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

[Federal Register: December 29, 1998 (Volume 63, Number 249)]

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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

40 CFR Part 300

[FRL-6209-3]

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

AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

ACTION: Notice of deletion for the Hill Property portion of the American Cyanamid Superfund Site from the National Priorities List.

SUMMARY: The United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announces the deletion of the Hill Property (HP) portion of the American Cyanamid Superfund Site from the National Priorities List (NPL). The American Cyanamid Site is located in Bound Brook, New Jersey in the southeastern section of Bridgewater Township, Somerset County. 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 (CERCLA), as amended. EPA and the State of New Jersey have determined that all appropriate response actions under CERCLA have been implemented at the HP portion of the American Cyanamid site to protect human health, welfare and the environment. This partial deletion pertains only to the HP portion of the American Cyanamid Site and does not include the other portions of the American Cyanamid Site.

EFFECTIVE DATE: December 29, 1998.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Jeff Catanzarita, Remedial Project Manager, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Region II, 290, Broadway--19th Floor, New York, NY 10007-1866, (212) 637-4409.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The site to be partially deleted from the NPL is: the Hill Property (HP) portion of the American Cyanamid Site located in Bridgewater, Somerset County, New Jersey.

A Notice of Intent to Delete for the HP portion was published on October 20, 1998 (63 FR 55986). The closing date for comments on the Notice of Intent to Delete was November 19, 1998. EPA received no comments. The Deletion Docket may be reviewed at the EPA Region II office in New York, New York, the Bridgewater Town Hall and Somerset County/Bridgewater Library in Bridgewater, New Jersey, and New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection office in Trenton, New Jersey.

EPA identifies sites that appear to present a significant risk to public health, welfare, or the environment and it maintains the NPL as the list of those sites. As described in 40 CFR 300.425(e)(3) of the NCP, any site or portion thereof deleted from the NPL remains eligible for remedial actions in the unlikely event that conditions warrant such action in the future. Deletion of a portion 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, Air pollution control, Chemicals, Hazardous waste, Hazardous substances, Intergovernmental relations, Penalties, Reporting and recordkeeping requirements, Superfund, Water pollution control, Water supply.

Dated: December 12, 1998. William Muszynski, Acting Regional Administrator, Region I.

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: 42 U.S.C. 9601-9657; 33 U.S.C. 1321(c)(2); E.O.12777, 56 FR 54757, 3 CFR 1991 Comp., p.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 ``American Cyanamid Co., Bound Brook, New Jersey'' to read as follows:

   Appendix B to Part 300--National Priorities List

   Table 1.--General Superfund Section

   State

   Site name

   City/County

   Notes(a)

   *

   *

   *

   * *

   *

   * NJ............ American Cyanamid Co.. Bound Brook...... P *

   *

   *

   * *

   *

   *

   (a) * * * P=Sites with partial deletion(s).

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