[Federal Register Volume 62, Number 67 (Tuesday, April 8, 1997)]
[Rules and Regulations]
[Pages 16706-16707]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 97-8817]


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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

40 CFR Part 300

[FRL-5806-5]


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

AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency.

ACTION: Notice of partial deletion of the Geneva Industries Superfund 
Site from the National Priorities List.

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SUMMARY: The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announces the 
deletion of a portion of the Geneva Industries Site (Site) in Houston, 
Texas, 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 Pollution Contingency Plan (NCP), which EPA 
promulgated pursuant to Section 105 of the Comprehensive Environmental 
Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980, as amended (CERCLA). 
EPA and the State of Texas have determined that all appropriate Fund-
financed responses under CERCLA have been implemented and that no 
further cleanup by responsible parties is appropriate. Moreover, EPA 
and the State of Texas have determined that remedial actions conducted 
at the Site to date have been protective of public health, welfare, and 
the environment.

EFFECTIVE DATE: May 8, 1997.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Ernest R. Franke, Remedial Project 
Manager, US EPA, Region 6, 1445 Ross Avenue, Dallas, Texas 75202-2733, 
(214) 665-8521.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The site portion to be deleted from the NPL 
is a portion (Source Control Portion) of the Geneva Industries 
Superfund Site, Houston, Texas. The Source Control Portion of the Site 
consists of the first seven components of the eight remedial action 
components of the Record of Decision (ROD) for the Site. The Source 
Control Portion of the Site includes: (1) Removal and disposal of all 
surface faacilities, (2) plugging and abandoning unnecessary monitoring 
wells, (3) excavation of 22,500 cubic yards of soils contaminated with 
greater than one hundred parts per million polychlorinated biphenyls, 
(4) excavation of all drums buried onsite, (5) disposal of excavated 
material in an EPA-approved offsite facility, (6) construction of a 
slurry wall barrier around the Site with a pressure relief well system, 
and (7) construction of a permanent protective cap across the Site 
surface. This partial deletion does not include the eighth ROD remedial 
action component (Ground Water Portion of the Site), which will remain 
on the NPL with remedial activities continuing for the ground water 
system operation. The Ground Water Portion of the Site consists of 
recovery and treatment of trichloroethylene contaminated ground water 
in the thirty-foot and one-hundred-foot sands. A Notice of Intent for 
Partial Deletion of this Site was published in the Federal Register on 
October 31, 1996, (61 FR 56194). The closing date for public comment 
was December 2, 1996. EPA received no comments during the comment 
period.
    EPA identifies sites which appear to present a significant risk to 
public health, welfare, or the environment and maintains the NPL as a 
list of the most serious of those sites. Sites on the NPL may be the 
subject of remedial response actions financed using the Hazardous 
Substance Response Trust Fund (Fund). 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. Section 
300.425(e)(3) of the NCP provides that in the event of a significant 
release from a site deleted from the NPL the site shall be restored to 
the NPL without application of the Hazard Ranking System. Deletion of a 
site from the NPL does not affect responsible party liability or impede 
agency efforts to recover costs associated with response actions.

List of Subjects in 40 CFR Part 300

    Environmental protection, Hazardous waste.

    Dated: February 28, 1997.
Pamela Phillips,
Acting Regional Administrator, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, 
Region 6.

    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.

    2. Table 1 of Appendix B to part 300 is amended by revising the 
entry for ``Geneva Industries/Fuhrmann Energy'', Houston, Texas to read 
as follows:

Appendix B to Part 300--National Priorities List

                                       Table 1.--General Superfund Section                                      
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              State                           Site name                       City/county               Notes   
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TX..............................  Geneva Industries/Fuhrmann        Houston........................            P
                                   Energy.                                                                      
                                                                                                                
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P = Sites within partial deletion(s).                                                                           


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