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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. For additional information 

about EPA’s public docket visit the EPA 

Docket Center homepage at http:// 

www.epa.gov/epahome/dockets.htm. 

Docket: All documents in the docket 

are listed in the 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 statute. 

Certain other material, such as 

copyrighted material, will be publicly 

available only in hard copy. Publicly 

available docket materials are available 

either electronically in 

www.regulations.gov or in hard copy at 

the Water Docket, EPA/DC, EPA West, 

Room 3334, 1301 Constitution Ave., 

NW., Washington, DC. The Public 

Reading Room is open from 8:30 a.m. to 

4:30 p.m., Monday through Friday, 

excluding legal holidays. The telephone 

number for the Public Reading Room is 

(202) 566–1744, and the telephone 

number for the Water Docket is (202) 

566–2426. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Barry Burgan, Ocean and Coastal 

Protection Division, Office of Water, 

4504T, Environmental Protection 

Agency, 1200 Pennsylvania Avenue, 

NW., Washington, DC 20460, telephone 

number: 202–566–1242; fax number: 

202–566–1336; e-mail address: 

Burgan.Barry@epa.gov or Virginia 

Engle, Gulf Ecology Division, Office of 

Research and Development, 

Environmental Protection Agency, 1 

Sabine Island Drive, Gulf Breeze, 

Florida 32561; telephone number: (850) 

934–9354; fax number: (850) 934–9201; 

e-mail address: Engle.Virginia@epa.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

General Information 

In 2001, the first National Coastal 

Condition Report was released, 

characterizing about 70% of the 

estuarine resources of the United States. 

Using available data from 1990–1996, 

EPA, the National Oceanic and 

Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), 

U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), U.S. 

Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS), and 

U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) 

determined that the Nation’s estuarine 

resources were in fair condition and 

presented this information in the first 

Report. The second National Coastal 

Condition Report, released in 2005, 

described the condition of 100% of the 

Nation’s estuaries in the contiguous 48 

states and Puerto Rico. This third 

edition of the National Coastal 

Condition Report serves as a continuing 

foundation for the Nation’s efforts to 

protect, manage, and restore coastal 

ecosystems. Four Federal agencies (EPA, 

NOAA, USGS and the USFWS) and 

several state and regional/local 

organizations have come together to 

report on the current condition of the 

Nation’s coasts. 

The draft National Coastal Condition 

Report III describes the condition of 

coastal waters based on several available 

data sets from different agencies and 

areas of the country and summarizes 

them to present a continuing picture of 

the condition of coastal waters. 

Although the data sets presented do not 

cover all coastal areas (e.g., no data were 

collected in Alaska other than south 

central Alaska and the Trust 

Territories), they do provide a multiregional assessment of coastal condition 

in the conterminous United States and 

Puerto Rico. For example, EPA’s 

National Coastal Assessment is 

conducting estuarine monitoring in all 

23 coastal states and Puerto Rico, 

accounting for 99.8% of estuarine 

acreage in the continental U.S. and 

Puerto Rico. Data from several regional 

and national programs conducted by 

NOAA, USGS and the USFWS are 

included in this assessment of coastal 

condition. This report serves as a useful 

tool for analyzing the progress of coastal 

programs implemented since the first 

Report and as a benchmark for the 

future and provides trends in condition 

over time. This report will be followed 

in subsequent years by reports focusing 

on continuing assessments of ecological 

condition, examinations of the trends in 

coastal condition, and assessments of 

more specialized coastal issues. 

The draft National Coastal Condition 

Report III will undergo an external peer 

review conducted by EPA’s Office of 

Research and Development. The peer 

review plan, including peer review 

charge questions, is available on EPA’s 

Science Inventory Web site (http:// 

cfpub.epa.gov/si/ 

si_record_view.cfm?dirEntryID=161923). 

You may view and download the draft 

Report on EPA’s Internet site at the 

Office of Water homepage at http:// 

www.epa.gov/owow/oceans/nccr3/ 

index.html under Recent Additions. 

Dated: March 2, 2007. 

Benjamin H. Grumbles, 

Assistant Administrator for Water. 

[FR Doc. E7–4294 Filed 3–8–07; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6560–50–P 

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 

AGENCY 

[FRL–8286–5] 

Omega Chemical Superfund Site; 

Notice of Proposed CERCLA 

Administrative Settlement With Certain 

Ability To Pay Parties 

AGENCY: Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA). 

