[Federal Register Volume 81, Number 42 (Thursday, March 3, 2016)]
[Notices]
[Pages 11212-11266]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2016-04692]


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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

[FRL-9943-17-OLEM]


Twenty-Ninth Update of the Federal Agency Hazardous Waste 
Compliance Docket

AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: Since 1988, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has 
maintained a Federal Agency Hazardous Waste Compliance Docket 
(``Docket'') under Section 120(c) of the Comprehensive Environmental 
Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA). Section 120(c) 
requires EPA to establish a Docket that contains certain information 
reported to EPA by Federal facilities that manage hazardous waste or 
from which a reportable quantity of hazardous substances has been 
released. As explained further below, the Docket is used to identify 
Federal facilities that should be evaluated to determine if they pose a 
threat to public health or welfare and the environment and to provide a 
mechanism to make this information available to the public.
    This notice includes the complete list of Federal facilities on the 
Docket and also identifies Federal facilities reported to EPA since the 
last update of the Docket on August 17, 2015. In addition to the list 
of additions to the Docket, this notice includes a section with 
revisions of the previous Docket list. Thus, the revisions in this 
update include 7 additions, 22 corrections, and 42 deletions to the 
Docket since the previous update. At the time of publication of this 
notice, the new total number of Federal facilities listed on the Docket 
is 2,326. Since the last update, EPA has identified a discrepancy in 
the total number of facilities published in the Federal Register. The 
number of Docket sites in the Federal Register did not match the number 
of sites on EPA's Master Docket List. EPA has reconciled the 
discrepancies and the list is now and both lists are now matching a 
current. This publication contains the

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entire Docket list to clarify the number of sites.

DATES: This list is current as of February 12, 2016.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Electronic versions of the Docket and 
more information on its implementation can be obtained at http://www.epa.gov/fedfac/previous-federal-agency-hazardous-waste-compliance-docket-updates by clicking on the link for Update #29 to the Federal 
Agency Hazardous Waste Compliance Docket or by contacting Benjamin 
Simes ([email protected]), Federal Agency Hazardous Waste 
Compliance Docket Coordinator, Federal Facilities Restoration and Reuse 
Office (Mail Code 5106P), U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, 1200 
Pennsylvania Avenue NW., Washington, DC 20460.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Table of Contents

1.0 Introduction
2.0 Regional Docket Coordinators
3.0 Revisions of the Previous Docket
4.0 Process for Compiling the Updated Docket
5.0 Facilities Not Included
6.0 Facility NPL Status Reporting, Including NFRAP Status
7.0 Information Contained on Docket Listing

