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Federal Register/Vol. 66, No. 113/Tuesday, June 12 31582 Federal Register / Vol. 66, No. 113 / Tuesday, June 12, 2001 / Proposed Rules inundated or contaminated areas and Pollution Contingency Plan (NCP), 40 p.m., Monday–Friday. The telephone temporary loss of function. This upland CFR part 300, which EPA promulgated number is (215) 814–5254. portion included mitigation at a ratio of pursuant to section 105 of the FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 2:1 for the permanently inundated areas Comprehensive Environmental Lorie Baker, U.S. EPA, Region 3 in the East Marsh plus an additional 1:1 Response, Compensation, and Liability (3HS34), 1650 Arch Street, compensation for natural resource Act (CERCLA). This partial deletion for Philadelphia, PA 19103; PHONE: 215– damage agreed to in negotiations with the Tobyhanna Army Depot Site is 814–3355; FAX: 215–814–3001; EMAIL: the FDEP. proposed in accordance with 40 CFR [email protected] The Site’s post-soil treatment 300.425(e) and the Notice of Policy SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: groundwater was monitored on four Change: Partial Deletion of Sites Listed occasions, in order to determine on the National Priorities List. 60 FR whether the groundwater treatment 55466 (Nov. 1, 1995). Table of Contents component of the ROD would need to This proposal for partial deletion I. Introduction be implemented. These results indicated pertains to all portions of the II. NPL Deletion Criteria that further groundwater recovery and Tobyhanna Army Depot Site except for III. Deletion Procedures IV. Basis for Intended Partial Site Deletion treatment would not be necessary. contaminated groundwater plumes at Due to the treatment of contaminated Operable Units 1 and 5 (OU1 and OU5) I. Introduction soil and sediment, hazardous substances [Excluded Areas], which are undergoing The United States Environmental have been immobilized, allowing for natural attention and long-term Protection Agency (EPA) Region 3 unlimited use of part of the Site. monitoring. These Excluded Areas will announces its intent to delete a portion Excluded from unlimited use are the remain on the NPL until the of the Tobyhanna Army Depot Site, areas of the treated soil and the performance standards specified in the located in Monroe County, remediated wetlands, which are the Records of Decision are met. EPA bases Pennsylvania, from the National subject of a conservation easement. In its partial deletion proposal on the Priorities List (NPL), which constitutes order to confirm that the Site is determination by EPA, the Army, and Appendix B of the National Oil and protective of public health and the the Pennsylvania Department of Hazardous Substances Pollution environment, limited maintenance of Environmental Protection that all Contingency Plan (NCP), 40 CFR Part the solidified monolith will be required, appropriate actions under CERCLA have 300, and requests comments on this as well as Five Year Reviews. been completed to protect human proposal. This proposal for partial EPA, with concurrence of FDEP, has health, welfare and the environment. deletion pertains to all portions of the determined that all appropriate actions DATES: EPA will accept comments Tobyhanna Army Depot Site except for at the Schuylkill Metals Corporation concerning its proposal for partial contaminated groundwater plumes at Site have been completed, and no deletion for thirty (30) days after Operable Units 1 and 5 (OU1 and OU5) further remedial action is necessary. publication of this document in the [Excluded Areas], which are undergoing Therefore, EPA is proposing deletion of Federal Register and a local newspaper natural attenuation and long-term the Site from the NPL. of record (the Pocono Record). monitoring. These Excluded Areas will Dated: March 26, 2001. ADDRESSES: Comments may be mailed to remain on the NPL until the A. Stanley Meiburg, Lorie Baker, Superfund Site Manager, performance standards specified in the Acting Regional Administrator, Region 4. U.S. EPA, Region 3 (3HS34), 1650 Arch Records of Decision are met. EPA [FR Doc. 01–14470 Filed 6–11–01; 8:45 am] Street, Philadelphia, PA, 19103; proposes to delete the Tobyhanna Army BILLING CODE 6560–50–U PHONE: 215–814–3355; FAX: 215–814– Depot Site except for the Excluded 3001; EMAIL: Areas as defined above because all [email protected]. appropriate CERCLA response activities have been completed in those areas. ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION Information Repositories: The NPL is a list maintained by EPA AGENCY Comprehensive information on the of sites that EPA has determined present Tobyhanna Army Depot Site as well as 40 CFR Part 300 a significant risk to human health, the Deletion Docket is available for welfare, or the environment. Pursuant to [FRL–6964–5] review at the following two information 40 CFR 300.425(e) of the NCP, any site repository locations: National Oil and Hazardous or portion of a site deleted from the NPL Coolbaugh Township Municipal remains eligible for remedial actions if Substances Pollution Contingency Building, Route 611, Tobyhanna, PA Plan; National Priorities List conditions at the site warrant such 18466. The Coolbaugh Township office action. AGENCY: Environmental Protection hours are 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., Monday– EPA will accept comments Agency. Friday. The telephone number is (570) concerning its intent for partial deletion 984–8490. ACTION: Notice of intent for partial for thirty (30) days after publication of deletion of the Tobyhanna Army Depot Tobyhanna Army Depot, Public this notice in the Federal Register and Site from the National Priorities List. Affairs Office, 11 Hap Arnold a newspaper of record. Boulevard, Tobyhanna, PA 18466–5076. SUMMARY: The Environmental Protection The Public Affairs Office hours are 7:30 II. NPL Deletion Criteria Agency (EPA) Region 3 announces its a.m. to 4 p.m., Monday–Friday. The The NCP establishes the criteria that intent to delete a portion of the telephone number is (570) 895–6552. EPA uses to delete sites from the NPL. Tobyhanna Army Depot Site, located in The Deletion Docket is also available In accordance with 40 CFR 300.425(e), Monroe County, Pennsylvania, from the for review at the U.S. EPA Region 3 sites may be deleted from the NPL National Priorities List (NPL) and Regional Center for Environmental where no further response is requests public comment on this action. Information (RCEI), 1650 Arch Street appropriate to protect human health or The NPL constitutes Appendix B to the (3PM52), Philadelphia, PA 19103–2029. the environment. In making such a National Oil and Hazardous Substances The RCEI office hours are 8 a.m. to 5 determination pursuant to 40 CFR VerDate 11<MAY>2000 16:31 Jun 11, 2001 Jkt 194001 PO 00000 Frm 00017 Fmt 4702 Sfmt 4702 E:\FR\FM\12JNP1.SGM pfrm01 PsN: 12JNP1 Federal Register / Vol. 66, No. 113 / Tuesday, June 12, 2001 / Proposed Rules 31583 300.425(e), EPA will consider, in This Federal Register document, and beginning in 1913, and as an ambulance consultation with the State, whether any a concurrent notice in a newspaper of and tank regiment training center and of the following criteria have been met: record, announces the initiation of a an ordnance storage depot during World Section 300.425(e)(1)(i): Responsible thirty (30) day public comment period War I. Tobyhanna was inactive until parties or other persons have and the availability of the Notice of 1932, except for Army and National implemented all appropriate response Intent for Partial Deletion. The public is Guard Field Artillery training. From actions required; or Section asked to comment on EPA’s proposal to 1932 to 1938, Tobyhanna was a 300.425(e)(1)(ii): All appropriate Fund- delete a portion of the Tobyhanna Army Conservation Corps camp area, and from financed response under CERCLA has Depot site from the NPL. All critical 1938 to 1941, Tobyhanna, was used by been implemented, and no further documents needed to evaluate EPA’s West Point cadets for field artillery response action by responsible parties is decision are included in the Deletion training. In 1942, Tobyhanna was appropriate; or Section Docket and are available for review at reactivated and converted for storage 300.425(e)(1)(iii): The remedial the aforementioned information and supply uses. Tobyhanna artillery investigation has shown that the release repositories. ranges were deactivated in 1946. In poses no significant threat to human Upon completion of the thirty (30) 1949, the Commonwealth of health or the environment and, day public comment period, EPA will Pennsylvania purchased approximately therefore, taking of remedial measures is evaluate all comments received before 21,000 acres from the United States, and not appropriate. issuing the final decision on the partial in 1952, approximately 1,293 acres were Deletion of a portion of a site from the deletion. EPA will prepare a deeded back to the United States NPL does not preclude eligibility for Responsiveness Summary for comments government for the modern depot subsequent Fund-financed actions at the received during the public comment construction in 1953. Tobyhanna is area deleted if future site conditions period and will address concerns currently a communication-electronics warrant such actions. Section presented in the comments. The maintenance and supply depot. On 300.425(e)(3) of the NCP provides that Responsiveness Summary will be made August 30, 1990 (55 FR 35502), Fund-financed actions may be taken at available to the public at the Tobyhanna was added to the National sites that have been deleted from the information repositories listed Priorities List due to the discovery of NPL. A partial deletion of a site from the previously. Members of the public are groundwater contaminated with NPL does not affect or impede EPA’s encouraged to contact EPA Region 3 to elevated levels of volatile organic ability to conduct CERCLA response obtain a copy of the Responsiveness compounds. The contaminated activities at areas not deleted and Summary.
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