Federal Register / Vol. 62, No. 67 / Tuesday, April 8, 1997 / Rules and Regulations 16707

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[FR Doc. 97–8817 Filed 4–7–97; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 6560–50–P

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION

AGENCY

40 CFR Part 300

[FRL–5806–4]

National Oil and Hazardous

Substances Pollution Contingency

Plan; National Priorities List Update

AGENCY: Environmental Protection

Agency.

ACTION: Notice of deletion of the

Triangle Chemical Company Superfund

Site from the National Priorities List.

SUMMARY: The Environmental Protection

Agency (EPA) announces the deletion of

the Triangle Chemical Company Site

(Site) in Bridge City, Texas, from the

National Priorities List (NPL). 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 Fundfinanced 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, U.S. EPA, Region 6, 1445 Ross

Avenue, Dallas, Texas 75202–2733,

(214) 665–8521.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The site to

be deleted from the NPL is the Triangle

Chemical Company Site, Bridge City,

Texas. A Notice of Intent to Delete for

this site was published in the Federal

Register on October 31, 1996 (61 FR

56197). 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 21, 1997.

Myron O. Knudson,

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.

Appendix B—[Amended]

2. Table 1 of Appendix B to part 300

is amended by removing ‘‘Triangle

Chemical Co.’’, the site for Bridge City,

Texas.

[FR Doc. 97–8818 Filed 4–7–97; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 6560–50–P

DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

Federal Highway Administration

49 CFR Parts 387, 390, and 395

RIN 2125–AE07

Minimum Levels of Financial

Responsibility for Motor Carriers;

Hours of Service of Drivers; Technical

Amendments

AGENCY: Federal Highway

Administration (FHWA), DOT.

ACTION: Final rule; technical

amendments.

SUMMARY: This document amends the

financial responsibility regulations to

more broadly define the term State, and

removes an unnecessary definition for

the term farm-to-market agricultural

transportation from the Federal Motor

Carrier Safety Regulations (FMCSRs).

This document also revises the hours of

service of drivers regulations to clarify

the requirement that a commercial

motor vehicle (CMV) driver show either:

the number assigned by the motor

carrier, or the license number and

licensing State of each CMV operated

during a 24-hour period on his or her

record of duty status.

DATES: Effective on April 8, 1997.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mr.

Peter C. Chandler, Office of Motor

Carrier Research and Standards, (202)

366–5763, or Mr. Charles E. Medalen,

Office of the Chief Counsel, (202) 366–

1354, Federal Highway Administration,

Department of Transportation, 400

Seventh Street, SW., Washington, DC

20590. Office hours are from 7:45 a.m.

to 4:15 p.m., e.t., Monday through

Friday, except Federal holidays.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Background

The FHWA has identified technical

amendments that are needed to add a

broader definition for the term State to

the financial responsibility regulations

at § 387.5, and to remove an

unnecessary definition for the term

farm-to-market agricultural

transportation from the FMCSRs at

§ 390.5. This document also clarifies the

requirement that a CMV driver show

either: (1) The number assigned by the

motor carrier, or (2) the license and

licensing State of each CMV operated

during a 24-hour period on his or her

record of duty status. The amendments

are discussed below.

Definitions (section 387.5)

The financial responsibility

regulations for motor carriers of

property in subpart A of part 387, 49

CFR, implement section 30 of the Motor

Carrier Act of 1980 (1980 Act) (Pub. L.

96–296, 94 Stat. 793, 820, codified at 49

U.S.C. 31139). Section 387.5 of 49 CFR

does not include a definition for the

term State. Unless specifically defined

in subchapter B, chapter III, 49 CFR, the

definitions set forth in § 390.5 are

applicable to all parts (including

subpart A of part 387) in subchapter B.

Section 390.5 defines the term State

as ‘‘a State of the United States and the

District of Columbia and includes any

political subdivision of a State.’’ The

term State is defined at 49 U.S.C.

31139(a)(3), however, as ‘‘a State of the

United States, the District of Columbia,

Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands,

American Samoa, Guam, and the

Northern Marianas.’’ Thus, the

regulatory definition for the term State

at § 390.5 in the context of minimal

levels of financial responsibility for

motor carriers of property, is narrower