
Region 2, 290 Broadway, 19th Floor, New York, NY 10007-1866
     Hand delivery: Superfund Records Center, 290 Broadway, 
18th Floor, New York, NY 10007-1866 (telephone: 212-637-4308). Such 
deliveries are only accepted during the Docket's normal hours of 
operation (Monday thru Friday from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.). Special 
arrangements should be made for deliveries of boxed information.
    Instructions: Direct your comments to Docket ID No. EPA-HQ-SFUND-
1983-0002. 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 address will be 
automatically captured and included as part of the comment that is 
placed in the public docket and made available on 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. Although listed in the index, some 
information is not publicly available, e.g., CBI or other information 
whose disclosure is restricted by statue. Certain other material, such 
as copyrighted material, will be publicly available only in the hard 
copy. Publicly available docket materials are available either 
electronically in http://www.regulations.gov or in hard copy at:
    U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Region 2, Superfund Records 
Center, 290 Broadway, Room 1828, New York, New York 10007-1866, Phone: 
212-637-4308; Hours: Monday through Friday from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., and
    New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection, 401 East State 
Street, Trenton, New Jersey 08625-0402, Phone: 609-777-3373.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Diane Salkie, Remedial Project 
Manager, by mail at Emergency and Remedial Response Division, U.S. 
Environmental Protection Agency, Region 2, 290 Broadway, 19th Floor, 
New York, NY 10007-1866; telephone at 212-637-4370; fax at 212-637-
4393; or e-mail at [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 
Sayreville Landfill 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 incorporated herein. If we 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 waste, Hazardous substances, 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: August 4, 2011.
Judith Enck,
Regional Administrator, Region 2.
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