1.0 Introduction

    Section 120(c) of CERCLA, 42 United States Code (U.S.C.) Sec.  
9620(c), as amended by the Superfund Amendments and Reauthorization Act 
of 1986 (SARA), requires EPA to establish the Federal Agency Hazardous 
Waste Compliance Docket. The Docket contains information on Federal 
facilities that manage hazardous waste and such information is 
submitted by Federal agencies to EPA under Sections 3005, 3010, and 
3016 of the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA), 42 U.S.C. 
6925, 6930, and 6937. Additionally, the Docket contains information on 
Federal facilities with a reportable quantity of hazardous substances 
that has been released and such information is submitted by Federal 
agencies to EPA under Section 103 of CERCLA, 42 U.S.C. 9603. 
Specifically, RCRA Section 3005 establishes a permitting system for 
certain hazardous waste treatment, storage, and disposal (TSD) 
facilities; RCRA Section 3010 requires waste generators, transporters 
and TSD facilities to notify EPA of their hazardous waste activities; 
and RCRA Section 3016 requires Federal agencies to submit biennially to 
EPA an inventory of their Federal hazardous waste facilities. CERCLA 
Section 103(a) requires the owner or operator of a vessel or onshore or 
offshore facility to notify the National Response Center (NRC) of any 
spill or other release of a hazardous substance that equals or exceeds 
a reportable quantity (RQ), as defined by CERCLA Section 101. 
Additionally, CERCLA Section 103(c) requires facilities that have 
``stored, treated, or disposed of'' hazardous wastes and where there is 
``known, suspected, or likely releases'' of hazardous substances to 
report their activities to EPA.
    CERCLA Section 120(d) requires EPA to take steps to assure that a 
Preliminary Assessment (PA) be completed for those sites identified in 
the Docket and that the evaluation and listing of sites with a PA be 
completed within a reasonable time frame. The PA is designed to provide 
information for EPA to consider when evaluating the site for potential 
response action or inclusion on the National Priorities List (NPL).
    The Docket serves three major purposes: (1) To identify all Federal 
facilities that must be evaluated to determine whether they pose a 
threat to human health and the environment sufficient to warrant 
inclusion on the National Priorities List (NPL); (2) to compile and 
maintain the information submitted to EPA on such facilities under the 
provisions listed in Section 120(c) of CERCLA; and (3) to provide a 
mechanism to make the information available to the public.
    The initial list of Federal facilities to be included on the Docket 
was published in the Federal Register on February 12, 1988 (53 FR 
4280). Since then, updates to the Docket have been published on 
November 16, 1988 (53 FR 46364); December 15, 1989 (54 FR 51472); 
August 22, 1990 (55 FR 34492); September 27, 1991 (56 FR 49328); 
December 12, 1991 (56 FR 64898); July 17, 1992 (57 FR 31758); February 
5, 1993 (58 FR 7298); November 10, 1993 (58 FR 59790); April 11, 1995 
(60 FR 18474); June 27, 1997 (62 FR 34779); November 23, 1998 (63 FR 
64806); June 12, 2000 (65 FR 36994); December 29, 2000 (65 FR 83222); 
October 2, 2001 (66 FR 50185); July 1, 2002 (67 FR 44200); January 2, 
2003 (68 FR 107); July 11, 2003 (68 FR 41353); December 15, 2003 (68 FR 
69685); July 19, 2004 (69 FR 42989); December 20, 2004 (69 FR 75951); 
October 25, 2005 (70 FR 61616); August 17, 2007 (72 FR 46218); November 
25, 2008 (73 FR 71644); October 13, 2010 (75 FR 62810); November 6, 
2012 (77 FR 66609); March 18, 2013 (78 FR 16668); January 6, 2014 (79 
FR 654), December 31, 2014 (79 FR 78850); and August 17, 2015 (80 FR 
49223). This notice constitutes the twenty-ninth update of the Docket.
    This notice provides some background information on the Docket. 
Additional information on the Docket requirements and implementation 
are found in the Docket Reference Manual, Federal Agency Hazardous 
Waste Compliance Docket found at http://www.epa.gov/fedfac/docket-reference-manual-federal-agency-hazardous-waste-compliance-docket-interim-final or obtained by calling the Regional Docket Coordinators 
listed below. This notice also provides changes to the list of sites 
included on the Docket in three areas: (1) Additions, (2) Deletions, 
and (3) Corrections. Specifically, additions are newly identified 
Federal facilities that have been reported to EPA since the last update 
and now are included on the Docket; the deletions section lists Federal 
facilities that EPA is deleting from the Docket.\1\ The information 
submitted to EPA on each Federal facility is maintained in the Docket 
repository located in the EPA Regional office of the Region in which 
the Federal facility is located; for a description of the information 
required under those provisions, see 53 FR 4280 (February 12, 1988). 
Each repository contains the documents submitted to EPA under the 
reporting provisions and correspondence relevant to the reporting 
provisions for each Federal facility.
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    \1\ See Section 3.2 for the criteria for being deleted from the 
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    In prior updates, information was also provided regarding No 
Further Remedial Action Planned (NFRAP) status changes. However, 
information on NFRAP and NPL status is no longer being provided 
separately in the Docket update as it is now available at: http://www.epa.gov/fedfac/fedfacts-information-about-federal-electronic-docket-facilities or by contacting the EPA HQ Docket Coordinator at the 
address provided in the FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT section of this 
notice.

2.0 Regional Docket Coordinators

    Contact the following Docket Coordinators for information on 
Regional Docket repositories:

    Martha Bosworth (HBS), US EPA Region 1, 5 Post Office Square, 
Suite 100, Mail Code: OSRR07-2, Boston MA 02109-3912, (617) 918-
1407.
    Helen Shannon (ERRD), US EPA Region 2, 290 Broadway, New York, 
NY 10007-1866, (212) 637- 4260.
    Joseph Vitello (3HS12), US EPA Region 3, 1650 Arch Street, 
Philadelphia, PA 19107, (215) 814-3354.

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    Dawn Taylor (4SF-SRSEB), US EPA Region 4, 61 Forsyth St. SW., 
Atlanta, GA 30303, (404) 562-8575.
    Michael Chrystof (SR-6J), US EPA Region 5, 77 W. Jackson Blvd., 
Chicago, IL 60604, (312) 353-3705.
    Philip Ofosu (6SF-RA), US EPA Region 6, 1445 Ross Avenue, 
Dallas, TX 75202-2733, (214) 665-3178.
    Paul Roemerman (SUPRERSP), US EPA Region 7, 11201 Renner Blvd., 
Lenexa, KS 66219, (913) 551-7694.
    Ryan Dunham (EPR-F), US EPA Region 8, 1595 Wynkoop Street, 
Denver, CO 80202, (303) 312-6627.
    Leslie Ramirez (SFD-6-1), US EPA Region 9, 75 Hawthorne Street, 
San Francisco, CA 94105, (415) 972-3978.
    Monica Lindeman (ECL, ABU), US EPA Region 10, 1200 Sixth Avenue, 
Suite 900, ECL-112, Seattle, WA 98101, (206) 553-5113.

