Superfund program: National oil and hazardous substances contingency plan— National priorities list update,

[Federal Register: September 23, 1999 (Volume 64, Number 184)]

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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

40 CFR Part 300

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

AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency.

ACTION: Notice of deletion of the Smuggler Mountain Superfund site from the National Priorities List (NPL).

SUMMARY: The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announces the deletion of the Smuggler Mountain Superfund Site located in northeastern Aspen, Pitkin County, Colorado, from the National Priorities List (NPL). The NPL is Appendix B of 40 CFR part 300 which is the National Oil and Hazardous Substances Contingency Plan (NCP), which EPA promulgated pursuant to section 105 of the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980 (CERCLA), as amended. EPA and the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment (CDPHE) have determined that the Site poses no significant threat to public health or the environment as long as Operation and Maintenance (O&M) measures and institutional controls are in force and working. Therefore, no further remedial measures pursuant to CERCLA are appropriate.

EFFECTIVE DATE: September 23, 1999.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Armando Saenz, Remedial Project Manager, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Region 8, 999 18th Street, Suite 500, Mail Stop 8EPR-SR, Denver, Colorado 80202-2466, (303) 312-6559.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The Site to be deleted from the NPL is: Smuggler Mountain Superfund Site, Aspen, Pitkin County, Colorado.

A Notice of Intent to Delete for this site was published on August 9, 1999 (64 FR 43129). The closing date for comments on the Notice of Intent to Delete was September 8, 1999. EPA received no comments.

EPA identifies sites that appear to present significant risk to public health, welfare, or the environment and it maintains the NPL as the list of those sites. 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 in the future. 40 CFR 300.425(e)(3) of the NCP. Deletion of a site from the NPL does not affect responsible party liability or impede agency efforts to recover costs associated with response efforts.

List of Subjects in 40 CFR Part 300

Environmental protection, Hazardous substances, Hazardous waste, Intergovernmental relations, Superfund.

Dated: September 15, 1999. Patricia D. Hull, Acting Regional Administrator, Region 8.

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., p 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 the Site ``Smuggler Mountain, Pitkin County, Colorado.''

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