[Federal Register Volume 84, Number 91 (Friday, May 10, 2019)]
[Rules and Regulations]
[Pages 20550-20551]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2019-09480]


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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

40 CFR Part 300

[EPA-HQ-SFUND-1986-0005; FRL-9993-34-Region 9]


National Oil and Hazardous Substances Pollution Contingency Plan; 
National Priorities List: Partial Deletion of the Beckman Instruments 
Superfund Site

AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

ACTION: Final rule.

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SUMMARY: The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Region 9 announces 
the deletion of the soil portion of the Beckman Instruments Superfund 
Site (Site) located in Porterville, California, from the National 
Priorities List (NPL). 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). This partial 
deletion pertains to the soil portion of the Site. The groundwater will 
remain on the NPL and is not being considered for deletion as part of 
this action. EPA and the State of California, through the Department of 
Toxic Substances Control, have determined that all appropriate response 
actions under CERCLA have been completed. However, the deletion of the 
soil portion of the Site does not preclude future actions under 
Superfund.

DATES: This action is effective May 10, 2019.

ADDRESSES: EPA has established a docket for this action under Docket 
Identification No. EPA-HQ-SFUND-1986-0005. All documents in the docket 
are listed on the http://www.regulations.gov website. Although listed 
in the index, some information is not publicly available, i.e., 
Confidential Business Information or other information whose disclosure 
is restricted by statute. Certain other material, such as copyrighted 
material, is not placed on the internet and will be publicly available 
only in hard copy form. Publicly available docket materials are 
available either electronically through http://www.regulations.gov or 
at the site information repositories. Locations, contacts, phone 
numbers and viewing hours are:
    Superfund Records Center, 75 Hawthorne Street, Room 3110, San 
Francisco, California, Hours: 8 a.m.-4 p.m.; (415) 947-8717.
    Site Repository: 41 W. Thurman Avenue, Porterville, California. 
Call (559) 784-0177 for hours of operation.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Holly Hadlock, Superfund Project 
Manager, U.S. EPA, Region 9, (SFD-7-3), 75 Hawthorne Street, San 
Francisco, CA 94105, (415) 972-3171, email: [email protected].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The portion of the Site to be deleted from 
the NPL is the soil at the Beckman Instruments Superfund Site, 
Porterville, California. A Notice of Intent for Partial Deletion for 
this Site was published in the Federal Register (84 FR 4033-4035) on 
February 14, 2019. The closing date for comments on the Notice of 
Intent for Partial Deletion was March 18, 2019. EPA received two 
comments that support the decision to deletion the soil from the NPL. 
These comments have been placed in both the docket at 
www.regulations.gov (EPA-HQ-SFUND-1986-0005) and in the repositories 
listed above.
    EPA maintains the NPL as the list of sites that appear to present a 
significant risk to public health, welfare, or the environment. 
Deletion of a site from the NPL does not preclude further remedial 
action. Whenever there is a significant release from a site deleted 
from the NPL, the deleted site may be restored to the NPL without 
application of the hazard ranking system. Deletion of portions of a 
site from the NPL does not affect responsible party liability, in the 
unlikely event that future conditions warrant further actions.

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.

     Dated: April 3, 2019.
Michael B. Stoker,
Regional Administrator, Region 9.

    For reasons set out in the preamble, 40 CFR part 300 is amended as 
follows:

PART 300--NATIONAL OIL AND HAZARDOUS SUBSTANCES POLLUTION 
CONTINGENCY PLAN

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1. The authority citation for part 300 continues to read as follows:

    Authority:  33 U.S.C. 1321(d); 42 U.S.C. 9601-9657; E.O. 13626, 
77 FR 56749, 3 CFR, 2013 Comp., p. 306; 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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2. Table 1 of Appendix B to part 300 is amended by removing the 
California entry for ``Beckman Instruments (Porterville Plant)'' and 
adding an entry for ``Beckman Instruments'' in its place to read as 
follows:

Appendix B to Part 300--National Priorities List

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                                       Table 1--General Superfund Section
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             State                      Site name               City/County                  Notes (a)
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CA.............................  Beckman Instruments....  Porterville............                            P.
 
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\(a)\ = Based on issuance of health advisory by Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (if scored, HRS
  score need not be greater than or equal to 28.50).
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*P = Sites with partial deletion(s).


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