[Federal Register Volume 77, Number 161 (Monday, August 20, 2012)]
[Proposed Rules]
[Pages 50070-50071]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Printing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2012-20266]
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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
40 CFR Part 300
[EPA-HQ-SFUND-1983-0002; FRL-9718-3]
National Oil and Hazardous Substances Pollution Contingency Plan;
National Priorities List: Deletion of the Hooker (Hyde Park) Superfund
Site
AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency.
ACTION: Proposed rule; notice of intent.
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SUMMARY: The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Region 2 is issuing
a Notice of Intent to Delete the Hooker (Hyde Park) Superfund Site
(Site) located in Niagara Falls, New York, 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 State of
New York, through the Department of Environmental Conservation, have
determined that all appropriate response actions under CERCLA, other
than operation, maintenance, and five-year reviews, have been
completed. However, this deletion does not preclude future actions
under Superfund.
DATES: Comments must be received by September 19, 2012.
ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, identified by Docket ID no. EPA-HQ-
SFUND-1983-0002, by one of the following methods:
Web site: http://www.regulations.gov. Follow on-line
instructions for submitting comments.
Email: sosa.gloria@epa.gov.
Fax: To the attention of Gloria M. Sosa at 212-637-4284.
Mail: Gloria M. Sosa, Remedial Project Manager, Emergency
and Remedial Response Division, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency,
Region 2, 290 Broadway, 20th Floor, New York, NY 10007-1866.
Hand delivery: Superfund Records Center, 290 Broadway,
18th Floor, New York, NY 10007-1866 (telephone: 212-637-4308). (Monday
to Friday from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.). Such deliveries are only accepted
during the Docket's normal hours of operation, and special arrangements
should be made for deliveries of boxed information.
Instructions: Direct your comments to Docket ID no. EPA-HQ-SFUND-
1983-0002. EPA's policy is that all comments received will be included
in the public docket without change and may be made available online at
http://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 http://www.regulations.gov or email. The http://www.regulations.gov Web site
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 http://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 http://www.regulations.gov index. Although listed in the index, some
information is not publicly available, e.g., CBI or other information
whose disclosure is restricted by statue. Certain other material, such
as copyrighted material, will be publicly available only in the hard
copy. Publicly available docket materials are available either
electronically in http://www.regulations.gov or in hard copy at:
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Region 2, Superfund Records
Center, 290 Broadway, 18th Floor, New York, NY 10007-1866, Phone: 212-
637-4308, Hours: Monday to Friday from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.
U.S. EPA Western NY Public Information Office, 86 Exchange Place,
Buffalo, NY 14204-2026, Telephone: (716) 551-4410, Hours: Monday to
Friday from 8:30 a.m.-4 p.m.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Gloria M. Sosa, Remedial Project
Manager, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Region 2, 290 Broadway,
20th Floor, New York, NY 10007-1866, telephone: 212-637-4283, email:
sosa.gloria@epa.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: In the ``Rules and Regulations'' Section of
today's Federal Register, we are publishing a direct final Notice of
Deletion of the Hyde Park Landfill Superfund Site without prior Notice
of Intent to Delete 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
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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 section of this 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. 1321(c)(2); 42 U.S.C. 9601-9657; 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: August 9, 2012.
Judith A. Enck,
Regional Administrator, EPA, Region 2.
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