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Commodity Parts per million Expiration date

Cottonseed oil ............................................................... 2.0 ............................................. Nov. 15, 1997

Tomato, concentrated products .................................... 0.5 ............................................. Do.

(b) [Reserved]

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PART 186—[AMENDED]

3. In part 186:

a. The authority citation for part 186

continues to read as follows:

Authority: 21 U.S.C. 348.

b. In § 186.1250, by revising

paragraph (a) and removing paragraph

(b) and designating it as reserved, as

follows:

§ 186.1250 Cyfluthrin.

(a) A tolerance, to expire on

November 15, 1997, is established for

residues of the insecticide cyfluthrin

(cyano[4-fluoro-3-

phenoxyphenyl]methyl-3-(2,2-

dicloroethenyl)-2,2-

dimethylcyclopropanecarboxylate) in or

on the following feed commodities:

Commodity Parts per million Expiration date

Cottonseed, hulls .......................................................... 2.0 ............................................. November 15, 1997

Tomato, pomace (dry and wet) .................................... 5.0 ............................................. Do.

(b) [Reserved]

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[FR Doc. 95–9149 Filed 4–10–95; 1:53 pm]

BILLING CODE 6560–50–F

40 CFR Part 300

[FRL–5188–1]

National Oil and Hazardous

Substances Pollution Contingency

Plan; National Priorities List

AGENCY: Environmental Protection

Agency.

ACTION: Notice of intent to delete

Hamilton Island (Site) from the National

Priorities List: Request for comments.

SUMMARY: The Environmental Protection

Agency (EPA) Region 10 announces its

intent to delete the Hamilton Island site

from the National Priorities List (NPL)

and requests public comment on this

proposed action. The NPL constitutes

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 (CERCLA) of 1980, as amended.

EPA and the State of Washington

Department of Ecology (Ecology) have

determined that the Site poses no

significant threat to public health or the

environment and, therefore, remedial

measures pursuant to CERCLA are not

appropriate.

DATES: Comments concerning this Site

may be submitted on or before May 12,

1995.

ADDRESSES: Comments may be mailed

to: Christopher Cora, U.S.

Environmental Protection Agency, 1200

Sixth Avenue, Mail Stop: HW–124,

Seattle, Washington 98101.

Comprehensive information on this

Site is available through the U.S. Army

Corps of Engineers public docket which

is available for viewing at the Hamilton

Island repositories at the following

locations:

North Bonneville City Hall/Community

Library North Bonneville, Washington

Bonneville Dam Second Powerhouse

and Bradford Island Visitor Center,

Skamania County, Washington

U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Portland

District, 333 S.W. First Street,

Portland, Oregon 97204

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Christopher Cora, U.S. Environmental

Protection Agency, 1200 Sixth Avenue,

Mail Stop: HW–124, Seattle,

Washington 98101, (206) 553–1148.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Table of Contents

I. Introduction

II. NPL Deletion Criteria

III. Deletion Procedures

IV. Basis of Intended Site Deletion

I. Introduction

The Environmental Protection Agency

(EPA) Region 10 announces its intent to

delete Hamilton Island from the

National Priorities List (NPL), appendix

B of the National Oil and Hazardous

Substances Pollution Contingency Plan

(NCP), 40 CFR part 300, and requests

comments on this deletion. EPA

identifies sites that appear to present a

significant risk to human health or the

environment and maintains the NPL as

a list of those sites. As described in

§ 300.425(e)(3) of the NCP, sites deleted

from the NPL remain eligible for

remedial actions in the unlikely event

that conditions at the site warrant such

actions.

EPA will accept comments on the

proposal to delete this Site for thirty

days after publication of this notice in

the Federal Register.

Section II of this notice explains the

criteria for deleting sites from the NPL.

Section III discusses procedures that

EPA is using for this action. Section IV

discusses the Hamilton Island Site and

explains how the Site meets the deletion

criteria.

II. NPL Deletion Criteria

Section 300.425(e) of the NCP

provides that releases may be deleted

from, or recategorized on the NPL where

no further response is appropriate. In

making a determination to delete a

release from the NPL, EPA shall

consider, in consultation with the state,

whether any of the following criteria

have been met:

(i) Responsible parties or other persons

have implemented all appropriate response

actions required;

(ii) All appropriate response under

CERCLA have been implemented, and no

further action by responsible parties is

appropriate, or

(iii) The remedial investigation has shown

that the release poses no significant threat to

public health or the environment and,

therefore, taking of remedial measures is not

appropriate.

Even if a site is deleted from the NPL,

where hazardous substances, pollutants,

or contaminants remain at the site above

levels that allow for unlimited use and

unrestricted exposure, EPA’s policy is

that a subsequent review of the site will

be conducted at least every five years

after the initiation of the remedial action

at the site to ensure that the site remains

protective of public health and the

environment. In the case of this Site,

where no hazardous wastes are above

health based levels and future access

does not require restriction, operation
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and maintenance activities and five-year

reviews will not be conducted.

However, if new information becomes

available which indicates a need for

further action, the federal government

may initiate remedial actions. Whenever

there is a significant release from a site

deleted from the NPL, the site may be

restored to the NPL without the

application of the Hazard Ranking

System.

