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Deletion of a portion of a site from the
NPL does not itself create, alter, or
revoke any individual’s rights or
obligations. Deletion of a portion of a
site from the NPL does not in any way
alter EPA’s right to take enforcement
actions, as appropriate. The NPL is
designed primarily for informational
purposes and to assist EPA
management. Section 300.425(e)(3) of
the NCP states that the deletion of a site
or a portion of a site from the NPL does
not preclude eligibility for future
response actions, should future
conditions warrant such actions.
IV. Basis for Partial Site Deletion
The EPA placed copies of a SiteSpecific Justification for the Partial
Deletion from the NPL of Operable Unit
1—Landfill Cap Area of the Douglas
Road/Uniroyal, Inc. Landfill Superfund
Site and other documents supporting
the proposed partial deletion in the
deletion docket. The material provides
explanation of EPA’s rationale for the
partial deletion and demonstrates how
OU1—Landfill Cap Area of the Douglas
Road Site meets the NPL deletion
criteria. This information is made
available for public inspection in the
docket identified above.
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.
Authority: 33 U.S.C. 1251 et seq.; 42 U.S.C.
9601–9675; 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.
Dated: June 9, 2020.
Kurt Thiede,
Regional Administrator, Region 5.
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National Oil and Hazardous
Substances Pollution Contingency
Plan; National Priorities List: Deletion
of the First Piedmont Rock Quarry
(Route 719) Superfund Site
Environmental Protection
Agency (EPA).
AGENCY:
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Proposed rule; notice of intent.
The Environmental Protection
Agency (EPA) Region III is issuing a
Notice of Intent to Delete the First
Piedmont Rock Quarry (Route 719)
Superfund Site (Site) located in
Pittsylvania County, Virginia, from the
National Priorities List (NPL) and
requests public comments on this
proposed action. 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 Commonwealth of Virginia, through
the Virginia Department of
Environmental Quality (VDEQ), have
determined that all appropriate
response actions under CERCLA, other
than operation and maintenance (O&M),
monitoring, and five-year reviews, have
been completed. However, this deletion
does not preclude future actions under
Superfund.
DATES: Comments must be received by
July 23, 2020.
ADDRESSES: You may submit comments,
identified by Docket ID No. EPA–HQ–
SFUND–1987–0002, by any of the
following methods:
• Federal eRulemaking Portal:
https://www.regulations.gov (our
preferred method). Follow the
instructions for submitting comments.
• Email: sorto.evelyn@epa.gov.
Include Docket ID No. EPA–HQ–
SFUND–1987–0002 in the subject line
of the message.
• Written comments submitted by
mail are temporarily suspended and no
hand deliveries will be accepted. We
encourage the public to submit
comments via https://
www.regulations.gov.
Instructions: Direct your comments to
Docket ID No. EPA–HQ–SFUND–1987–
0002. Comments may also be submitted
electronically or by following the
detailed instructions in the ADDRESSES
section of the direct final rule located in
the rules section of this Federal
Register.
SUMMARY:
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
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Technical information: Evelyn Sorto,
215–814–2123, sorto.evelyn@epa.gov.
Legal information: Ami Antoine, 215–
814–2497, antoine.ami@epa.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: In the
‘‘Rules and Regulations’’ section of this
issue of the Federal Register, we are
publishing a direct final Notice of
Deletion of the First Piedmont Rock
Quarry (Route 719) Superfund Site
without prior Notice of Intent to Delete
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because we view this as a
noncontroversial revision and anticipate
no adverse comment. We have
explained our reasons for this deletion
in the preamble to the direct final
Notice of Deletion, and those reasons
are incorporated herein. If we receive no
adverse comment(s) on this deletion
action, we will not take further action
on this Notice of Intent to Delete. If we
receive adverse comment(s), we will
withdraw the direct final Notice of
Deletion, and it will not take effect. We
will, as appropriate, address all public
comments in a subsequent final Notice
of Deletion based on this Notice of
Intent to Delete. We will not institute a
second comment period on this Notice
of Intent to Delete. Any parties
interested in commenting must do so at
this time.
For additional information, see the
direct final Notice of Deletion which is
located in the ‘‘Rules and Regulations’’
section of this issue of the Federal
Register.
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.
Authority: 33 U.S.C. 1251 et seq.
Dated: June 16, 2020.
Cosmo Servidio,
Regional Administrator, EPA Region III.
