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

[Federal Register: April 2, 1999 (Volume 64, Number 63)]

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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

40 CFR Part 300

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

AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency.

ACTION: Notice of deletion of the Williams Pipe Line Disposal Pit Site from the National Priorities List (NPL).

SUMMARY: The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announces the deletion of the Williams Pipe Line Disposal Pit Site (Site) in Minnehaha County, Sioux Falls, South Dakota, from the National Priorities List(NPL). The NPL is Appendix B of Title 40 of the Code of Federal Regulations (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 in consultation with the state of South Dakota has determined that the Site poses no significant threat to public health or the environment and, therefore, no further remedial measures pursuant to CERCLA are appropriate.

EFFECTIVE DATE: April 2, 1999.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Dennis Jaramillo, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Region 8, 999 18th Street, Suite 500, Mailcode: 8EPR-SR, Denver, CO 80202, telephone (303) 312-6580.

SUPPLEMEMTARY INFORMATION: The site to be deleted from the NPL is: the Williams Pipe Line Disposal Pit in Minnehaha County, Sioux Falls, South Dakota.

A Notice of Intent to Delete for this site was published on November 25, 1998, (63 FR 65161). The closing date for comments on the Notice of Intent to Delete was January 4, 1999. No comments were received during the comment period. In response, since no comments were received EPA is going forward with the Site deletion from the NPL.

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

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.

Dated: March 24, 1999. William P. Yellowtail, Regional Administrator, Region VIII.

For 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 Williams Pipe Line Co. Disposal Pit, Sioux Falls, SD''.

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