Rule2022-05556
National Priorities List Deletion
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Published
March 22, 2022
Effective
March 22, 2022
Issuing agencies
Environmental Protection Agency
Abstract
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.
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[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 [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[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 <a href="https://www.regulations.gov">https://www.regulations.gov</a> 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 <a href="https://www.regulations.gov">https://www.regulations.gov</a> or
in hard copy at the corresponding Regional Records Centers. Locations,
addresses, and phone numbers-of the Regional Records Center follows.
Regional Records Center:
<bullet> Region 9 (AZ, CA, HI, NV, AS, GU, MP), email:
<a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#fdafc48f989e928f998ebd988d9cd39a928b"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="de8ce7acbbbdb1acbaad9ebbaebff0b9b1a8">[email protected]</span></a>, 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 <a href="https://www.epa.gov/dockets">https://www.epa.gov/dockets</a>.
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:
<bullet> Holly Hadlock, U.S. EPA Region 9, <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#b4dcd5d0d8dbd7df9adcdbd8d8cdf4d1c4d59ad3dbc2"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="9bf3fafff7f4f8f0b5f3f4f7f7e2dbfeebfab5fcf4ed">[email protected]</span></a>, 415/
972-3171.
<bullet> Chuck Sands, U.S. EPA Headquarters, <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#f380929d9780dd909b92819f9680b3968392dd949c85"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="7407151a10075a171c1506181107341104155a131b02">[email protected]</span></a>.
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 <a href="https://www.regulations.gov">https://www.regulations.gov</a>, 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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