ACTION: Notice; request for public 

comment. 

SUMMARY: In accordance with Section 

122(i) of the Comprehensive 

Environmental Response, 

Compensation, and Liability Act, as 

amended (CERCLA), 42 U.S.C. 9622(i), 

notice is hereby given of a proposed 

administrative settlement for recovery of 

past response costs concerning the 

Omega Chemical Site in Whittier, Los 

Angeles County, California with 12 

settling ability to pay parties. The 

settlement is entered into pursuant to 

Section 122(h) of CERCLA, 42 U.S.C. 

9622(h), and it requires the settling 

parties to pay approximately $111,000 

to the United States Environmental 

Protection Agency (EPA). The 

settlement includes a covenant not to 

sue the settling parties, pursuant to 

Section 107(a) of CERCLA, 42 U.S.C. 

9607(a). For thirty (30) days following 

the date of publication of this notice, the 

Agency will receive written comments 

relating to the settlement. The Agency 

will consider all comments received and 

may modify or withdraw its consent to 

the settlement if comments received 

disclose facts or considerations which 

indicate that the settlement is 

inappropriate, improper, or inadequate. 

The Agency’s response to any comments 

received will be available for public 

inspection at 75 Hawthorne Street, San 

Francisco, CA 94105. 

DATES: Comments must be submitted on 

or before April 9, 2007. 

ADDRESSES: The proposed settlement is 

available for public inspection at EPA 

Region IX, 75 Hawthorne Street, San 

Francisco, California. A copy of the 

proposed settlement may be obtained 

from Steve Berninger, EPA Region IX, 

75 Hawthorne Street, ORC–3, San 

Francisco, CA 94105, telephone number 

415–972–3909. Comments should 

reference the Omega Chemical 

Superfund Site, Whittier, California and 

EPA Docket No. 2006–26, and should be 

addressed to Steve Berninger at the 

above address. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Steve Berninger, Assistant Regional 

Counsel (ORC–3), Office of Regional 

Counsel, U.S. EPA Region IX, 75 


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Hawthorne Street, San Francisco, CA 

94105; phone: (415) 972–3909; fax: 

(415) 947–3570; e-mail: 

berninger.stephen@epa.gov. 

Dated: February 28, 2007. 

Keith Takata, 

Director, Superfund Division, Region IX. 

[FR Doc. E7–4274 Filed 3–8–07; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6560–50–P 

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 

AGENCY 

[FRL–8286–4] 

Notice of Proposed Administrative 

Settlement Pursuant to the 

Comprehensive Environmental 

Response, Compensation, and Liability 

Act 

AGENCY: Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA). 

ACTION: Notice; request for public 

comment. 

SUMMARY: In accordance with the 

Comprehensive Environmental 

Response, Compensation, and Liability 

Act of 1980, as amended (‘‘CERCLA’’), 

42 U.S.C. 9601 et seq., and the authority 

of the Attorney General of the United 

States to compromise and settle claims 

of the United States, notice is hereby 

given of a proposed administrative 

settlement resolving, subject to 

reservations and limitations, liability 

that owners of the St. Joe Chat Pile and 

of the underlying property located in 

Ottawa County, Oklahoma, might 

otherwise incur under CERCLA Sections 

106 or 107, 42 U.S.C. 9606, or 9607, 

arising from the sale of chat on the 

property in question. The settlement is 

entered into by the United States on 

behalf of the U.S. Environmental 

Protection Agency (EPA). 

Chat is a gravel-like mine refuse or 

mine tailings that is generally 

contaminated with the hazardous 

substances lead, cadmium and zinc. 

Approximately 49 million cubic yards 

of chat, including the St. Joe Pile, 

pollute the Tar Creek Superfund Site 

(Site). The Site is located in an 

approximately 40-square-mile area in 

northern Ottawa County, Oklahoma. 

The Site was mined for lead and zinc 

ore from the late 1800’s through the 

early 1970’s, and chat is part of the 

waste material left behind by the mining 

and milling activity. EPA has 

determined that one of the best ways to 

address contaminated chat piles on the 

Site is to sell and remove the chat for 

use in a manner that will not present a 

threat to human health or to the 

environment. Sale and removal of the 

chat will reduce the costs of additional 

response actions for the Site. The 

purpose of this Settlement Agreement is 

to encourage the sale of the chat in the 

St. Joe Chat Pile, by resolving certain 

liabilities of those with interests in the 

chat or in the property containing the 

chat, thereby helping free the chat for 

sale. 

