Federal Register / Vol. 62, No. 238 / Thursday, December 11, 1997 / Rules and Regulations 65225

Dated: November 25, 1997.

Susan Studlien,

Deputy Director, Office of Ecosystem

Protection, Region I.

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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION

AGENCY

40 CFR Part 300

[FRL–5933–2]

National Oil and Hazardous

Substances Contingency Plan;

National Priorities List Update

AGENCY: Environmental Protection

Agency.

ACTION: Notice of partial deletion of the

Para-Chem Southern, Inc. Superfund

Site from the National Priorities List.

SUMMARY: The Environmental Protection

Agency (EPA) announces the partial

deletion of the Para-Chem Superfund

site in Simpsonville, South Carolina

from the National Priorities List (NPL).

The portion to be deleted (Source

Control Portion of the Site) is described

below. 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 State of South Carolina

have determined that all appropriate

Fund-financed responses under

CERCLA have been implemented on the

portions of the property targeted for this

partial deletion and that no further

cleanup by responsible parties is

appropriate. Moreover, EPA and the

State of South Carolina Department of

Health and Environmental Control have

determined that remedial actions

conducted on these portions of the

property at the site to date remain

protective of public health, welfare, and

the environment.

EFFECTIVE DATE: January 12, 1998.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Terry L. Tanner, Remedial Project

Manager, U.S. EPA, Region 4, 61

Forsyth Street, Atlanta, GA 30303, 404/

562–8797.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The site

portion to be deleted from the NPL is a

portion (Source Control Portion) of the

Para-Chem Southern, Inc. Superfund

Site, Simpsonville, South Carolina. The

Source Control Portion of soils within

one waste disposal area of the Site

consisted of the excavation of 686 tons

of drums, waste, and contaminated

soils. These materials were classified as

a hazardous waste by characteristic, and

shipped to the GSX landfill. This partial

deletion does not include all site soil

actions nor the groundwater remedial

action which will remain on the NPL. A

Notice of Intent to Delete for this site

was published in the Federal Register

on June 30, 1997 (62 FR 35115). The

closing date for comments on the Notice

of Intent to Delete was July 30, 1997.

EPA received no comments during this

period.

The EPA identifies sites which appear

to present a significant risk to public

health, welfare, or the environment and

it maintains the NPL as the list of those

sites. Sites on the NPL may be the

subject of Hazardous Substance

Response Trust Fund (Fund) financed

remedial actions. Any site deleted from

the NPL remains eligible for fundfinanced remedial actions in the

unlikely event that conditions at the site

warrant such action. Section

300.66(c)(8) of the NCP states that fundfinanced actions may be taken at sites

deleted from the NPL. Deletion of a site

from the NPL does not affect responsible

party liability or impede agency efforts

to recover cost associated with response

efforts.

List of Subjects in 40 CFR Part 300

Environmental protection, Chemicals,

Hazardous waste, Intergovernmental

relations, Superfund.

Dated: September 16, 1997.

Phyllis P. Hall,

Acting Regional Administrator, Region 4.

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., 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 revising the entry for

‘‘Para-Chem Southern, Inc.,

Simpsonville, South Carolina’’ to read

as follows:

Appendix B to Part 300—National

Priorities List

Table 1.—GENERAL SUPERFUND SECTION

State Site name City/County Notes a

* * * * * * *

SC ...................................................... Para-Chem Southern, Inc ......................................................... Simpsonville ....................... P

* * * * * * *

a * * *

P=Sites with partial deletion(s).

* * * * *

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