ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY 40 CFR Part 300 [EPA

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- X] National Oil and Hazardous Substance s Pollution Contingency Plan ; National Priorities List : P artial D eletion of the Eastland Woolen Mill Superfund Site AGENCY : Environm ental Protection Agency. ACTION : Proposed rule; notice of intent

. SUMMARY : The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Region 1 is issuing a N otice of I ntent to D elete the following properties at the Eastland Woolen Mill Superfund Site (Site) located in C orinna, Maine , from the National Priorities List (NPL) and requests public comments on this proposed action

. Properties owned by the Town of Corinna that include properties described in Quitclaim Deed dated August 18, 1997 and recorded in Book 6471, Page 278, also identified as Lot 118 in Tax Map 18 dated 2004 and several additional properties that were part of the former Eastland Woolen Mill complex that were acquired due to a tax foreclosure. The tax foreclosure properties are described in the Penobscot County Registry of Deeds in Condemnation Order dated December 8, 1999 and recorded in Book 7251, Page 47 and a portion of the property has been subdivided in accordance with a plan dated October 19, 2004 and entitled, “Subdivision Plan for the Town of Cor inna of Main Street Subdivision on Main Street, Hill Street & St. Albans Road in Corinna, County of Penobscot, Maine,” recorded in said Registry in Plan File 2004, No. 167 (the “Subdivision Plan”). Specifically subdivision Lots 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8, 9, 10, t he2 portion of Subdivision Lot 1 north of the Central Maine Power property and a portion of Lot 54 on Tax Map 18 , along with Lot 53 on Tax Map 18 , are proposed for deletion. The portions of Main Street and Hill Street within the subdivision are also propos ed for deletion. Lot 53 on Tax Map 18 is also recorded in Book 853, Page 391 as a warranty deed dated September 26, 1913 and is known as “Winchester Park”. Property owned by the State of Maine Department of Conservation identified in Release Deed dated December 5, 2003 Book 9114 , P age 194 , also identified in Tax Map 18 as Map 15 Lot 10 (which a portion of the State of Maine Department of Conservation recreational trail that ru ns through the Town of Corinna). Property owned by the State of Maine Departm ent of Transportation described in a Notice of Layout and Taking dated May 3, 2000 and recorded in the Penobscot County Registry of Deeds in Book 7357 , Page 29 , and being generally depicted on the Survey Plan Showing Property Subject to Proposed Environmen tal Covenants for Maine Department of Environmental Protection, Corinna, Penobscot County, Maine which is recorded in the Penobscot County Registry of Deeds as Plan File 2012 No. 20 dated March 29, 2012, but excluding the portion of the Maine Department of Transportation property bounded by Town of Corinna Subdivision Lot 1 , the East Branch of the Sebasticook River, Route 7, and Nokomis Road. Property owned by Central Maine Power identified in indenture dated May 2, 1956 and recorded in the Penobscot Count y Registry of Deeds in Book3 1532 , Page 228 , and generally depicted as Central Maine Power Company land in the Town of Corinna tax records as Lot 4 on Tax Map 20. The properties proposed for deletion are shown in Figure 11 of Partial Deletion Technical Me morandum dated June 2012 and will be referred to hereafter as “the properties proposed for deletion”. All Tax Map references are based on the T own of Corinna 2004 Tax Maps and the “Survey Plan Showing Property Subject to Proposed Environmental Covenants for Maine Department of Environmental Protection, Corinna, Penobscot County, Maine” which is recorded in the Penobscot County Registry of Deeds as Plan File 2012 No. 20 , dated March 29, 2012

. T he NPL, promulgated pursuant to section 105 of the Comprehensiv e Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA) of 1980, as amended, is an appendix of the National Oil and Hazardous Substances Pollution Contingency Plan (NCP). The EPA and the State of Maine , through the Maine Department of Environmen tal Protection , have determined that all appropriate response actions at these identified parcels under CERCLA, other than and five

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. However, this deletion does not preclude future actions under Superfund. This partial de letion pertains to all Site media ( including soil and groundwater)

. DATES : Comments must be received by [insert date 30 days from date of publication in the Federal Register ] ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, identified by Docket ID no. EPA

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. EPA’s policy is that all comments received will be included in the public do cket without change and may be made available online at http://www.regulations.gov , including any personal information provided, unless the comment includes information claimed to be Confidential Business Informa tion (CBI) or other information whose disclosure is restricted by statute. Do not submit information that you consider to be CBI , or otherwise protected , through http://www.regulations.gov

or e - mail. The http://www.regulations.gov w eb site is an “anonymous access” system, which means EPA will not know your identity or contact information unless you provide it in the body of your comment. If you send an e

- mail comment directly to EPA without going through http://www.regulations.gov , your e - mail address will5 be automatically captured and included as part of the comment that is placed in the public docket and made available on t he Internet. If you submit an electronic comment, EPA recommends that you include your name and other contact information in the body of your comment and with any disk or CD