3.0 Revisions of the Previous Docket

    This section includes a discussion of the additions and deletions 
to the list of Docket facilities since the previous Docket update.

3.1 Additions

    In this notice, 7 Federal facilities are being added to the Docket, 
primarily because of new information obtained by EPA (for example, 
recent reporting of a facility pursuant to RCRA Sections 3005, 3010, or 
3016 or CERCLA Section 103). CERCLA Section 120, as amended by the 
Defense Authorization Act of 1997, specifies that EPA take steps to 
assure that a Preliminary Assessment (PA) be completed within a 
reasonable time frame for those Federal facilities that are included on 
the Docket. Among other things, the PA is designed to provide 
information for EPA to consider when evaluating the site for potential 
response action or listing on the NPL.

3.2 Deletions

    In this notice, 42 Federal facilities are being deleted from the 
Docket. There are no statutory or regulatory provisions that address 
deletion of a facility from the Docket. However, if a facility is 
incorrectly included on the Docket, it may be deleted from the Docket. 
The criteria EPA uses in deleting sites from the Docket include: A 
facility for which there was an incorrect report submitted for 
hazardous waste activity under RCRA (e.g., 40 CFR 262.44); a facility 
that was not Federally-owned or operated at the time of the listing; a 
facility included more than once (i.e., redundant listings); or when 
multiple facilities are combined under one listing. (See Docket Codes 
(Categories for Deletion of Facilities) for a more refined list of the 
criteria EPA uses for deleting sites from the Docket. Facilities being 
deleted no longer will be subject to the requirements of CERCLA Section 
120(d).

3.3 Corrections

    Changes necessary to correct the previous Docket are identified by 
both EPA and Federal agencies. The corrections section may include 
changes in addresses or spelling, and corrections of the recorded name 
and ownership of a Federal facility. In addition, changes in the names 
of Federal facilities may be made to establish consistency in the 
Docket or between the Superfund Enterprise Management System (SEMS) and 
the Docket. For the Federal facility for which a correction is entered, 
the original entry is as it appeared in previous Docket updates. The 
corrected update is shown directly below, for easy comparison. This 
notice includes 22 corrections.

4.0 Process for Compiling the Updated Docket

    In compiling the newly reported Federal facilities for the update 
being published in this notice, EPA extracted the names, addresses, and 
identification numbers of facilities from four EPA databases--the 
WebEOC, the Biennial Inventory of Federal Agency Hazardous Waste 
Activities, the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act Information 
System (RCRAInfo), and SEMS--that contain information about Federal 
facilities submitted under the four provisions listed in CERCLA Section 
120(c).
    EPA assures the quality of the information on the Docket by 
conducting extensive evaluation of the current Docket list and contacts 
the other Federal Agency (OFA) with the information obtained from the 
databases identified above to determine which Federal facilities were, 
in fact, newly reported and qualified for inclusion on the update. EPA 
is also striving to correct errors for Federal facilities that were 
previously reported. For example, state-owned or privately-owned 
facilities that are not operated by the Federal government may have 
been included. Such problems are sometimes caused by procedures 
historically used to report and track Federal facilities data. 
Representatives of Federal agencies are asked to contact the EPA HQ 
Docket Coordinator at the address provided in the FOR FURTHER 
INFORMATION CONTACT section of this notice if revisions of this update 
information are necessary.

5.0 Facilities Not Included

    Certain categories of facilities may not be included on the Docket, 
such as: (1) Federal facilities formerly owned by a Federal agency that 
at the time of consideration was not Federally-owned or operated; (2) 
Federal facilities that are small quantity generators (SQGs) that have 
never generated more than 1,000 kg of hazardous waste in any month; (3) 
Federal facilities that are solely hazardous waste transportation 
facilities, as reported under RCRA Section 3010; and (4) Federal 
facilities that have mixed mine or mill site ownership.
    An EPA policy issued in June 2003 provided guidance for a site-by-
site evaluation as to whether ``mixed ownership'' mine or mill sites, 
typically created as a result of activities conducted pursuant to the 
General Mining Law of 1872 and never reported under Section 103(a), 
should be included on the Docket. For purposes of that policy, mixed 
ownership mine or mill sites are those located partially on private 
land and partially on public land. This policy is found at http://www.epa.gov/fedfac/policy-listing-mixed-ownership-mine-or-mill-sites-created-result-general-mining-law-1872. The policy of not including 
these facilities may change; facilities now omitted may be added at 
some point if EPA determines that they should be included.