Under the settlement, settlors (chat 

owners and property owners) agree to 

execute an agreement for the sale of the 

chat pile (if they own an interest in the 

chat), to provide access, and to refrain 

from activities that would inhibit sales. 

The settlement also includes settlors’

agreement not to sue the United States 

regarding any direct or indirect claim 

for reimbursement from the EPA 

Hazardous Substance Superfund 

pursuant to Internal Revenue Code, 26 

U.S.C. 9507, through CERCLA Sections 

106(b)(2), 111, 112, and 113, any claim 

under CERCLA Sections 107 or 113, or 

under any citizen suit provision of 

CERCLA, 42 U.S.C. 9659, the Resource 

Conservation and Recovery Act, 42 

U.S.C. 6972, the Clean Air Act, 42 

U.S.C. 7604, the Clean Water Act, 33 

U.S.C. 1365, or any other similar statues 

or other applicable environmental laws. 

In return, subject to reservations and 

limitations, the United States covenants 

not to sue or take civil judicial or 

administrative action against the settlors 

pursuant to Sections 106 and 107 of 

CERCLA, 42 U.S.C. 9606, and 9607, or 

other applicable law, for liability of 

response actions and/or claims for 

natural resource damages arising from 

the sale of the chat. 

For thirty (30) days following the date 

of publication of this notice, the Agency 

will receive written comments relating 

to the settlement. The Agency will 

consider all comments received and 

may modify or withdraw its consent to 

the settlement if comments received 

disclose facts or considerations which 

indicate that the settlement is 

inappropriate, improper, or inadequate. 

The Agency’s response to any comments 

received will be available for public 

inspection at 1445 Ross Avenue, Dallas, 

Texas 75202–2733. 

DATES: Comments must be submitted on 

or before April 9, 2007. 

ADDRESSES: The proposed settlement 

and additional background information 

relating to the settlement are available 

for public inspection at 1445 Ross 

Avenue, Dallas, Texas 75202–2733. A 

copy of the proposed settlement may be 

obtained from Kenneth Talton (6SF–

TE), U.S. EPA Region 6, 1445 Ross 

Avenue, Dallas, Texas 75202–2733 at 

(214) 665–7475. Comments should 

reference the Tar Creek Superfund Site, 

Ottawa County, Oklahoma, EPA Docket 

Number 06–12–06 and should be 

addressed to Kenneth Talton at the 

address listed above. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

James Costello (6RC–S), U.S. EPA 

Region 6, 1445 Ross Avenue, Dallas, 

Texas 75202–2733 at (214) 665–8045. 

Dated: March 1, 2007. 

Richard E. Greene, 

Regional Administrator, Region 6. 

[FR Doc. E7–4283 Filed 3–8–07; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6560–50–P 

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 

AGENCY 

[EPA–HQ–OPPT–2007–0162; FRL–8118–6] 

Certain New Chemicals; Receipt and 

Status Information 

AGENCY: Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA). 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: Section 5 of the Toxic 

Substances Control Act (TSCA) requires 

any person who intends to manufacture 

(defined by statute to include import) a 

new chemical (i.e., a chemical not on 

the TSCA Inventory) to notify EPA and 

comply with the statutory provisions 

pertaining to the manufacture of new 

chemicals. Under sections 5(d)(2) and 

5(d)(3) of TSCA, EPA is required to 

publish a notice of receipt of a 

premanufacture notice (PMN) or an 

application for a test marketing 

exemption (TME), and to publish 

periodic status reports on the chemicals 

under review and the receipt of notices 

of commencement to manufacture those 

chemicals. This status report, which 

covers the period from December 18, 

2006 to February 2, 2007, consists of the 

PMNs and TMEs, both pending or 

expired, and the notices of 

commencement to manufacture a new 

chemical that the Agency has received 

under TSCA section 5 during this time 

period. 

DATES: Comments identified by the 

specific PMN number or TME number, 

must be received on or before April 9, 

2007. 

ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, 

identified by docket identification (ID) 

number EPA–HQ–OPPT–2007–0162, by 

one of the following methods. 

• Federal eRulemaking Portal: http:// 

www.regulations.gov. Follow the on-line 

instructions for submitting comments. 

• Mail: Document Control Office 

(7407M), Office of Pollution Prevention 

and Toxics (OPPT), Environmental 

Protection Agency, 1200 Pennsylvania 


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