- ROM you submit. If EPA cannot read your comment due to technical difficulties an d 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. Docket : All documents in the docket are li sted in the http://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 statue. Certain other mat erial, such as copyrighted material, will be publicly available only in hard copy. Publicly available docket materials are available either electronically in http://www.regulations.gov or on disk or physical cop y at: EPA Region 1 Record Center 5 Post Office Square Boston, MA 02109 Phone: 1

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– 2 p.m. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Edward Hathaway , Remedial Project Manager, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Region 1 , OSRR07

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.6 SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: In the “Rules and Regulations” Section of today’s Federal Register, we are publishing a direct final No tice of P artial D eletion for the following properties at the Eastland Woolen Mill Superfund Site without p rior Notice of Intent for Partial D eletion because EPA view s this as a noncontroversial revision and anticipate s no adverse comment. Properties owned by the Town of Corinna that include properties described in Quitclaim Deed dated August 18, 1997 and recorded in Book 6471, Page 278, also identified as Lot 118 in Tax Map 18 dated 2004 and several additional properties that were part of the former Eastland Woolen Mill complex that were acquired due to a tax foreclosure. T he tax foreclosure properties are described in the Penobscot County Registry of Deeds in Condemnation Order dated December 8, 1999 and recorded in Book 7251, Page 47 , a portion of the property has been subdivided in accordance with a plan dated October 19, 2004 entitled, “Subdivision Plan for the Town of Corinna of Main Street Subdivision on Main Street, Hill Street & St. Albans Road in Corinna, County of Penobscot, Maine,” recorded in said Registry in Plan File 2004, No. 167 (the “Subdivision Plan”). Spe cifically subdivision Lots 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8, 9, 10, the portion of Subdivision Lot 1 north of t he Central Maine Power property and a portion of Lot 54 on Tax Map 18 , along with Lot 53 on Tax Map 18 are proposed for deletion. The portions of Main Street an d Hill Street within the subdivision are also proposed for deletion. Lot 53 on Tax Map 18 is also recorded in Book 853, Page 391 , as a warranty deed dated September 26, 1913 and is known as “Winchester Park”.7 Property owned by the State of Maine Depart ment of Conservation identified in Release Deed dated December 5, 2003 Book 9114 , P age 194 , also identified in Tax Map 18 as Map 15 Lot 10 (which a portion of the State of Maine Department of Conservation recreational trail that runs through the Town of Co rinna). Property owned by the State of Maine Department of Transportation described in a Notice of Layout and Taking dated May 3, 2000 and recorded in the Penobscot County Registry of Deeds in Book 7357 , Page 29 , and being generally depicted on the Survey Plan Showing Property Subject to Proposed Environmental Covenants for Maine Department of Environmental Protection, Corinna, Penobscot County, Maine which is recorded in the Penobscot County Registry of Deeds as Plan File 2012 No. 20 , dated March 29, 2012 , but excluding the portion of the Maine Department of Transportation property bounded by Town of Corinna Subdivision Lot 1; the East Branch of the Sebasticook River, Route 7, and Nokomis Road. Property owned by Central Maine Power identified in indenture dated May 2, 1956 and recorded in the Penobscot County Registry of Deeds in Book 1532 , Page 228 , and generally depicted as Central Maine Power Company land in the Town of Corinna tax records as Lot 4 on Tax Map 20. The properties proposed for deletion a re shown in Figure 11 of Partial Deletion Technical Memorandum dated June 2012 and will be referred to hereafter as “the properties proposed for deletion”. All Tax Map references are based on the Town of Corinna 2004 Tax Maps and the “Survey Plan Showing Property Subject to ProposedEnvironmenta l Covenant s fo r Main e Departmen t

o f Environmenta l Protection , Corinna , Penobsco t

County , Maine " whic h i s recorde d i n th e Penobsco t Count y Registr y o f

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. W e hav e explaine d ou r

reason s fo r

thi s partia l deletio n i n th e preambl e t o th e direc t final Notic e o f

Partia l Deletion , an d thos e reason s ar e incorporate d herein

. I f w e receiv e n o advers e comment(s ) o n thi s partia l deletio n action , w e wil l not tak e furthe r actio n o n thi s Notic e o f

Inten t fo r Partia l Deletion

. I f

w e receiv e advers e eomment(s) , w e wil l withdra w th e direc t

final Notic e o f

Partia l Deletio n an d i t

wil l not tak e effect

. W e will , a s appropriate , addres s al l publi c comment s i n a subsequen t final Notic e o f

Partia l Deletio n base d o n thi s Notic e o f Inten t fo r Partia l Deletion

. W e wil l not institut e a
secon d commen t

perio d o n thi s Notic e o f

Inten t fo r Partia l Deletion

. An y partie s intereste d i n commentin g mus t d o s o a t thi s time

. Fo r additional information , se e th e direc t final Notic e o f

Partia l Deletio n whic h i s locate d i n th e Rule s sectio n o f thi s Federa l Register

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