6.0 Facility NPL Status Reporting, Including NFRAP Status

    EPA typically tracks the NPL status of Federal facilities listed on 
the Docket. An updated list of the NPL status of all Docket facilities, 
as well as their NFRAP status, is available at http://www.epa.gov/fedfac/fedfacts-information-about-federal-electronic-docket-facilities 
or by contacting the EPA HQ Docket Coordinator at the address provided 
in the FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT section of this notice. In prior 
updates, information regarding NFRAP status changes was provided 
separately.

7.0 Information Contained on Docket Listing

    The information is provided in four tables. The first table is a 
list of new Federal facilities that are being added to the Docket. The 
second table is a list of Federal facilities that are being deleted 
from the Docket. The third table is for corrections. The fourth table 
is the complete Docket list, this list is current and includes the 
changes from Update #29.
    The Federal facilities listed in each table are organized by the 
date reported. Under each heading is listed the name and address of the 
facility, the Federal agency responsible for the facility, the 
statutory provision(s) under which the

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a code that indicates a specific reason for the addition or 
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    The statutory provisions under which a Federal facility is reported 
are listed in a column titled ``Reporting Mechanism.'' Applicable 
mechanisms are listed for each Federal facility: For example, Sections 
3005, 3010, 3016, 103(c), or Other. ``Other'' has been added as a 
reporting mechanism to indicate those Federal facilities that otherwise 
have been identified to have releases or threat of releases of 
hazardous substances. The National Contingency Plan 40 CFR 300.405 
addresses discovery or notification, outlines what constitutes 
discovery of a hazardous substance release, and states that a release 
may be discovered in several ways, including: (1) A report submitted in 
accordance with Section 103(a) of CERCLA, i.e., reportable quantities 
codified at 40 CFR part 302; (2) a report submitted to EPA in 
accordance with Section 103(c) of CERCLA; (3) investigation by 
government authorities conducted in accordance with Section 104(e) of 
CERCLA or other statutory authority; (4) notification of a release by a 
Federal or state permit holder when required by its permit; (5) 
inventory or survey efforts or random or incidental observation 
reported by government agencies or the public; (6) submission of a 
citizen petition to EPA or the appropriate Federal facility requesting 
a preliminary assessment, in accordance with Section 105(d) of CERCLA; 
(7) a report submitted in accordance with Section 311(b)(5) of the 
Clean Water Act; and (8) other sources. As a policy matter, EPA 
generally believes it is appropriate for Federal facilities identified 
through the CERCLA discovery and notification process to be included on 
the Docket.
    The complete list of Federal facilities that now make up the Docket 
and the NPL and NFRAP status are available to interested parties and 
can be obtained at http://www.epa.gov/fedfac/fedfacts-information-about-federal-electronic-docket-facilities or by contacting the EPA HQ 
Docket Coordinator at the address provided in the FOR FURTHER 
INFORMATION CONTACT section of this notice. As of the date of this 
notice, the total number of Federal facilities that appear on the 
Docket is 2,326.

    Dated: February 24, 2016.
Charlotte Bertrand,
Acting Director, Federal Facilities Restoration and Reuse Office, 
Office of Land and Emergency Management.

Categories for Deletion of Facilities

    (1) Small-Quantity Generator. Show citation box.
    (2) Never Federally Owned and/or Operated.
    (3) Formerly Federally Owned and/or Operated but not at time of 
listing.
    (4) No Hazardous Waste Generated.
    (5) (This code is no longer used.)
    (6) Redundant Listing/Site on Facility.
    (7) Combining Sites Into One Facility/Entries Combined.
    (8) Does Not Fit Facility Definition.

Categories for Addition of Facilities

    (15) Small-Quantity Generator with either a RCRA 3016 or CERCLA 103 
Reporting Mechanism.
    (16) One Entry Being Split Into Two (or more)/Federal Agency 
Responsibility Being Split.
    (17) New Information Obtained Showing That Facility Should Be 
Included.
    (18) Facility Was a Site on a Facility That Was Disbanded; Now a 
Separate Facility.
    (19) Sites Were Combined Into One Facility.
    (19A) New Currently Federally Owned and/or Operated Facility Site.

Categories for Corrections of Information About Facilities

    (20) Reporting Provisions Change.
    (20A) Typo Correction/Name Change/Address Change.
    (21) Changing Responsible Federal Agency. (If applicable, new 
responsible Federal agency submits proof of previously performed PA, 
which is subject to approval by EPA.)
    (22) Changing Responsible Federal Agency and Facility Name. (If 
applicable, new responsible Federal Agency submits proof of previously 
performed PA, which is subject to approval by EPA.)
    (24) Reporting Mechanism Determined To Be Not Applicable After 
Review of Regional Files.

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