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National Oil and Hazardous
Substances Pollution Contingency
Plan; National Priorities List: Deletion
of the Fridley Commons Park Well
Field Superfund Site
Environmental Protection
Agency (EPA).
ACTION: Proposed rule; notification of
intent.
AGENCY:
The Environmental Protection
Agency (EPA) Region 5 is issuing a
Notice of Intent to Delete the Fridley
Commons Park Well Field Superfund
Site (Fridley Well Field Site or Site)
located in Fridley, Minnesota, from the
National Priorities List (NPL) and
SUMMARY:
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requests public comments on this
proposed action. 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 Minnesota, through the
Minnesota Pollution Control Agency
(MPCA), have determined that all
appropriate response actions under
CERCLA have been completed.
However, this deletion does not
preclude future actions under
Superfund.
DATES: Comments must be received by
July 23, 2020.
ADDRESSES: Submit your comments,
identified by Docket ID No. EPA–HQ–
SFUND–1999–0013, by one of the
following methods:
https://www.regulations.gov. Follow
the online instructions for submitting
comments. Once submitted, comments
cannot be edited or removed from
Regulations.gov. EPA may publish any
comment received to its public docket.
Do not submit electronically any
information you consider to be
Confidential Business Information (CBI)
or other information whose disclosure is
restricted by statute. Multimedia
submissions (audio, video, etc.) must be
accompanied by a written comment.
The written comment is considered the
official comment and should include
discussion of all points you wish to
make. EPA will generally not consider
comments or comment contents located
outside of the primary submission (i.e.,
on the web, cloud, or other file sharing
system). For additional submission
methods, the full EPA public comment
policy, information about CBI or
multimedia submissions, and general
guidance on making effective
comments, please visit https://
www.epa.gov/dockets/commenting-epadockets.
Email: Deletions@
usepa.onmicrosoft.com.
Written comments submitted by mail
are temporarily suspended and no hand
deliveries will be accepted. We
encourage the public to submit
comments via email or at https://
www.regulations.gov.
Instructions: Direct your comments to
Docket ID No. EPA–HQ–SFUND–1999–
0013. EPA’s policy is that all comments
received will be included in the public
docket without change and may be
made available online at https://
www.regulations.gov, including any
personal information provided, unless
the comment includes information
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claimed to be Confidential Business
Information (CBI) or other information
whose disclosure is restricted by statute.
Do not submit information that you
consider to be CBI or otherwise
protected through https://
www.regulations.gov or email. The
https://www.regulations.gov website is
an ‘‘anonymous access’’ system, which
means EPA will not know your identity
or contact information unless you
provide it in the body of your comment.
If you send an email comment directly
to EPA without going through https://
www.regulations.gov, your email
address will be automatically captured
and included as part of the comment
that is placed in the public docket and
made available on the internet. If you
submit an electronic comment, EPA
recommends that you include your
name and other contact information in
the body of your comment and with any
disk or CD–ROM you submit. If EPA
cannot read your comment due to
technical difficulties and cannot contact
you for clarification, EPA may not be
able to consider your comment.
Electronic files should avoid the use of
special characters, any form of
encryption, and be free of any defects or
viruses.
Docket: All documents in the docket
are listed in the https://
www.regulations.gov index, Docket ID
No. EPA–HQ–SFUND–1999–0013.
Although listed in the index, some
information is not publicly available,
e.g., CBI or other information whose
disclosure is restricted by statute.
Certain other material, such as
copyrighted material, will be publicly
available only in hard copy. Publicly
available docket materials are available
electronically at https://
www.regulations.gov, Docket ID No.
EPA–HQ–1999–0013 and at https://
cumulis.epa.gov/supercpad/
SiteProfiles/
index.cfm?fuseaction=second.docdata&
id=0506449 or you may contact the
person identified in the FOR FURTHER
INFORMATION CONTACT section for
additional availability information.
