Federal Register / Vol. 62, No. 124 / Friday, June 27, 1997 / Notices
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34780 Federal Register / Vol. 62, No. 124 / Friday, June 27, 1997 / Notices ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION other corrections to the docket list. At determine whether they pose a risk to AGENCY the time of publication of this notice, human health and the environment the new total number of Federal sufficient to warrant inclusion on the [FRL±5845±X] facilities listed on the docket is 2,104 National Priorities List (NPL); (2) to Federal Agency Hazardous Waste DATES: This list is current as of October compile and maintain the information Compliance Docket 1, 1996. submitted to EPA on such facilities FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: under the provisions listed in section AGENCY: Environmental Protection Toll-Free Telephone Line for the 120(c) of CERCLA; and (3) to provide a Agency. Docket, Telephone: (800) 548±1016, or mechanism to make the information ACTION: Notice of tenth update of the locally (703) 883±8577. Electronic available to the public. Federal Agency Hazardous Waste versions of the docket may be obtained The initial list of Federal facilities to Compliance Docket, pursuant to from Enviro$en$e/FFLEX (Federal be included on the docket was CERCLA section 120(c). Facilities Environmental Leadership published on February 12, 1988 (53 FR SUMMARY: Section 120(c) of the Exchange)@http://es.inel.gov/oeca/ [F.R.] 4280). Updates of the docket have Comprehensive Environmental fedfac/fflex.html been published on November 16, 1988 Response, Compensation, and Liability SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: (54 FR 46364); December 15, 1989 (54 Act of 1980 (CERCLA), as amended by FR 51472); August 22, 1990 (55 FR Table of Contents the Superfund Amendments and 34492); September 27, 1991 (56 FR Reauthorization Act of 1986 (SARA), 1. Introduction 49328); December 12, 1991 (56 FR requires the Environmental Protection 2. Revisions to the Previous Docket 3. Process for Compiling the Updated Docket 64898); July 17, 1992 (57 FR 31758); Agency (EPA) to establish a Federal 4. Facilities Not Included February 5, 1993 (58 FR 7298); and Agency Hazardous Waste Compliance 5. Information Contained on Docket Listing November 10, 1993 (58 FR 59790); and Docket. The docket is to contain certain 6. Facility Status Reporting April 11, 1995 (60 FR 18474). This information about Federal facilities that notice constitutes the tenth update of 1. Introduction manage hazardous waste or from which the docket. hazardous substances have been or may Section 120(c) of the Comprehensive Today's notice is divided into four be released. (As defined by CERCLA Environmental Response, sections: (1) Additions, (2) deletions, (3) section 101(22), a release is any spilling, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980 corrections, and (4) a list of facilities leaking, pumping, pouring, emitting, (CERCLA), 42 United States Code classified as no further remedial action emptying, discharging, injecting, (U.S.C.) 9620(c), as amended by the planned (NFRAP). The additions section escaping, leaching, dumping, or Superfund Amendments and lists newly identified facilities that have disposing into the environment.) Reauthorization Act of 1986 (SARA), been reported to EPA since the last CERCLA requires that the docket be required the establishment of the update and that now are being included updated every six months, as new Federal Agency Hazardous Waste facilities are reported to EPA by Federal Compliance Docket. The docket on the docket. The deletions section agencies. The following list identifies contains information on Federal lists facilities that EPA is deleting from the Federal facilities to be included in facilities that is submitted by Federal the docket. The corrections section lists this tenth update of the docket and agencies to the U.S. Environmental changes in information about facilities includes facilities not previously listed Protection Agency (EPA) under sections already listed on the docket. The on the docket and reported to EPA since 3005, 3010, and 3016 of the Resource NFRAP list is the list of all docket the last update of the docket, 60 FR Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA), facilities to which EPA has assigned a [F.R.] 18474, April 11,1995, (which was 42 U.S.C. 6925, 6930, and 6937 and status of no further remedial action current as of September 10, 1994). EPA under section 103 of CERCLA, 42 U.S.C. planned. policy specifies that, for each Federal 9603. Specifically, RCRA section 3005 The information submitted to EPA on facility that is included on the docket establishes a permitting system for each Federal facility is maintained in during an update, the responsible certain hazardous waste treatment, the docket repository located in the EPA Federal agency must complete a storage, and disposal (TSD) facilities; Regional office of the Region in which preliminary assessment (PA) and, if RCRA section 3010 requires waste the facility is located (see 53 FR 4280 warranted, a site inspection (SI) within generators and transporters