[Federal Register Volume 76, Number 239 (Tuesday, December 13, 2011)]
[Proposed Rules]
[Pages 77457-77458]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2011-31914]


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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

40 CFR Part 300

[EPA-HQ-SFUND-1999-0013; FRL-9503-8]


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

AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

ACTION: Proposed rule; notice of intent.

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SUMMARY: EPA, Region 2, is issuing a Notice of Intent to Delete the 
Hiteman Leather Superfund Site (Site), located in West Winfield, New 
York, 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). 
EPA and the State of New York, through the New York State Department of 
Environmental Conservation, have determined that all appropriate 
response actions under CERCLA, other than monitoring and maintenance 
and five-year reviews, have been completed. However, the deletion does 
not preclude future action under Superfund.

DATES: Comments must be received by January 12, 2012.

ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, identified by Docket ID no. EPA-HQ-
SFUND-1999-0013, by one of the following methods:
    Web site: http://www.regulations.gov. Follow the on-line 
instructions for submitting comments.
    Email: [email protected].
    Fax: To the attention of Thomas Mongelli at (212) 637-3966.
    Mail: To the attention of Thomas Mongelli, Remedial Project 
Manager, Emergency and Remedial Response Division, U.S. Environmental 
Protection Agency, Region 2, 290 Broadway, 20th Floor, New York, NY 
10007-1866.
    Hand Delivery: Superfund Records Center, 290 Broadway, 18th Floor, 
New

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York, NY 10007-1866 (telephone: (212) 637-4308). Such deliveries are 
only accepted during the Record Center's normal hours of operation 
(Monday to 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-
1999-0013: EPA's policy is that all comments received will be included 
in the 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 via 
email. 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 comments. If you 
send comments to EPA via email, your email address will be included as 
part of the comment that is placed in the Docket and made available on 
the Web site. If you submit electronic comments, EPA recommends that 
you include your name and other contact information in the body of your 
comments and with any disks or CD-ROMs that you submit. If EPA cannot 
read your comments due to technical difficulties and cannot contact you 
for clarification, EPA may not be able to consider your comments. 
Electronic files should avoid the use of special characters and any 
form of encryption and should 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 statute. Certain other material, such 
as copyrighted material, will be publicly available only in hard copy. 
Publicly available Docket materials can be viewed electronically at 
http://www.regulations.gov or obtained in hard copy at:

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Region 2, 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. and
West Winfield Library, Bisby Hall, 179 South Street, West Winfield, NY 
13491, Phone: (315) 822-6394, Hours: Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, and 
Friday from 12:30-5:30 p.m., Wednesday from 10 a.m.-12 p.m. and 6-8 
p.m., and Saturdays from 10 a.m.-12 p.m. (Sept.-May).

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Thomas Mongelli, Remedial Project 
Manager, by mail at Emergency and Remedial Response Division, U.S. 
Environmental Protection Agency, Region 2, 290 Broadway, 20th floor, 
New York, NY 10007-1866; telephone at (212) 637-4256; fax at (212) 637-
3966; or email at [email protected].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: In the ``Rules and Regulations'' Section of 
today's Federal Register, EPA is publishing a direct final Notice of 
Deletion of the Site without prior Notice of Intent to Delete because 
EPA views this as a noncontroversial revision and anticipate no adverse 
comment. EPA has explained its reasons for this deletion in the 
preamble to the direct final Notice of Deletion. If EPA receives no 
adverse comment(s) on this Notice of Intent to Delete or the direct 
final Notice of Deletion, EPA will proceed with the deletion without 
further notice on this Notice of Intent to Delete. If EPA receives 
adverse comment(s), EPA will withdraw the direct final Notice of 
Deletion and it will not take effect. EPA will, as appropriate, address 
all public comments in a subsequent final Notice of Deletion based on 
this Notice of Intent to Delete. EPA 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: November 22, 2011.
 Judith A. Enck,
 Regional Administrator, EPA, Region 2.
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