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3.3.3 Additional Conditions 

Only the authorized recipient (or legal 

agent) of the business’s (or 

organization’s) mail may activate the 

request for PFS Commercial service. 

PFS Commercial service agreements are 

subject to these additional standards: 

[Revise items 3.3.3a and 3.3.3b as 

follows:] 

a. Customers must pay an annual 

enrollment fee to establish service, 

regardless of the number of individual 

P.O. Boxes, Caller Service numbers, or 

street delivery addresses included for 

each servicing post office. The 

enrollment fee is refundable only if the 

request is denied. 

b. For requests made in writing to the 

origin Post Office, the annual 

enrollment fee may be paid at a retail 

Post Office location, station or branch; 

the applicable Priority Mail postage for 

each shipment container is paid using 

the customer’s PostalOne! permit 

account. For requests made through the 

Business Customer Gateway, the annual 

enrollment fee and applicable Priority 

Mail Express postage for each shipment 

container is paid using a USPS 

Corporate Account including CAPS, for 

customers choosing Priority Mail 

Express service. 

* * * * * 

[Revise item 3.3.3g as follows:] 

g. Priority Mail Express, or mailpieces 

with USPS Tracking, Certified Mail, 

COD, Insured Mail, Signature 

Confirmation, or Adult Signature are 

shipped to the destination delivery 

office Postmaster separately, for proper 

handling. Registered Mail is not eligible 

for PFS Commercial service. 

* * * * * 

[Revise item 3.3.3i as follows:] 

i. Business customers may terminate 

their PFS Commercial service 

agreement, effective 24 hours after the 

USPS receives customer’s written notice 

of termination at the serving Post Office 

or through the Business Customer 

Gateway. The customer must pay all 

postage and fees as applicable for any 

shipments already scheduled before 

termination of service is made effective. 

* * * * * 

We will publish an appropriate 

amendment to 39 CFR part 111 to reflect 

these changes. 

Stanley F. Mires, 

Attorney, Federal Requirements. 

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BILLING CODE 7710–P 

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 

AGENCY 

40 CFR Part 300 

[EPA–HQ–SFUND–1983–0002; FRL–9914– 

01–Region 1] 

National Oil and Hazardous 

Substances Pollution Contingency 

Plan; National Priorities List: Deletion 

of the O’Connor Superfund Site 

AGENCY: Environmental Protection 

Agency. 

ACTION: Final rule. 

SUMMARY: The Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA) Region 1 announces the 

deletion of the O’Connor Superfund Site 

(Site) located in Augusta, Maine, from 

the National Priorities List (NPL). The 

NPL, promulgated pursuant to section 

105 of the Comprehensive 

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 Environmental 

Protection, have determined that all 

appropriate response actions under 

CERCLA, other than operation, 

maintenance, and five-year reviews, 

have been completed. However, this 

deletion does not preclude future 

actions under Superfund. 

DATES: This action is effective July 22, 

2014. 

ADDRESSES: EPA has established a 

docket for this action under Docket 

Identification No. EPA–HQ–SFUND– 

1983–0002. All documents in the docket 

are listed on the http://

www.regulations.gov Web site. Although 

listed in the index, some information is 

not publicly available, i.e., Confidential 

Business Information or other 

information whose disclosure is 

restricted by statute. Certain other 

material, such as copyrighted material, 

is not placed on the Internet and is 

publicly available only in hard copy 

form. Publicly available docket 

materials are available either 

electronically through http://

www.regulations.gov or in hard copy at 

the site information repositories. 

Locations, contacts, phone numbers and 

viewing hours are: 

EPA Records and Information Center, 5 

Post Office Square, First Floor, 

Boston, MA 02109–3912, Monday– 

Friday 8:00 a.m.–5:00 p.m., and 

Lithgow Public Library, 45 Winthrop 

St., Augusta, Maine 04330, Mon– 

Thurs 9:00 a.m.–8 p.m., Friday 9:00 

a.m.–5 p.m., Saturday 9:00 a.m.–12:00 

p.m. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Terrence Connelly, Remedial Project 

Manager, U.S. Environmental Protection 

Agency, Region 1, Mailcode OSRR07–1, 

5 Post Office Square, Suite 100, Boston, 

MA 02109–3919, (617) 918–1373, email: 

connelly.terry@epa.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

The site to be deleted from the NPL 

is the O’Connor Superfund Site, 

Augusta, Maine. A Notice of Intent to 

Delete for this Site was published in the 

Federal Register on March 12, 2014 (79 

FR 13967). 