The EPA is temporarily suspending
its Docket Center and Regional Records
Centers for public visitors to reduce the
risk of transmitting COVID–19. In
addition, many site information
repositories are closed and information
in these repositories, including the
deletion docket, has not been 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
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departments, and our Federal partners
so that we can respond rapidly as
conditions change regarding COVID–19.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Karen Cibulskis, NPL Deletion
Coordinator, U.S. Environmental
Protection Agency Region 5 at (312)
886–1843 or via email at
cibulskis.karen@epa.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Table of Contents
I. Introduction
II. NPL Deletion Criteria
III. Deletion Procedures
IV. Basis for Site Deletion
I. Introduction
EPA Region 5 announces its intent to
delete the Fridley Well Field Site from
the NPL and requests public comment
on this proposed action. The NPL
constitutes Appendix B of 40 CFR part
300, which is the NCP, which EPA
promulgated pursuant to Section 105 of
CERCLA of 1980, as amended. EPA
maintains the NPL as the list of sites
that appear to present a significant risk
to public health, welfare, or the
environment. Sites on the NPL may be
the subject of remedial actions financed
by the Hazardous Substance Superfund
(Fund). As described in 40 CFR
300.425(e)(3) of the NCP, sites deleted
from the NPL remain eligible for Fundfinanced remedial actions if future
conditions warrant such actions.
EPA will accept comments on the
proposal to delete this site for thirty (30)
days after publication of this document
in the Federal Register.
Section II of this document explains
the criteria for deleting sites from the
NPL. Section III of this document
discusses the procedures that EPA is
using for this action. Section IV of this
document discusses where to access and
review information that demonstrates
how the deletion criteria have been met
at the Fridley Well Field Site.
II. NPL Deletion Criteria
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. In making such a
determination pursuant to 40 CFR
300.425(e), EPA will consider, in
consultation with the State, whether any
of the following criteria have been met:
i. Responsible parties or other persons
have implemented all appropriate
response actions required;
ii. All appropriate Fund-financed
response under CERCLA has been
implemented, and no further response
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action by responsible parties is
appropriate; or
iii. The remedial investigation has
shown that the release poses no
significant threat to public health or the
environment and, therefore, the taking
of remedial measures is not appropriate.
Pursuant to CERCLA Section 121(c)
and the NCP, EPA may initiate further
action to ensure continued
protectiveness at a deleted site if new
information becomes available that
indicates it is appropriate. 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.
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III. Deletion Procedures
The following procedures apply to
deletion of the Fridley Well Field Site:
(1) EPA consulted with the State of
Minnesota prior to developing this
Notice of Intent to Delete.
(2) EPA has provided the State thirty
(30) working days for review of this
notice prior to publication of it today.
(3) In accordance with the criteria
discussed above, EPA has determined
that no further response is appropriate.
(4) The State of Minnesota, through
the MPCA, has concurred with deletion
of the Fridley Well Field Site from the
NPL.
(5) Concurrently with the publication
of this Notice of Intent to Delete in the
Federal Register, an announcement of
the availability of the Notice of Intent to
Delete is being published in a major
local newspaper, the Blaine/Spring Lake
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Park/Columbia Heights/Fridley Life.
The newspaper notice announces the
30-day public comment period
concerning the Notice of Intent to Delete
the Fridley Well Field Site from the
NPL.
(6) EPA placed copies of documents
supporting the proposed deletion in the
deletion docket and made these items
available for public inspection and
copying at https://www.regulations.gov,
Docket ID No. EPA–HQ–SFUND–1999–
0013 and at https://cumulis.epa.gov/
supercpad/SiteProfiles/
index.cfm?fuseaction=second.
docdata&id=0506449.
If comments are received within the
30-day public comment period on this
document, EPA will evaluate and
respond appropriately to the comments
before making a final decision to delete.
If necessary, EPA will prepare a
Responsiveness Summary to address
any significant public comments
received. After the public comment
period, if EPA determines it is still
appropriate to delete the Site from the
NPL, the EPA will publish a final Notice
of Deletion in the Federal Register.
Public notices, public submissions, and
copies of the Responsiveness Summary,
if prepared, will be made available to
interested parties and in the docket
listed above.
Deletion of a site from the NPL does
not itself create, alter, or revoke any
individual’s rights or obligations.
Deletion of a site from the NPL does not
in any way alter EPA’s right to take
enforcement actions, as appropriate.
The NPL is designed primarily for
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informational purposes and to assist
EPA management. Section 300.425(e)(3)
of the NCP states that the deletion of a
site from the NPL does not preclude
eligibility for future response actions,
should future conditions warrant such
actions.
IV. Basis for Site Deletion
The EPA placed copies of EPA’s Final
Close Out Report for the Site and other
documents supporting the proposed
deletion in the deletion docket. The
material provides explanation of EPA’s
rationale for the deletion and
demonstrates how the Fridley Well
Field Site meets the deletion criteria.
