Federal Register/Vol. 63, No. 225/Monday, November 23,1998
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64806 Federal Register / Vol. 63, No. 225 / Monday, November 23, 1998 / Notices ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION DATES: This list is current as of February under the provisions listed in section AGENCY 1, 1998. 120(c) of CERCLA; and (3) to provide a FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT mechanism to make the information [FRL 6183±3] : Toll-Free Telephone Line for the available to the public. Federal Agency Hazardous Waste Docket, Telephone: (800) 548±1016, or The initial list of Federal facilities to Compliance Docket locally (703) 287±8868. Electronic be included on the docket was versions of the docket may be obtained published on February 12, 1988 (53 FR AGENCY: Environmental Protection at http://www.epa.gov/oeca/fedfac/ 4280). Updates of the docket have been Agency. oversight/oversight.html. published on November 16, 1988 (54 FR ACTION: Notice of eleventh update of the SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 46364); December 15, 1989 (54 FR Federal Agency Hazardous Waste Table of Contents 51472); August 22, 1990 (55 FR 34492); Compliance Docket, pursuant to September 27, 1991 (56 FR 49328); CERCLA section 120(c). 1.0 Introduction 2.0 Revisions of the Previous Docket December 12, 1991 (56 FR 64898); July 17, 1992 (57 FR 31758); February 5, SUMMARY: Section 120(c) of the 3.0 Process for Compiling the Updated Comprehensive Environmental Docket 1993 (58 FR 7298); November 10, 1993 Response, Compensation, and Liability 4.0 Facilities Not Included (58 FR 59790); April 11, 1995 (60 FR 5.0 Information Contained on Docket 18474); and June 27, 1997 (62 FR Act of 1980 (CERCLA), as amended by Listing the Superfund Amendments and 34779). This notice constitutes the Reauthorization Act of 1986 (SARA), 1.0 Introduction eleventh update of the docket. Today's notice is divided into three requires the Environmental Protection Section 120(c) of the Comprehensive sections: (1) Additions, (2) deletions, Agency (EPA) to establish a Federal Environmental Response, and (3) corrections. The additions Agency Hazardous Waste Compliance Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980 section lists newly identified facilities Docket. The docket is to contain certain (CERCLA), 42 United States Code that have been reported to EPA since the information about Federal facilities that (U.S.C.) § 9620(c), as amended by the manage hazardous waste or from which Superfund Amendments and last update and that now are being hazardous substances have been or may Reauthorization Act of 1986 (SARA), included on the docket. The deletions be released. (As defined by CERCLA required the establishment of the section lists facilities that EPA is section 101(22), a release is any spilling, Federal Agency Hazardous Waste deleting from the docket. The leaking, pumping, pouring, emitting, Compliance Docket. The docket corrections section lists changes in emptying, discharging, injecting, contains information on Federal information about facilities already escaping, leaching, dumping, or facilities that is submitted by Federal listed on the docket. disposing into the environment.) agencies to the U.S. Environmental The information submitted to EPA on CERCLA requires that the docket be Protection Agency (EPA) under sections each Federal facility is maintained in updated every six months, as new 3005, 3010, and 3016 of the Resource the docket repository located in the EPA facilities are reported to EPA by Federal Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA), Regional office of the Region in which agencies. The following list identifies 42 U.S.C. § 6925, § 6930, and § 6937, the facility is located (see 53 FR 4280 the Federal facilities to be included in and under section 103 of CERCLA, 42 [February 12, 1988] for a description of this eleventh update of the docket and U.S.C. § 9603. Specifically, RCRA the information required under those includes facilities not previously listed section 3005 establishes a permitting provisions). Each repository contains on the docket and reported to EPA since system for certain hazardous waste the documents submitted to EPA under the last update of the docket, published treatment, storage, and disposal (TSD) the reporting provisions and in the Federal Register (FR) on June 27, facilities; RCRA section 3010 requires correspondence relevant to the reporting 1997 at 62 FR 34779, which was current waste generators and transporters and provisions for each facility. Contact the as of October 1, 1996. EPA policy TSD facilities to notify EPA of their toll-free telephone line for the docket at specifies that, for each Federal facility hazardous waste activities; and RCRA (800) 548±1016, or locally (703) 287± that is included on the docket during an section 3016 requires