and TSD [February 12, 1988] for a description of 18 months of publication of the notice. facilities to notify EPA of their the information required under those Such site evaluation activities will help hazardous waste activities; and RCRA provisions). Each repository contains determine whether the facility should section 3016 requires Federal agencies the documents submitted to EPA under be included on the National Priorities to submit biennially to EPA an the reporting provisions and List (NPL) and will provide EPA and the inventory of hazardous waste sites that correspondence relevant to the reporting public with valuable information about the Federal agencies own or operate. provisions for each facility. A complete the facility. In addition to the list of CERCLA section 103(a) requires that the national index of the information found additions to the docket, this notice National Response Center (NRC) be in the Regional docket repositories is includes a section that comprises notified of a release. CERCLA section maintained at EPA's Federal Facilities revisions (that is, corrections and 103(c) requires reporting to EPA the Enforcement Office in Washington, D.C. deletions) of the previous docket list existence of a facility at which and is available to the public. The index and a list of the facilities on the docket hazardous substances are or have been for each Region is available for public that have been evaluated and stored, treated, or disposed of and the review at each Regional repository. determined to be not appropriate for existence of known or suspected Contact the toll-free telephone line for listing on the NPL at this time (the no releases of hazardous substances at such the docket at (800) 548±1016, or locally further remedial action planned facilities. (703) 883±8577, for information on [NFRAP] list). This update contains 102 The docket serves three major locations of Regional repositories and additions and 69 deletions since the purposes: (1) To identify all Federal on making arrangements to obtain previous update, as well as numerous facilities that must be evaluated to specific documents. Federal Register / Vol. 62, No. 124 / Friday, June 27, 1997 / Notices 34781 2. Revisions to the Previous Docket that had not been listed on the docket be deemed to have jurisdiction, custody, Following is a discussion of the but that have reported releases or or control over a facility. hazardous waste activities to EPA under revisions to the previous docket, 2.2 Deletions including additions, deletions, and another reporting provision. In the process of compiling the Today, 69 facilities are being deleted corrections. documents for the Regional repositories, from the docket for various reasons, 2.1 Additions EPA identified a number of facilities such as incorrect reporting of hazardous waste activity, change in ownership, Today, 102 facilities are being added that had previously submitted PA and exemption as an SQG under RCRA to the docket, primarily because of new reports, SI reports, Department of (40 Code of Federal Regulations [CFR] information obtained by EPA (for Defense (DoD) Installation Restoration part 262.44). Facilities being deleted no example, recent reporting of a facility Program (IRP) reports, or reports under longer will be subject to the pursuant to RCRA sections 3005, 3010, another Federal agency environmental requirements of CERCLA section 120(d). or 3016 or CERCLA section 103). For all restoration program, but had not facilities being added to the docket, it is submitted a notification form under 2.3 Corrections CERCLA section 103. Section 120(c)(3) EPA's policy that the responsible of CERCLA requires that EPA include Changes necessary to correct the Federal agency must complete the on the docket information submitted previous docket were identified by both required preliminary assessment (PA) under section 103. In general, section EPA and Federal agencies. The changes and, if warranted, a site inspection (SI) 103 requires persons in charge of a needed varied from simple changes in within 18 months of the date of this vessel or facility to provide notice of addresses or spelling to corrections of publication. certain releases of hazardous the recorded name and ownership of a Of the 102 facilities being added to substances. The reports under Federal facility. In addition, some changes in the docket, 4 are facilities that have agency environmental restoration the names of facilities were made to reported to the NRC the release of a programs mentioned above contain establish consistency in the docket. reportable quantity (RQ) of a hazardous information similar to that provided Many new entries are simply substance. Under section 103(a) of pursuant to CERCLA section 103 and corrections of typographical errors. For CERCLA, a facility is required to report are considered equivalent forms of each facility for which a correction has to the NRC the release of a hazardous notification for the docket. Thus, EPA been entered, the original entry substance in a quantity that equals or believes that a facility that has provided (designated by an ``O''), as it appeared exceeds the established RQ.