[Federal Register Volume 62, Number 67 (Tuesday, April 8, 1997)]
[Rules and Regulations]
[Page 16707]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 97-8818]


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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

40 CFR Part 300

[FRL-5806-4]


National Oil and Hazardous Substances Pollution Contingency Plan; 
National Priorities List Update

AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency.

ACTION: Notice of deletion of the Triangle Chemical Company Superfund 
Site from the National Priorities List.

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SUMMARY: The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announces the 
deletion of the Triangle Chemical Company Site (Site) in Bridge City, 
Texas, from the National Priorities List (NPL). 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, U.S. EPA, Region 6, 1445 Ross Avenue, Dallas, Texas 75202-
2733, (214) 665-8521.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The site to be deleted from the NPL is the 
Triangle Chemical Company Site, Bridge City, Texas. A Notice of Intent 
to Delete for this site was published in the Federal Register on 
October 31, 1996 (61 FR 56197). 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 21, 1997.
Myron O. Knudson,
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.

Appendix B--[Amended]

    2. Table 1 of Appendix B to part 300 is amended by removing 
``Triangle Chemical Co.'', the site for Bridge City, Texas.

[FR Doc. 97-8818 Filed 4-7-97; 8:45 am]
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