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financed responses under the

Comprehensive Environmental

Response, Compensation, and Liability

Act (CERCLA), as amended, have been

implemented and that no further

cleanup is appropriate. Moveover, EPA

and the State have determined that

remedial actions conducted at the site to

date have been protective of public

health, welfare and the environment.

This deletion does not preclude future

action under Superfund.

EFFECTIVE DATE: May 15, 1996.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Robert West, Remedial Project Manager,

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency,

Region 4, North Superfund Remedial

Branch, 345 Courtland Street, N.E.,

Atlanta, Georgia 30365, (404) 347–7791,

extension 2033.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The Site

to be deleted from the NPL is: Gallaway

Pits Superfund Site, in Fayette County,

Tennessee.

A Notice of Intent to Delete for this

site was published on February 22,

1996, (FR–5428–2). The closing date for

comments on the Notice of Intent to

Delete was March 22, 1996. EPA

received no comments.

EPA identifies sites that appear to

present a significant risk to the public

health, welfare and the environment

and it maintains the NPL as the list of

those sites. Any site deleted from the

NPL remains eligible for Fund-financed

remedial actions in the future. Section

300.425(e)(3) of the NCP states that

Fund-financed actions may be taken at

sites deleted from the NPL. Deletion of

a site from the NPL does not affect

responsible party liability or impede

agency efforts to recover costs

associated with response efforts.

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, and Water supply.

Dated: April 4, 1996.

Phyllis P. Harris,

Acting Deputy Regional Administrator, U.S.

EPA Region 4.

For reasons set out in the preamble,

40 CFR Part 300 is amended as follows:

PART 300—[AMENDED]

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—[Amended]

2. Table 1 of Appendix B to part 300

is amended by removing the Gallaway

Pits Superfund Site, in Fayette County,

Tennessee.

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40 CFR Part 300

[FRL–5463–9]

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.

SUMMARY: The Environmental Protection

Agency (EPA) announces the deletion of

the 29th and Mead Ground Water

Contamination Site located in Wichita,

Kansas, from the National Priorities List

(NPL). The NPL is Appendix B of 40

CFR part 300. Part 300 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), as amended. In light of

the planned State action in this case,

EPA finds that no further response

under CERCLA is appropriate. The Site

is instead, in a pilot project, deferred to

the State of Kansas and will be

addressed by the Kansas Department of

Health and Environment (KDHE).

Deletion under this approach does not

indicate that the cleanup has been

completed, but rather that no further

Superfund involvement is necessary,

and that the Agency expects the

response at the Site will be completed

under an Agreement between the City of

Wichita and KDHE. EPA will consider

the effectiveness and efficiency of the

Site cleanup as well as the likelihood

that a similarly favorable outcome could

be reproduced elsewhere in deciding

whether such a policy will be

considered for other sites.

EFFECTIVE DATE: April 29, 1996.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

William Bunn, Remedial Project

Manager; Superfund Division, U.S.

Environmental Protection Agency,

Region 7; 726 Minnesota Avenue;

Kansas City, Kansas 66101. Phone: (913)

551–7792.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The site to

be deleted from the NPL is the 29th and

Mead Ground Water Contamination Site

in Wichita, Kansas. A Notice of Intent

to Delete was published January 31,

1996 (61 FR 3365). The closing date for

comments on the Notice of Intent to

Delete was March 1, 1996.

EPA received comment favoring this

proposed action from Mr. Robert Knight,

Mayor of Wichita, on behalf of the

Wichita City Council.

Sites on the NPL may be the subject

of Hazardous Substance Response Trust

Fund (Fund-) financed remedial action.

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 40 CFR 300.425(e)(3) of

the NCP states that Fund-financed

actions may be taken at sites deleted

from the NPL. Deletion of a site from the

NPL does not affect responsible party

liability or impede agency efforts to

recover costs associated with response

efforts.

An explanation of the criteria for

deleting this site from the NPL was

presented in Section II of the January

31, 1996, Notice of Intent to Delete (FR

61 3365). A description of the site and

how it meets the criteria for deletion

was presented in Section IV of that

Notice. The reasoning in the Notice of

Intent is adapted as EPA’s reasoning for

this final deletion.

List of Subjects in 40 CFR Part 300

Environmental protection, Hazardous

waste.

Dated: April 23, 1996.

Elliott P. Laws,

Assistant Administrator, Office of Solid Waste

and Emergency Response.

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. 1277, 56 FR 54757, 3 CFR,

1991 Comp., p. 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 the 29th and

Mead Ground Water Contamination

Site, Wichita, Kansas.

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