III. Deletion Procedures

The following procedures were used

for the intended deletion of this Site: (1)

EPA Region 10 selected No Action as

the selected remedy in the Record of

Decision for the Site. The No Action

Record of Decision qualifies the Site for

inclusion on the Superfund Site

Construction Completion List and may

be used to initiate Deletion from the

NPL procedures. (2) The Washington

State Department of Ecology concurred

with the proposed deletion decision. (3)

A notice has been published in the local

newspaper and has been distributed to

appropriate Federal, State, and local

officials and other interested parties

announcing the commencement of a 30-

day public comment period on EPA’s

Notice of Intent to Delete; and, (4) All

relevant documents have been made

available for public review in the local

Site information repositories.

Deletion of the Site from the NPL does

not itself create, alter, or revoke any

individual rights or obligations. The

NPL is designed primarily for

informational purposes to assist Agency

management. As mentioned in Section

II of this Notice, § 300.425(e)(3) of the

NCP states that deletion of a site from

the NPL does not preclude eligibility for

future response actions.

For deletion of this Site, EPA’s

Regional Office will accept and evaluate

public comments on EPA’s Notice of

Intent to Delete before making a final

decision to delete. If necessary, the

Agency will prepare a Responsiveness

Summary if any significant public

comments are addressed.

A deletion occurs when the Regional

Administrator places a final notice in

the Federal Register. Generally, the NPL

will reflect deletions in the final update

following the Notice. Public notices and

copies of the Responsiveness Summary

will be made available to local residents

by the Regional office.

IV. Basis for Intended Site Deletion

The following site summary provides

the Agency’s rationale for the proposed

deletion of this Site from the NPL.

Hamilton Island is located adjacent to

the Columbia River, approximately one

and an half miles downstream from the

Bonneville Dam, in Skamania County

Washington, 40 miles east of Portland,

Oregon. The area surrounding the Site is

part of the Columbia River Gorge

National Scenic Area. Adjacent areas to

the Site are used for commercial,

residential and open space.

The Site was used by the U.S. Army

Corps of Engineers (USACE) for the

disposal of earthen materials and the

old town of North Bonneville during the

construction of the Bonneville Dam

Second Powerhouse between 1977 and

1982.

The Site was placed on the NPL on

October 14, 1992 as a Federal Facility.

The basis of the listing was for possible

releases of arsenic, copper, lead, zinc

and toluene above Ambient Water

Quality Criteria to the Columbia River

and other sensitive ecological areas. The

USACE entered into a Federal Facility

Agreement on September 24, 1993 with

USEPA and the Department of Ecology

to conduct a Remedial Investigation/

Feasibility Study and the necessary

Remedial Actions.

The Remedial Investigation

determined that there was not

unacceptable risk to human health or

the environment, in fact the only

contamination, above federal or state

health based levels, detected was low

level petroleum contamination in soils.

On November 29, 1994 USACE

proposed, in consultation with EPA and

Department of Ecology to take No

Action at the Site. No comments were

received in opposition to the proposal.

Human health and ecological risk

assessments were performed to assess

current or future potential adverse

human health or ecological effects

associated with exposure to chemicals

detected in soils, groundwater, surface

water and sediments at Hamilton Island.

Based on comparison of site specific

analytical data with EPA and State riskbased screening criteria, ecological

benchmarks, toxicity values, and the

detection frequency and exposure

potential of chemical constituents, it

was concluded that chemicals at

Hamilton Island do not pose an

unacceptable risk to human health or

the environment, under any land use

scenario. Accordingly, EPA will not

conduct ‘‘five-year reviews’’ at this Site.

One of the three criteria for deletion

specifies that EPA may delete a site

from the NPL if ‘‘the remedial

investigation has shown that the release

poses no significant threat to public

health or the environment and,

therefore, taking of remedial measures is

not appropriate’’. EPA, with

concurrence of Ecology, believes that

this criterion for deletion has been met.

It is concluded that there is no

significant threat to public health or the

environment and, therefore, no further

remedial action is necessary.

Subsequently, EPA is proposing

deletion of this Site from the NPL.

Documents supporting this action are

available from the docket.

Dated: March 30, 1995.

Chuck Clarke,

Regional Administrator, Region 10.

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BILLING CODE 6560–50–M

DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

National Highway Traffic Safety

Administration

49 CFR Part 571

[Docket No. 92–66; Notice 3]

RIN 2127–AF36

Federal Motor Vehicle Safety

Standards; Fuel System Integrity

AGENCY: National Highway Traffic

Safety Administration (NHTSA),

Department of Transportation (DOT).

ACTION: Advance notice of proposed

rulemaking (ANPRM).

SUMMARY: This notice announces the

agency’s plans to consider upgrading

Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standard

(FMVSS) No. 301, Fuel System Integrity,

by making the current crash

requirements more stringent and by

broadening the standard’s focus to

include mitigation concepts related to

fuel system components and

environmental and aging tests related to

components. This notice requests

comments on the agency’s plans to

explore a three-phase approach to

upgrading the standard. The notice also

requests data, methods, and strategies,

which may assist in the agency’s

regulatory decisions in defining specific

requirements and test procedures for

upgrading the standard.

DATES: Comments must be received on

or before June 12, 1995.

ADDRESSES: Comments should refer to

the docket and notice numbers above

and be submitted to: Docket Section,

National Highway Traffic Safety

Administration, 400 Seventh Street SW.,

Washington, D.C. 20590. Docket hours

are 9:30 a.m. to 4 p.m., Monday through

Friday.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Dr.

William J.J. Liu, Office of Vehicle Safety

Standards, National Highway Traffic

Safety Administration, 400 Seventh

Street SW., Washington, D.C. 20590.

Telephone: (202) 366–2264.