The closing date for comments on the 

Notice of Intent to Delete was April 11, 

2014. Two public comments were 

received. One comment was critical of 

the remedy selected in 1989 as modified 

in 1994 and 2002 and stated that the 

Site should not be removed from the 

NPL until it was completely clean. The 

other comment raised an issue not 

related to the proposed action of 

deleting the Site from the NPL. 

In questioning the effectiveness of 

institutional controls to maintain 

protectiveness and seeking a remedy 

that concludes with a ‘‘completely 

clean’’ site, the comment questions the 

adequacy of the selected remedy. The 

remedy was selected following public 

comment periods in 1989, 1994, and 

2002 for the Record of Decision, the 

Explanation of Significant Differences, 

and the Record of Decision Amendment, 

respectively. EPA believes that the 

remedy selected is protective of human 

health and the environment. The 

selected remedy has been implemented, 

and all activities required under the 

remedy have been completed. 

Additionally, the activities completed at 

the O’Connor Superfund Site have 

satisfied those criteria that EPA has 

established for deletion of a site from 

the NPL. 

The comment also voiced the desire 

that the Site be completely clean before 

being deleted from the NPL. While this 

is an aspirational goal of the Superfund 

program, it is not technically feasible to 

return every site to unlimited use and 

unrestricted exposure. For example, 

there are municipal landfills where 

communities disposed of their waste for 

decades and many of these landfills are 

also Superfund sites. The costs for 

requiring local communities to pay for 

completely cleaning up these landfills 

so that they are available for any future 

use would be in the millions for each 

landfill. The technology and resources 

to achieve this goal of returning every 

site to pristine conditions are simply not 

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The second comment voiced concerns 

about health issues for herself and 

others who lived or who continue to 

live near the O’Connor Site and stating 

a view that the number of cancers and 

other health issues suffered by residents 

nearby the Site concerned her. The 

comment also expressed dismay that 

she had not been contacted about the 

Site when she had lived nearby. 

This comment did not address the 

substance of the proposed deletion nor 

question whether the remedial goals 

have been accomplished but speaks of 

health concerns. EPA completed a FiveYear Review of the Site in 2012 and 

determined that the remedy as 

implemented remains protective of 

human health and the environment. All 

potential exposure pathways have been 

controlled through the completed 

activities and institutional controls. The 

ongoing monitoring and five-year 

reviews ensure that EPA is able to 

confirm the protectiveness of the 

remedy. 

A responsiveness summary was 

prepared and placed in both the docket, 

EPA–HQ–SFUND–1983–0002, on 

www.regulations.gov, and in the local 

repository listed above. 

A Notice of Deletion for this Site was 

published in the Federal Register on 

March 12, 2014 (79 FR 13882). The 

Notice of Deletion summarized the 

deletion criteria, the deletion procedure, 

and the basis for deletion of the Site 

from the NPL. 

EPA maintains the NPL as the list of 

sites that appear to present a significant 

risk to public health, welfare, or the 

environment. Deletion from the NPL 

does not preclude further remedial 

action. Whenever there is a significant 

release from a site deleted from the NPL, 

the deleted site may 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 in the unlikely event that 

future conditions warrant further 

actions. 

List of Subjects in 40 CFR Part 300 

Environmental protection, Air 

pollution control, Chemicals, Hazardous 

waste, Hazardous substances, 

Intergovernmental relations, Penalties, 

Reporting and recordkeeping 

requirements, Superfund, Water 

pollution control, Water supply. 

Dated: July 2, 2014. 

H. Curtis Spalding, 

Regional Administrator, Region 1. 

For reasons set out in the preamble, 

40 CFR part 300 is amended as follows: 

PART 300—NATIONAL OIL AND 

HAZARDOUS SUBSTANCES 

POLLUTION CONTINGENCY PLAN 

■ 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., p. 351; E.O. 12580, 52 FR 2923; 

3 CFR, 1987 Comp., p. 193. 

Appendix B to Part 300—[Amended] 

■ 2. Table 1 of Appendix B to part 300 

is amended by removing ‘‘ME’’, 

‘‘O’Connor Co’’, ‘‘Augusta’’. 

