[Federal Register Volume 76, Number 160 (Thursday, August 18, 2011)]
[Proposed Rules]
[Pages 51316-51317]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2011-21122]


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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

40 CFR Part 300

[EPA-HQ-SFUND-1983-0002; FRL-9452-2]


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

AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency.

ACTION: Proposed rule; notice of intent.

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SUMMARY: The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Region II is issuing 
a Notice of Intent to Delete the Barceloneta Landfill Superfund Site 
(Site) located in Florida Afuera, Puerto Rico from the National 
Priorities List (NPL) and requests public comments on this proposed 
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 
Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, through the Puerto Rico Environmental 
Quality Board, 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 must be received by September 19, 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: Luis E. Santos, Remedial Project Manager, 
[email protected].
     Fax: 787-289-7104.
     Mail: Luis E. Santos, Remedial Project Manager, U.S. 
Environmental Protection Agency, Region II, Caribbean Protection 
Division, Centro Europa Building, Suite 417, Ponce de Le[oacute]n Ave., 
Stop 22, San Juan, Puerto Rico 00907-4127.
     Hand delivery: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, 
Region II, Caribbean Protection Division, Centro Europa Building, Suite 
417, Ponce de Le[oacute]n Ave., Stop 22, San Juan, Puerto Rico 00907-
4127. 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-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 II, Superfund Records 
Center, 290 Broadway, 18th Floor, New York, NY 10007-1866, Phone: 212-
637- 4308, Hours: Monday to Friday from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.
     Or
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Region II, Caribbean 
Environmental Protection Division Centro Europa Building, Suite 417, 
1492 Ponce de Le[oacute]n Ave., Stop 22, San Juan, Puerto Rico 00907-
4127, Phone: (787) 977-5802, Hours: 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.--Monday 
through Friday (excluding holidays) Contact: Luis E. Santos

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Luis E. Santos, Remedial Project 
Manager, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Region II, telephone at 
(787) 977-5824; fax at 787-289-7104; 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 
Barceloneta 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 are 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.


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    Dated: August 8, 2011.
Judith Enck,
Regional Administrator, Region 2.
[FR Doc. 2011-21122 Filed 8-17-11; 8:45 am]
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