[Federal Register Volume 84, Number 177 (Thursday, September 12, 2019)]
[Rules and Regulations]
[Page 48077]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2019-19654]


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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

40 CFR Part 300

[EPA-HQ-SFUND-1989-0011; FRL-9999-01-Region 7]


National Oil and Hazardous Substances Pollution Contingency Plan; 
National Priorities List: Deletion of the Electro-Coatings, Inc. 
Superfund Site

AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

ACTION: Final rule.

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SUMMARY: The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Region 7 announces 
the deletion of the Electro-Coatings, Inc. Superfund Site (Site) 
located at 911 Shaver, Cedar Rapids, Iowa, 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). The EPA and the 
State of Iowa, through the Iowa Department of Natural Resources, have 
determined that all appropriate response actions under CERCLA have been 
completed. However, this deletion does not preclude future actions 
under Superfund.

DATES: This action is effective September 12, 2019.

ADDRESSES: 
    Docket: The EPA has established a docket for this action under 
Docket Identification No. EPA-HQ-SFUND-1989-0011. 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 
in hard copy at the site information repositories. Locations, contacts, 
phone numbers and viewing hours are:
    EPA Region 7 Records Center, 11201 Renner Boulevard, Lenexa, Kansas 
66219, between 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday through Friday, excluding 
Federal holidays; and the Cedar Rapids Downtown Public Library, located 
at 450 Fifth Avenue SE, Cedar Rapids, Iowa 52401, between 9 a.m. to 8 
p.m. Monday through Thursday, between 9 a.m. to 5 a.m. Friday and 
Saturday, and between 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. on Sunday.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Amer Safadi, Remedial Project Manager, 
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Region 7, 11201 Renner Boulevard, 
Lenexa, Kansas 66219. Phone: (913) 551-7825. Email: 
[email protected].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The site to be deleted from the NPL is: 
Electro-Coatings, Inc., Cedar Rapids, Iowa. A Notice of Intent to 
Delete for this Site was published in the Federal Register (84 FR 
33046) on July 11, 2019.
    The closing date for comments on the Notice of Intent to Delete was 
August 12, 2019. One public comment was received. The comment indicated 
that the EPA should report to the public the activities conducted to 
cleanup the Site and what will continue to be conducted to protect the 
public health and the environment, including reporting costs incurred 
and estimates of future costs. The EPA's response is that included in 
the docket were reports of the activities conducted at the Site 
including, the NOID, the FCOR, the latest Five-year review, and others. 
The docket also included the Remedial Action report, which included the 
requested available costs. The EPA believes the deletion action has 
been conducted in accordance with CERCLA and the NCP, therefore the 
deletion of the Site from the NPL is appropriate. A responsiveness 
summary was prepared and placed in both the docket, EPA-HQ-SFUND-1989-
0011, on www.regulations.gov, and in the local repositories listed 
above.
    The EPA maintains the NPL as the list of sites that appear to 
present a significant risk to public health, welfare, or the 
environment. Deletion 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 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 substances, Hazardous waste, Intergovernmental relations, 
Penalties, Reporting and recordkeeping requirements, Superfund, Water 
pollution control, Water supply.

    Dated: September 3, 2019.
James Gulliford,
Regional Administrator, Region 7.
    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.

Appendix B to Part 300--National Priorities List

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2. Table 1 of Appendix B to part 300 is amended by removing the entry 
``IA, Electro-Coatings, Inc., Cedar Rapids''.

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