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TABLE 3.—WASTES EXCLUDED FROM COMMERCIAL CHEMICAL PRODUCTS, OFF-SPECIFICATION SPECIES, CONTAINER

RESIDUES, AND SOIL RESIDUES THEREOF

Facility Address Waste description

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Texas Eastman ...... Longview, Texas .... Incinerator ash (at a maximum generation of 7,000 cubic yards per calendar year) generated from

the incineration of sludge from the wastewater treatment plant (EPA Hazardous Waste No. U001,

U002, U003, U019, U028, U031, U037, U044, U056, U069, U070, U107, U108, U112, U113,

U115, U117, U122, U140, U147, U151, U154, U159, U161, U169, U190, U196, U211, U213,

U226, U239, and U359, after [insert publication date of the final rule]. Texas Eastman must implement the testing program described in Table 1. Wastes Excluded From Non-Specific Sources for

the petition to be valid.

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[FR Doc. 96–15883 Filed 6–24–96; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 6560–50–P

40 CFR Part 300

[FRL–5525–3]

National Oil and Hazardous

Substances Pollution Contingency

Plan; National Priorities List

AGENCY: Environmental Protection

Agency.

ACTION: Notice of Intent to Delete the

Omega Hills North Landfill Superfund

Site from the National Priorities List;

Request for Comments.

SUMMARY: The United States

Environmental Protection Agency (U.S.

EPA) Region V announces its intent to

delete the Omega Hills Landfill Site

from the National Priorities List (NPL)

and requests public comment on this

action. The NPL constitutes Appendix B

to the National Oil and Hazardous

Substances Pollution Contingency Plan

(NCP), which U.S. EPA promulgated

pursuant to Section 105 of the

Comprehensive Environmental

Response, Compensation, and Liability

Act of 1980 (CERCLA) as amended. This

action is being taken by U.S. EPA,

because it has been determined that all

Fund-financed responses under

CERCLA have been implemented and

U.S. EPA, in consultation with the State

of Wisconsin, has determined that no

further response is appropriate.

Moreover, U.S. EPA and the State have

determined that remedial activities

conducted at the Site to date have been

protective of public health, welfare, and

the environment.

DATE: Comments concerning the

proposed deletion of the Site from the

NPL may be submitted on or before July

25, 1996.

ADDRESSES: Comments may be mailed to

Gladys Beard, Associate Remedial

Project Manager, Superfund Division,

U.S. EPA, Region V, 77 W. Jackson Blvd.

(SR–6J), Chicago, IL 60604.

Comprehensive information on the site

is available at U.S. EPA’s Region V

office and at the local information

repository located at: Wisconsin

Department of Natural Resources, 101 S.

Webster, Madison, WI 53707. Requests

for comprehensive copies of documents

should be directed formally to the

Region V Docket Office. The address

and phone number for the Regional

Docket Officer is Jan Pfundheller (H–7J),

U.S. EPA, Region V, 77 W. Jackson

Blvd., Chicago, IL 60604, (312) 353–

5821.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Gladys Beard (SR–6J), Associate

Remedial Project Manager, Superfund

Division, U.S. EPA, Region V, 77 W.

Jackson Blvd., Chicago, IL 60604, (312)

886–7253 or Susan Pastor (P–19J),

Office of Public Affairs, U.S. EPA,

Region V, 77 W. Jackson Blvd., Chicago,

IL 60604, (312) 353–1325.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Table of Contents

I. Introduction

II. NPL Deletion Criteria

III. Deletion Procedures

IV. Basis for Intended Site Deletion

I. Introduction

The U.S. Environmental Protection

Agency (EPA) Region V announces its

intent to delete the Omega Hills North

Landfill Site from the National Priorities

List (NPL), which constitutes Appendix

B of the National Oil and Hazardous

Substances Pollution Contingency Plan

(NCP), and requests comments on the

proposed deletion. The EPA identifies

sites that appear to present a significant

risk to public health, welfare or the

environment, and maintains the NPL as

the list of those sites. Sites on the NPL

may be the subject of remedial actions

financed by the Hazardous Substance

Superfund Response Trust Fund (Fund).

Pursuant to Section 300.425(e)(3) of the

NCP, any site deleted from the NPL

remains eligible for Fund-financed

remedial actions if the conditions at the

site warrant such action.

The U.S. EPA will accept comments

on this proposal for thirty (30) 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 history of this site and

explains how the site meets the deletion

criteria.

Deletion of sites from the NPL does

not itself create, alter, or revoke any

individual’s rights or obligations.

Furthermore, deletion from the NPL

does not in any way alter U.S. EPA’s

right to take enforcement actions, as

appropriate. The NPL is designed

primarily for informational purposes

and to assist in Agency management.

II. NPL Deletion Criteria

The NCP establishes the criteria the

Agency uses to delete sites from the

NPL. In accordance with 40 CFR

300.425(e), sites may be deleted from

the NPL where no further response is

appropriate. In making this

determination, U.S. EPA will 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;

or

(ii) All appropriate Fund-financed

responses under CERCLA have been

implemented, and no further response

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, remedial

measures are not appropriate.

III. Deletion Procedures

Upon determination that at least one

of the criteria described in 300.425(e)

has been met, U.S. EPA may formally

begin deletion procedures once the State

has concurred. This Federal Register
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notice, and a concurrent notice in the

local newspaper in the vicinity of the

site, announce the initiation of a 30-day

comment period. The public is asked to

comment on U.S. EPA’s intention to

delete the Site from the NPL. All critical

documents needed to evaluate U.S.

EPA’s decision are included in the

information repository and the deletion

docket.

