[Federal Register Volume 60, Number 53 (Monday, March 20, 1995)]
[Rules and Regulations]
[Page 14645]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 95-6770]



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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
40 CFR Part 300

[FRL-5174-2]


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

AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency.

ACTION: Notice of deletion of a site from the national priorities list.

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SUMMARY: The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announces the 
deletion of the Kent City Mobile Home Park Site in Kent City, Michigan 
from the National Priorities List (NPL). 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 1990 (CERCLA), as amended.

EFFECTIVE DATE: March 20, 1995.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Betty G. Lavis, Remedial Project 
Manager (HSE-5J); Waste Management Division; Emergency Response Branch; 
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Region 5; 77 West Jackson 
Boulevard; Chicago, IL 60604-3590. Phone (312) 886-7183.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 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 Fund-financed remedial actions in the unlikely 
event that conditions at the site warrant such action.
    Section 300. 66(c)(8) of the NCP states that Fund-financed actions 
may be taken at sites deleted from the NPL.
    The site EPA deletes from the NPL is the Kent City Mobile Home Park 
Site in Kent City, Michigan.
    An explanation of the criteria for deleting sites from the NPL was 
presented in section II of the November 8, 1994, Notice of Intent to 
Delete FR Doc. No. 94-27647. A description of the site and how it meets 
the criteria for deletion was presented in Section IV of that notice.
    The closing date for comments on the Notice of Intent to Delete was 
December 7, 1994.
    EPA received one comment on the deletion of the Kent City Mobile 
Home Park Site from the NPL.
    Comment: Commenter states they are ``concerned by the proposal to 
abandon a carbon tetrachloride contaminated well'' at the site because 
``groundwater is a valuable resource for present and future generations 
and that groundwater contamination should therefore be remediated 
whenever possible.''
    Response: EPA appreciates the concern and strongly agrees that 
groundwater is a valuable resource; it is EPA's policy to promote 
protection of our groundwater resource and to restore usable goundwater 
to beneficial use whenever possible. However, at the Kent City site, 
the level of contamination is so low and the area of contamination so 
localized, that remediation is not practical.

List of Subjects in 40 CFR Part 300

    Environmental protection, Hazardous waste.

PART 300--[AMENDED]

    40 CFR part 300 is amended as follows:
    1. The authority citation for part 300 continues to read as 
follows.

    Authority: 42 U.S.C. 9601-9657; 33 U.S.C. 1321(d); E.O. 11735, 
38 FR 21243; E.O. 12580, 52 FR 2923; E.O. 12777, 56 FR 54757.
Appendix B--[AMENDED]
    2. Table 1 of Appendix B to part 300 is amended by removing the 
entry for Kent City Mobile Home Park Site, Kent City, Michigan.

    Dated: March 8, 1995.
David A. Ullrich,
Acting Regional Administrator, U.S. EPA, Region V.
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