National Oil and Hazardous Substance Pollution Contingency Plan; National Priorities List

Federal Register: August 21, 2008 (Volume 73, Number 163)

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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY 40 CFR Part 300

EPA-HQ-SFUND-1987-0002; FRL-8706-6

National Oil and Hazardous Substance Pollution Contingency Plan

National Priorities List

AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency.

ACTION: Notice of Intent to Delete the Waste Inc. Landfill Superfund

Site from the National Priorities List.

SUMMARY: The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Region V is issuing a Notice of Intent to Delete the Waste Inc. Landfill Superfund Site

(Site) located in Michigan City, Indiana 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 found at Appendix B of 40 CFR part 300 which is the National Oil and Hazardous Substances Pollution Contingency Plan

(NCP). The EPA and the State of Indiana, through the Indiana Department of Environmental Management (IDEM), 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 22, 2008.

ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, identified by Docket ID no. EPA-HQ-

SFUND-1987-0002, by one of the following methods: http://www.regulations.gov: Follow on-line instructions for submitting comments.

E-mail: Dion Novak, Remedial Project Manager, at novak.dion@epa.gov or Robert Paulson, Community Involvement

Coordinator, at paulson.robert@epa.gov.

Fax: Gladys Beard at (312) 886-4071.

Mail: Dion Novak, Remedial Project Manager, U.S.

Environmental Protection Agency (SR-6J), 77 W. Jackson Blvd., Chicago,

IL 60604, (312) 886-4737, or Robert Paulson, Community Involvement

Coordinator, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (P-19J), 77 W.

Jackson Blvd., Chicago, IL 60604, (312) 886-0272 or 1-800-621-8431.

Hand delivery: Robert Paulson, Community Involvement

Coordinator, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (P-19J), 77 W.

Jackson Blvd., Chicago, IL 60604. 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- 1987-0002. 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 e-mail. 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 e-mail comment directly to EPA without going through http://www.regulations.gov, your e-mail 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:

The Regional Office, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, 77 W.

Jackson Blvd., Chicago, IL 60604; official hours of business are Monday through Friday, 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., excluding Federal holidays.

Michigan City Public Library, 100 E. Fourth St., Michigan City, IN 46360, (815) 939-4564; Monday through Thursday, 9 a.m. to 8 p.m., and

Friday and Saturday, 9 a.m. to 6 p.m.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Dion Novak, Remedial Project Manager,

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (SR-6J), 77 W. Jackson Blvd.,

Chicago, IL 60604, (312) 886-4737, novak.dion@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 Waste Inc. 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 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 substances, Hazardous waste, 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 7, 2008.

Walter W. Kovalick, Jr.,

Acting Regional Administrator, Region V.

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