[Federal Register Volume 62, Number 67 (Tuesday, April 8, 1997)]
[Rules and Regulations]
[Pages 16706-16707]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 97-8817]
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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
40 CFR Part 300
[FRL-5806-5]
National Oil and Hazardous Substances Pollution Contingency Plan
National Priorities List Update
AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency.
ACTION: Notice of partial deletion of the Geneva Industries Superfund
Site from the National Priorities List.
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SUMMARY: The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announces the
deletion of a portion of the Geneva Industries Site (Site) in Houston,
Texas, from the National Priorities List (NPL). The portion to be
deleted (Source Control Portion of the Site) is described below. The
NPL is Appendix B of 40 CFR part 300 which is the National Oil and
Hazardous Substances Pollution Contingency Plan (NCP), which EPA
promulgated pursuant to Section 105 of the Comprehensive Environmental
Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980, as amended (CERCLA).
EPA and the State of Texas have determined that all appropriate Fund-
financed responses under CERCLA have been implemented and that no
further cleanup by responsible parties is appropriate. Moreover, EPA
and the State of Texas have determined that remedial actions conducted
at the Site to date have been protective of public health, welfare, and
the environment.
EFFECTIVE DATE: May 8, 1997.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Ernest R. Franke, Remedial Project
Manager, US EPA, Region 6, 1445 Ross Avenue, Dallas, Texas 75202-2733,
(214) 665-8521.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The site portion to be deleted from the NPL
is a portion (Source Control Portion) of the Geneva Industries
Superfund Site, Houston, Texas. The Source Control Portion of the Site
consists of the first seven components of the eight remedial action
components of the Record of Decision (ROD) for the Site. The Source
Control Portion of the Site includes: (1) Removal and disposal of all
surface faacilities, (2) plugging and abandoning unnecessary monitoring
wells, (3) excavation of 22,500 cubic yards of soils contaminated with
greater than one hundred parts per million polychlorinated biphenyls,
(4) excavation of all drums buried onsite, (5) disposal of excavated
material in an EPA-approved offsite facility, (6) construction of a
slurry wall barrier around the Site with a pressure relief well system,
and (7) construction of a permanent protective cap across the Site
surface. This partial deletion does not include the eighth ROD remedial
action component (Ground Water Portion of the Site), which will remain
on the NPL with remedial activities continuing for the ground water
system operation. The Ground Water Portion of the Site consists of
recovery and treatment of trichloroethylene contaminated ground water
in the thirty-foot and one-hundred-foot sands. A Notice of Intent for
Partial Deletion of this Site was published in the Federal Register on
October 31, 1996, (61 FR 56194). The closing date for public comment
was December 2, 1996. EPA received no comments during the comment
period.
EPA identifies sites which appear to present a significant risk to
public health, welfare, or the environment and maintains the NPL as a
list of the most serious of those sites. Sites on the NPL may be the
subject of remedial response actions financed using the Hazardous
Substance Response Trust Fund (Fund). Any site deleted from the NPL
remains eligible for Fund-financed remedial actions in the unlikely
event that conditions at the site warrant such action. Section
300.425(e)(3) of the NCP provides that in the event of a significant
release from a site deleted from the NPL the site shall 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 or impede
agency efforts to recover costs associated with response actions.
List of Subjects in 40 CFR Part 300
Environmental protection, Hazardous waste.
Dated: February 28, 1997.
Pamela Phillips,
Acting Regional Administrator, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency,
Region 6.
For the reasons set out in the preamble, 40 CFR part 300 is amended
as follows:
PART 300--[AMENDED]
1. The authority citation for part 300 continues to read as
follows:
Authority: 33 U.S.C. 1321(c)(2); 42 U.S.C. 9601-9657; E.O.
12777, 56 FR 54757, 3 CFR, 1991 Comp., 351; E.O. 12580; 52 FR 2923,
3 CFR, 1987 Comp., p. 193.
2. Table 1 of Appendix B to part 300 is amended by revising the
entry for ``Geneva Industries/Fuhrmann Energy'', Houston, Texas to 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
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TX.............................. Geneva Industries/Fuhrmann Houston........................ P
Energy.
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Notes: * * *
P = Sites within partial deletion(s).
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