This information is made available for
public inspection in the docket
identified above.
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.
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.
Dated: June 4, 2020.
Kurt Thiede,
Regional Administrator, Region 5.
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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
40 CFR Part 300
[EPA-HQ-SFUND-1999-0013; FRL-10010-38-Region 5]
National Oil and Hazardous Substances Pollution Contingency Plan;
National Priorities List: Deletion of the Fridley Commons Park Well
Field Superfund Site
AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
ACTION: Proposed rule; notification of intent.
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SUMMARY: The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Region 5 is issuing
a Notice of Intent to Delete the Fridley Commons Park Well Field
Superfund Site (Fridley Well Field Site or Site) located in Fridley,
Minnesota, from the National Priorities List (NPL) and
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requests public comments on this proposed action. 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 Minnesota, through the
Minnesota Pollution Control Agency (MPCA), have determined that all
appropriate response actions under CERCLA have been completed. However,
this deletion does not preclude future actions under Superfund.
DATES: Comments must be received by July 23, 2020.
ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, identified by Docket ID No. EPA-HQ-
SFUND-1999-0013, by one of the following methods:
https://www.regulations.gov. Follow the online instructions for
submitting comments. Once submitted, comments cannot be edited or
removed from Regulations.gov. EPA may publish any comment received to
its public docket. Do not submit electronically any information you
consider to be Confidential Business Information (CBI) or other
information whose disclosure is restricted by statute. Multimedia
submissions (audio, video, etc.) must be accompanied by a written
comment. The written comment is considered the official comment and
should include discussion of all points you wish to make. EPA will
generally not consider comments or comment contents located outside of
the primary submission (i.e., on the web, cloud, or other file sharing
system). For additional submission methods, the full EPA public comment
policy, information about CBI or multimedia submissions, and general
guidance on making effective comments, please visit https://www.epa.gov/dockets/commenting-epa-dockets.
Email: [email protected].
Written comments submitted by mail are temporarily suspended and no
hand deliveries will be accepted. We encourage the public to submit
comments via email or at https://www.regulations.gov.
Instructions: Direct your comments to Docket ID No. EPA-HQ-SFUND-
1999-0013. EPA's policy is that all comments received will be included
in the public docket without change and may be made available online at
https://www.regulations.gov, including any personal information
provided, unless the comment includes information claimed to be
Confidential Business Information (CBI) or other information whose
disclosure is restricted by statute. Do not submit information that you
consider to be CBI or otherwise protected through https://www.regulations.gov or email. The https://www.regulations.gov website
is an ``anonymous access'' system, which means EPA will not know your
identity or contact information unless you provide it in the body of
your comment. If you send an email comment directly to EPA without
going through https://www.regulations.gov, your email address will be
automatically captured and included as part of the comment that is
placed in the public docket and made available on the internet. If you
submit an electronic comment, EPA recommends that you include your name
and other contact information in the body of your comment and with any
disk or CD-ROM you submit. If EPA cannot read your comment due to
technical difficulties and cannot contact you for clarification, EPA
may not be able to consider your comment. Electronic files should avoid
the use of special characters, any form of encryption, and be free of
any defects or viruses.
Docket: All documents in the docket are listed in the https://www.regulations.gov index, Docket ID No. EPA-HQ-SFUND-1999-0013.
Although listed in the index, some information is not publicly
available, e.g., CBI or other information whose disclosure is
restricted by statute. Certain other material, such as copyrighted
material, will be publicly available only in hard copy. Publicly
available docket materials are available electronically at https://www.regulations.gov, Docket ID No. EPA-HQ-1999-0013 and at https://cumulis.epa.gov/supercpad/SiteProfiles/index.cfm?fuseaction=second.docdata&id=0506449 or you may contact the
person identified in the FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT section for
additional availability information.
The EPA is temporarily suspending its Docket Center and Regional
Records Centers for public visitors to reduce the risk of transmitting
COVID-19. In addition, many site information repositories are closed
and information in these repositories, including the deletion docket,
has not been 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-19.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Karen Cibulskis, NPL Deletion
Coordinator, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Region 5 at (312)
886-1843 or via email at [email protected].
