[Federal Register Volume 89, Number 33 (Friday, February 16, 2024)]
[Rules and Regulations]
[Pages 12246-12248]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2024-03003]


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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

40 CFR Part 300

[EPA-HQ-OLEM-2023-0299; EPA-HQ-OLEM-2023-00304; EPA-HQ-OLEM-2023-0382; 
FRL-11238-02-OLEM]


Deletion From the National Priorities List

AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

ACTION: Final rule.

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SUMMARY: The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announces the 
deletion of one site and partially deletion of two sites 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 
States, through their designated State agencies, 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 February 16, 2024.

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. The Final Close-Out 
Report (FCOR, for a full site deletion) or the Partial Deletion 
Justification (PDJ, for a partial site deletion) is the primary 
document which summarizes site information to support the deletion. It 
is typically written for a broad, non-technical audience and this 
document is included in the deletion docket for each of the sites in 
this rulemaking. 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. Docket materials 
are available through https://www.regulations.gov or at the 
corresponding Regional Records Centers. Locations, addresses, and

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phone numbers of the Regional Records Center follows.
     Region 1 (CT, ME, MA, NH, RI, VT), U.S. EPA New England, 
SEMS Records and Information Center, 5 Post Office Square, Suite 100, 
Boston, MA 02109-3912; 617/918-1440.
     Region 2 (NJ, NY, PR, VI), U.S. EPA, 290 Broadway, New 
York, NY 10007-1866; 212/637-4308.
     Region 4 (AL, FL, GA, KY, MS, NC, SC, TN), U.S. EPA, 61 
Forsyth Street SW, Mail code 9T25, Atlanta, GA 30303.
     EPA Headquarters Docket Center Reading Room (deletion 
dockets for all States), William Jefferson Clinton (WJC) West Building, 
Room 3334, 1301 Constitution Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20004, (202) 
566-1744.
    EPA staff listed below in the FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT 
section may assist the public in answering inquiries about deleted 
sites, accessing deletion support documentation, and determining 
whether there are additional physical deletion dockets available.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 
     Robert Lim, U.S. EPA Region 1 (CT, ME, MA, NH, RI, VT), 
[email protected], 617-918-1392.
     Mabel Garcia, U.S. EPA Region 2 (NJ, NY, PR, VI), 
[email protected], 212-637-4356.
     Leigh Lattimore, U.S. EPA Region 4 (AL, FL, GA, KY, MS, 
NC, SC, TN), [email protected], 404-562-8768.
     Charles Sands, U.S. EPA Headquarters, 
[email protected], 202-566-1142.

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 sites to be deleted are 
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 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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Portsmouth Naval Shipyard......  Kittery, ME.......  Full...................  EPA-HQ-OLEM-2023-0  1, 2, 3.
                                                                               382.
Universal Oil Products           East Rutherford,    Partial................  EPA-HQ-OLEM-2023-0
 (Chemical Division).             NJ.                                          304.
Tyndall Air Force Base.........  Panama City, FL...  Partial................  EPA-HQ-OLEM-2023-0  1, 3.
                                                                               299.
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    Information concerning the sites to be deleted and partially 
deleted from the NPL, and the proposed rule for the deletion and 
partial deletion of the sites, are included in Table 2.

                                                     Table 2
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                                                                                           Full site deletion
                                         Date, proposed                                 (full) or media/parcels/
               Site name                      rule                FR citation            description for partial
                                                                                                deletion
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Portsmouth Naval Shipyard.............        8/16/2023  88 FR 55611..................  Full.
Universal Oil Products (Chemical              8/16/2023  88 FR 55611..................  Partial, 17 acres of
 Division).                                                                              soil from OU1.
Tyndall Air Force Base................        8/16/2023  88 FR 55611..................  Partial, OUs 10, 11 and
                                                                                         parts of 15 and 25.
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    For the sites proposed for deletion, the closing date for comments 
in the proposed rule was September 15, 2023. The EPA received no public 
comments for any of the three sites in this final rule. The deletion 
criteria for the Site have been met, and detailed information is 
available on https://www.regulations.gov, and in the appropriate 
Regional Records Centers listed in the ADDRESSES.
    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.

Larry Douchand,
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,

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3 CFR, 1991 Comp., p. 351; E.O. 12580, 52 FR 2923, 3 CFR, 1987 
Comp., p. 193.


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2. In Appendix B to part 300, amend Table 1 by:
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a. Revising the entry for ``NJ'', ``Universal Oil Products (Chemical 
Division'', ``East Rutherford''.
    The revisions read as follows:

Appendix B to Part 300--National Priorities List

                                       Table 1--General Superfund Section
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            State                       Site name                 City/county                 Notes (a)
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                                                  * * * * * * *
NJ..........................  Universal Oil Products        East Rutherford........  P.
                               (Chemical Division).
 
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* P = Sites with partial deletion(s).

Table 2--[Amended]

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3. In Appendix B to part 300, amend Table 2 by:
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a. Removing the entry for ``ME'', ``Portsmouth Naval Shipyard'', 
``Kittery''.

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