Upon completion of the public

comment period, if necessary, the U.S.

EPA Regional Office will prepare a

Responsiveness Summary to evaluate

and address comments that were

received. The public is welcome to

contact the U.S. EPA Region V Office to

obtain a copy of this responsiveness

summary, if one is prepared. If U.S. EPA

then determines the deletion from the

NPL is appropriate, final notice of

deletion will be published in the

Federal Register.

IV. Basis for Intended Site Deletion

The Omega Hills North Landfill is

located in the Village of Germantown in

Washington County, Wisconsin. The

Omega Hills North Landfill is a former

hazardous and solid waste disposal site.

The landfill is closed. A clay cover was

completed October 1, 1989.

Contaminants at the site include

benzene, vinyl chloride,

trichloroethylene, and cis 1,-

dichloroethylene. Contamination from

the site extends to bedrock and sand

seams located beneath the site to an

approximate depth of 95 feet.

Groundwater contamination (chiefly

trichloroethylene) has been detected in

private wells near the site. Residents in

the area now use municipal water. The

site has undergone remediation in the

form of installing treatment systems that

address groundwater, leachate, gas and

surface water runoff contamination. The

potential for continuing migration of

contaminants due to groundwater

movement is a public health concern

and is addressed with regular

monitoring of wells in the area of the

site.

The Omega Hills North Landfill is an

83-acre site that is part of a two-site

complex. The Omega Hills North

Landfill, which is now closed, operated

as a municipal and industrial waste

disposal site that was licensed to accept

hazardous waste from 1977 to 1982. One

of the largest landfills in the state, the

Omega Hills complex is located in the

extreme southeastern corner of

Washington County near metropolitan

Milwaukee. The site was proposed for

the NPL in September 1983. The listing

was finalized in September 21, 1984,

Federal Register number 49, volume

number 185 and page number 37070–

37090.

Soils at the site are generally fine

grained, but there are major sand layers

that extend vertically to the bedrock and

serve as recharge zones. An ineffective

leachate collection system and large

amounts of liquid waste allowed very

high leachate head levels to develop.

Wells in the area draw from the

underlying Niagara dolomite.

The sand and underlying dolomite

serve as conduits for contaminant

migration. Hydrogeologic investigations

conducted during 1981 through 1983

detected a groundwater divide that

exists within the bedrock aquifer along

the northwest side of the landfill. A

stream to the west of the site also

inhibits groundwater flow to the west.

After becoming saturated, layers of

sand that intersect the bottom and sides

of the landfill serve as conduits for

transmitting liquid wastes and leachate

to surrounding groundwater. Data from

monitoring wells around the landfill

indicates that groundwater is

contaminated. Some nearby wells rely

on the same aquifer for water.

A medical waste incinerator and a

methane gas power plant are located on

the site.

Remediation activities began at this

site in the early 1980’s and a significant

portion of the environmental cleanup

has been completed. All of this work

has been implemented under state solid

hazardous waste authority and it is

EPA’s intent to continue using existing

state environmental regulations to

require the on-going long-term care

activities such as environmental

monitoring, leachate extraction and

treatment, routine maintenance, as well

as additional remediation work as

necessary.

The majority of the cleanup has been

completed. Federal CERCLA authorities

have not been used to compel any

cleanup actions at this site. Instead,

cleanup activities at the site were

initiated using the State’s authority

under RCRA. The State will also require

long-term operation and maintenance of

the site using these RCRA authorities.

Any future cleanup activities will be

addressed using State RCRA authorities.

As a result, the site should be removed

from the NPL.

EPA, with concurrence from the State

of Wisconsin, has determined that all

appropriate Fund-financed responses

under CERCLA at the Omega Hills

North Landfill Superfund Site have

been completed, and no further

CERCLA response is appropriate in

order to provide protection of human

health and the environment. Therefore,

EPA proposes to delete the site from the

NPL.

Dated: June 11, 1996.

Valdas V. Adamkus,

Regional Administrator, U.S. EPA, Region V.

[FR Doc. 96–15882 Filed 6–24–96; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 6560–50–P

FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS

COMMISSION

47 CFR Chapter I

[DA 96–1007]

Implementation of the Local

Competition Provisions of 1996

Telecommunications Act

AGENCY: Federal Communications

Commission.

ACTION: Proposed rule; establishing

comment date.

SUMMARY: This document establishes an

additional Comment opportunity in CC

Docket 96–98 [61 FR 18311, April 25,

1996] in order to allow parties to that

proceeding to comment on a staffprepared working copy of an industry

demand and supply simulation model.

The model, using publicly-available,

industry-wide information, allows users

to simulate the relative impact of

particular changes in the industry.

DATES: Comments are due on or before

July 1, 1996. (No reply comments

allowed).

ADDRESSES: Federal Communications

Commission, 1919 M Street, N.W.,

20554.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Jim

Lande at (202) 418–0498 or Doron Fertig

at (202) 418–1869.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Supplemental Comment Period

Designated for Local Competition

Proceeding, CC Docket 96–98

[DA 96–1007; IAD 96–175]

Released June 20, 1996.

1. On June 17, 1996, the FCC’s

Industry Analysis Division, Common

Carrier Bureau, and the Competition

Division, Office of General Counsel,

released a staff model of the

telecommunications industry which

allows model users to calculate a variety

of outputs from nearly 200

specifications (News Release, ‘‘FCC Staff

Releases Working Copy of an Industry

Demand & Supply Simulation Model,’’

released June 17, 1996.) The model

allows the user to specify growth rates,

pricing trends, demand elasticities and

cost relationships to simulate effects in

traditional industry segments. The