[Federal Register Volume 87, Number 55 (Tuesday, March 22, 2022)]
[Rules and Regulations]
[Pages 16103-16104]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2022-05556]


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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

40 CFR Part 300

[EPA-HQ-SFUND-2021-0485; FRL-9634-01-OLEM]


National Priorities List Deletion

AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

ACTION: Final rule.

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SUMMARY: The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announces the 
deletion of one site, Beckman Instruments, from the Superfund National 
Priorities List (NPL). The NPL, created under 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, 
through their designated state agency, have determined that all 
appropriate response actions under CERCLA have been completed. However, 
this deletion does not preclude future actions under Superfund.

DATES: The document is effective on March 22, 2022.

ADDRESSES: Docket: EPA has established a docket for this action under 
the Docket Identification included in Table 1 in the SUPPLEMENTARY 
INFORMATION section of this document. All documents in the docket are 
listed on the https://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 https://www.regulations.gov or 
in hard copy at the corresponding Regional Records Centers. Locations, 
addresses, and phone numbers-of the Regional Records Center follows.
    Regional Records Center:

 Region 9 (AZ, CA, HI, NV, AS, GU, MP), email: 
[email protected], 415/947-8717.
    The EPA is temporarily suspending Regional Records Centers for 
public visitors to reduce the risk of transmitting COVID-19. 
Information in these repositories, including the deletion docket, may 
not be updated with hardcopy or electronic media. For further 
information and updates on EPA Docket Center services, please visit us 
online at https://www.epa.gov/dockets.
    The EPA continues to carefully and continuously monitor information 
from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), local area 
health departments, and our Federal partners so that we can respond 
rapidly as conditions change regarding COVID.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

 Holly Hadlock, U.S. EPA Region 9, [email protected], 415/
972-3171.
 Chuck Sands, U.S. EPA Headquarters, [email protected].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The NPL, created under section 105 of 
CERCLA, as amended, is an appendix of the NCP. The NCP establishes the 
criteria that EPA uses to delete sites from the NPL. In accordance with 
40 CFR 300.425(e), sites may be deleted from the NPL where no further 
response is appropriate. Partial deletion of sites is in accordance 
with 40 CFR 300.425(e) and are consistent with the ``Notice of Policy 
Change: Partial Deletion of Sites Listed on the National Priorities 
List,'' 60 FR 55466, (November 1, 1995). The site to be deleted is 
listed in Table 1, including docket information containing reference 
documents with the rationale and data principally relied upon by the 
EPA to determine that the Superfund response is complete. The NCP 
permits activities to occur at a deleted site, or

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that media or parcel of a partially deleted site, including operation 
and maintenance of the remedy, monitoring, and five-year reviews. These 
activities for the site are entered in Table 1 in this SUPPLEMENTARY 
INFORMATION section, if applicable, under Footnote such that; 1 = site 
has continued operation and maintenance of the remedy, 2 = site 
receives continued monitoring, and 3 = site five-year reviews are 
conducted. As described in 40 CFR 300.425(e)(3) of the NCP, a site or 
portion of a site deleted from the NPL remains eligible for Fund-
financed remedial action if future conditions warrant such actions.

                                                                         Table 1
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             Site name                 City/county, state             Type                            Docket No.                         Footnote
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Beckman Instruments................  Porterville, CA.......  Full..................  EPA-HQ-SFUND-2021-0485                       ......................
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    Information concerning the sites to be deleted and partially 
deleted from the NPL, the proposed rule for the deletion and partial 
deletion of the sites, and information on receipt of public comment(s) 
and preparation of a Responsiveness Summary (if applicable) are 
included in Table 2 as follows:

                                                                         Table 2
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                                                                                                                           Full site deletion (full) or
             Site name                   Date,            FR citation          Public  comment        Responsiveness      media/parcels/ description for
                                    proposed  rule                                                        summary               partial  deletion
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Beckman Instruments...............       9/14/2021  86 FR 51045...........  Yes..................  No..................  Full.
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    For the site proposed for deletion, the closing date for comments 
in the proposed rule was October 14, 2021. The EPA received three 
public comments on the Beckman Instruments site included for deletion 
in this final rule. The public comments were supportive of the proposed 
deletion and of EPA actions. Because no adverse comment was received 
for this site, no Responsiveness Summary was prepared. EPA placed the 
comments in the docket, EPA-HQ-SFUND-2021-0485, on https://www.regulations.gov, and in the Regional repository listed in the 
ADDRESSES section.
    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, 
Natural resources, Oil pollution, Penalties, Reporting and 
recordkeeping requirements, Superfund, Water pollution control, Water 
supply.

    Dated: March 9, 2022.
Dana Stalcup,
Acting Office Director, Office of Superfund Remediation and Technology 
Innovation.

    For reasons set out in the preamble, the EPA amends 40 CFR part 300 
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. 1251 et seq.; 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 [Amended]

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2. Amend appendix B to part 300, Table 1, by removing the entry for 
``CA'', ``Beckman Instruments'', ``Porterville''.

[FR Doc. 2022-05556 Filed 3-21-22; 8:45 am]
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