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Table of Contents
I. Introduction
II. NPL Deletion Criteria
III. Deletion Procedures
IV. Basis for Site Deletion
I. Introduction
EPA Region 5 announces its intent to delete the Fridley Well Field
Site from the NPL and requests public comment on this proposed action.
The NPL constitutes Appendix B of 40 CFR part 300, which is the NCP,
which EPA promulgated pursuant to Section 105 of CERCLA of 1980, as
amended. EPA maintains the NPL as the list of sites that appear to
present a significant risk to public health, welfare, or the
environment. Sites on the NPL may be the subject of remedial actions
financed by the Hazardous Substance Superfund (Fund). As described in
40 CFR 300.425(e)(3) of the NCP, sites deleted from the NPL remain
eligible for Fund-financed remedial actions if future conditions
warrant such actions.
EPA will accept comments on the proposal to delete this site for
thirty (30) days after publication of this document in the Federal
Register.
Section II of this document explains the criteria for deleting
sites from the NPL. Section III of this document discusses the
procedures that EPA is using for this action. Section IV of this
document discusses where to access and review information that
demonstrates how the deletion criteria have been met at the Fridley
Well Field Site.
II. NPL Deletion Criteria
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. In making such a
determination pursuant to 40 CFR 300.425(e), EPA will consider, in
consultation with the State, whether any of the following criteria have
been met:
i. Responsible parties or other persons have implemented all
appropriate response actions required;
ii. All appropriate Fund-financed response under CERCLA has been
implemented, and no further response
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action by responsible parties is appropriate; or
iii. The remedial investigation has shown that the release poses no
significant threat to public health or the environment and, therefore,
the taking of remedial measures is not appropriate.
Pursuant to CERCLA Section 121(c) and the NCP, EPA may initiate
further action to ensure continued protectiveness at a deleted site if
new information becomes available that indicates it is appropriate.
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.
III. Deletion Procedures
The following procedures apply to deletion of the Fridley Well
Field Site:
(1) EPA consulted with the State of Minnesota prior to developing
this Notice of Intent to Delete.
(2) EPA has provided the State thirty (30) working days for review
of this notice prior to publication of it today.
(3) In accordance with the criteria discussed above, EPA has
determined that no further response is appropriate.
(4) The State of Minnesota, through the MPCA, has concurred with
deletion of the Fridley Well Field Site from the NPL.
(5) Concurrently with the publication of this Notice of Intent to
Delete in the Federal Register, an announcement of the availability of
the Notice of Intent to Delete is being published in a major local
newspaper, the Blaine/Spring Lake Park/Columbia Heights/Fridley Life.
The newspaper notice announces the 30-day public comment period
concerning the Notice of Intent to Delete the Fridley Well Field Site
from the NPL.
(6) EPA placed copies of documents supporting the proposed deletion
in the deletion docket and made these items available for public
inspection and copying at https://www.regulations.gov, Docket ID No.
EPA-HQ-SFUND-1999-0013 and at https://cumulis.epa.gov/supercpad/SiteProfiles/index.cfm?fuseaction=second.docdata&id=0506449.
If comments are received within the 30-day public comment period on
this document, EPA will evaluate and respond appropriately to the
comments before making a final decision to delete. If necessary, EPA
will prepare a Responsiveness Summary to address any significant public
comments received. After the public comment period, if EPA determines
it is still appropriate to delete the Site from the NPL, the EPA will
publish a final Notice of Deletion in the Federal Register. Public
notices, public submissions, and copies of the Responsiveness Summary,
if prepared, will be made available to interested parties and in the
docket listed above.
Deletion of a site from the NPL does not itself create, alter, or
revoke any individual's rights or obligations. Deletion of a site from
the NPL does not in any way alter EPA's right to take enforcement
actions, as appropriate. The NPL is designed primarily for
informational purposes and to assist EPA management. Section
300.425(e)(3) of the NCP states that the deletion of a site from the
NPL does not preclude eligibility for future response actions, should
future conditions warrant such actions.
IV. Basis for Site Deletion
The EPA placed copies of EPA's Final Close Out Report for the Site
and other documents supporting the proposed deletion in the deletion
docket. The material provides explanation of EPA's rationale for the
deletion and demonstrates how the Fridley Well Field Site meets the
deletion criteria. This information is made available for public
inspection in the docket identified above.
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.
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.
Dated: June 4, 2020.
Kurt Thiede,
Regional Administrator, Region 5.
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