Federal agencies 8868, for information on locations of update, the responsible Federal agency to submit biennially to EPA an Regional docket repositories. must complete a preliminary assessment inventory of hazardous waste sites that 2.0 Revisions of the Previous Docket (PA) and, if warranted, a site inspection the Federal agencies own or operate. (SI) within 18 months of publication of CERCLA section 103(a) requires that the Following is a discussion of the the notice. Such site evaluation National Response Center (NRC) be revisions of the previous docket, activities will help determine whether notified of a release. CERCLA section including additions, deletions, and the facility should be included on the 103(c) requires reporting to EPA the corrections. National Priorities List (NPL) and will existence of a facility at which 2.1 Additions provide EPA and the public with hazardous substances are or have been valuable information about the facility. stored, treated, or disposed of and the Today, 89 facilities are being added to In addition to the list of additions to the existence of known or suspected the docket, primarily because of new docket, this notice includes a section releases of hazardous substances at such information obtained by EPA (for that comprises revisions (that is, facilities. example, recent reporting of a facility corrections and deletions) of the The docket serves three major pursuant to RCRA sections 3005, 3010, previous docket list. This update purposes: (1) To identify all Federal or 3016 or CERCLA section 103). For all contains 89 additions and 11 deletions facilities that must be evaluated to facilities being added to the docket, it is since the previous update, as well as determine whether they pose a risk to EPA's policy that the responsible numerous other corrections to the human health and the environment Federal agency must complete the docket list. At the time of publication of sufficient to warrant inclusion on the required preliminary assessment (PA) this notice, the new total number of National Priorities List (NPL); (2) to and, if warranted, a site inspection (SI) Federal facilities listed on the docket is compile and maintain the information within 18 months of the date of this 2,182. submitted to EPA on such facilities publication. Federal Register / Vol. 63, No. 225 / Monday, November 23, 1998 / Notices 64807 Of the 89 facilities being added to the reports under Federal agency facility. In addition, some changes in docket, 3 are facilities that have environmental restoration programs the names of facilities were made to reported to the NRC the release of a mentioned above contain information establish consistency in the docket. reportable quantity (RQ) of a hazardous similar to that provided pursuant to Many new entries are simply substance. Under section 103(a) of CERCLA section 103 and are considered corrections of typographical errors. For CERCLA, a facility is required to report equivalent forms of notification for the each facility for which a correction has to the NRC the release of a hazardous docket. Thus, EPA believes that a been entered, the original entry substance in a quantity that equals or facility that has provided information (designated by an ``O''), as it appeared exceeds the established RQ. Reports of equivalent to a CERCLA section 103 in the February 12, 1988 notice or releases received by the NRC, the U.S. notification, such as a report under a subsequent updates, is shown directly Coast Guard (USCG), and EPA are Federal agency environmental below the corrected entry (designated by transmitted electronically to the restoration program, should be included a ``C'') for easy comparison. Transportation Systems Center at the on the docket, regardless of the absence 3.0 Process for Compiling the Updated U.S. Department of Transportation of formal notification under CERCLA Docket (DOT), where they become part of the section 103. Therefore, some of the Emergency Response Notification facilities that EPA is adding today are In compiling the newly reported System (ERNS) database. ERNS is a being placed on the docket because they facilities for the update being published national computer database and have submitted the reports described today, EPA extracted the names, retrieval system that stores information above. addresses, and identification numbers of on releases of oil and hazardous EPA also includes privately owned, facilities from four EPA databasesÐ substances. Facilities being added to the government-operated (POGO) facilities ERNS, the Biennial Inventory of Federal docket and facilities already listed on on the docket. CERCLA section 120(c) Agency Hazardous Waste Activities, the the docket for which an ERNS report requires that the docket contain Resource Conservation and Recovery has been filed are identified by the information submitted under RCRA Information System