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BILLING CODE 6560–50–P 

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

National Oceanic and Atmospheric 

Administration 

50 CFR Part 622 

[Docket No. 1206013412–2517–02] 

RIN 0648–XD386 

Fisheries of the Caribbean, Gulf of 

Mexico, and South Atlantic; 2014 

Commercial Accountability Measure 

and Closure for South Atlantic Snowy 

Grouper 

AGENCY: National Marine Fisheries 

Service (NMFS), National Oceanic and 

Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), 

Commerce. 

ACTION: Temporary rule; closure. 

SUMMARY: NMFS implements 

accountability measures (AMs) for 

commercial snowy grouper in the 

exclusive economic zone (EEZ) of the 

South Atlantic. Commercial landings for 

snowy grouper, as estimated by the 

Science and Research Director (SRD), 

are projected to reach the commercial 

annual catch limit (ACL) (commercial 

quota) on July 25, 2014. Therefore, 

NMFS closes the commercial sector for 

snowy grouper in the South Atlantic 

EEZ on July 25, 2014, and it will remain 

closed until the start of the next fishing 

season, January 1, 2015. This closure is 

necessary to protect the snowy grouper 

resource. 

DATES: This rule is effective 12:01 a.m., 

local time, July 25, 2014, until 12:01 

a.m., local time, January 1, 2015. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Catherine Hayslip, telephone: 727–824– 

5305, email: Catherine.Hayslip@

noaa.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The 

snapper-grouper fishery of the South 

Atlantic includes snowy grouper and is 

managed under the Fishery 

Management Plan for the SnapperGrouper Fishery of the South Atlantic 

Region (FMP). The FMP was prepared 

by the South Atlantic Fishery 

Management Council and is 

implemented under the authority of the 

Magnuson-Stevens Fishery 

Conservation and Management Act 

(Magnuson-Stevens Act) by regulations 

at 50 CFR part 622. 

The commercial ACL (equivalent to 

the commercial quota) for snowy 

grouper in the South Atlantic is 82,900 

lb (37,603 kg), gutted weight, for the 

current fishing year, January 1 through 

December 31, 2014, as specified in 50 

CFR 622.190(a)(1). 

Under 50 CFR 622.193(b)(1), NMFS is 

required to close the commercial sector 

for snowy grouper when the commercial 

ACL (commercial quota) is reached, or 

is projected to be reached, by filing a 

notification to that effect with the Office 

of the Federal Register. NMFS has 

determined that the commercial ACL for 

South Atlantic snowy grouper will have 

been reached by July 25, 2014. 

Accordingly, the commercial sector for 

South Atlantic snowy grouper is closed 

effective 12:01 a.m., local time, July 25, 

2014, until 12:01 a.m., local time, 

January 1, 2015. 

The operator of a vessel with a valid 

commercial vessel permit for South 

Atlantic snapper-grouper having snowy 

grouper onboard must have landed and 

bartered, traded, or sold such snowy 

grouper prior to 12:01 a.m., local time, 

July 25, 2014. NMFS implemented a 

closure of the recreational sector for 

snowy grouper in the South Atlantic on 

June 7, 2014 (79 FR 32497, June 5, 

2014). During the recreational closure, 

and thus, during this commercial 

closure, the bag and possession limit for 

snowy grouper in or from the South 

Atlantic EEZ is zero. Also during the 

commercial closure, the sale or 

purchase of snowy grouper taken from 

the EEZ is prohibited. The prohibition 

on sale or purchase does not apply to 

the sale or purchase of snowy grouper 

that were harvested, landed ashore, and 

sold prior to 12:01 a.m., local time, July 

25, 2014, and were held in cold storage 

by a dealer or processor. 

For a person on board a vessel for 

which a Federal commercial or charter 

vessel/headboat permit for the South 

Atlantic snapper-grouper fishery has 

been issued, the bag and possession 

limit and the sale and purchase 

provisions of the commercial closure for 

snowy grouper would apply regardless 

of whether the fish are harvested in state 

or Federal waters, as specified in 50 

CFR 622.190(c)(1)(ii). 


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