[Federal Register Volume 85, Number 122 (Wednesday, June 24, 2020)]
[Proposed Rules]
[Pages 37808-37809]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2020-13301]
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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
40 CFR Part 300
[EPA-HQ-SFUND-1983-0002; FRL-10010-66-Region 5]
National Oil and Hazardous Substances Pollution Contingency Plan;
National Priorities List: Partial Deletion of the Allied Chemical &
Ironton Coke Superfund Site
AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
ACTION: Proposed rule; notification of intent.
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SUMMARY: The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Region 5 is issuing
a Notice of Intent to Delete soil (land), lagoon, and sediment portions
of the Allied Chemical & Ironton Coke Superfund Site (Site) in Ironton,
Ohio, from the National Priorities List (NPL) and requests public
comments on this proposed action. The NPL, promulgated pursuant to
Section 105 of the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation,
and Liability Act (CERCLA) of 1980, as amended, is an appendix of the
National Oil and Hazardous Substances Pollution Contingency Plan (NCP).
The EPA and the State of Ohio, through the Ohio Environmental
Protection Agency (OEPA), have determined that all appropriate response
actions identified for these Site media, other than operation and
maintenance, monitoring, and five-year reviews, have been completed.
However, this deletion does not preclude future actions under
Superfund.
DATES: Comments must be received by July 24, 2020.
ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, identified by Docket ID No. EPA-HQ-
SFUND-1983-0002, by one of the following methods:
https://www.regulations.gov. Follow the on-line instructions for
submitting comments. Once submitted, comments cannot be edited or
removed from Regulations.gov. EPA may publish any comment received to
its public docket. Do not submit electronically any information you
consider to be Confidential Business Information (CBI) or other
information whose disclosure is
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restricted by statute. Multimedia submissions (audio, video, etc.) must
be accompanied by a written comment. The written comment is considered
the official comment and should include discussion of all points you
wish to make. EPA will generally not consider comments or comment
contents located outside of the primary submission (i.e., on the web,
cloud, or other file sharing system). For additional submission
methods, the full EPA public comment policy, information about CBI or
multimedia submissions, and general guidance on making effective
comments, please visit https://www.epa.gov/dockets/commenting-epa-dockets.
Email: Deletions@usepa.onmicrosoft.com.
Written comments submitted by mail are temporarily suspended and no
hand deliveries will be accepted. We encourage the public to submit
comments via email or at https://www.regulations.gov.
Instructions: Direct your comments to Docket ID No. EPA-HQ-SFUND-
1983-0002. EPA's policy is that all comments received will be included
in the public docket without change and may be made available online at
https://www.regulations.gov, including any personal information
provided, unless the comment includes information claimed to be
Confidential Business Information (CBI) or other information whose
disclosure is restricted by statute. Do not submit information that you
consider to be CBI or otherwise protected through https://www.regulations.gov or email. The https://www.regulations.gov website
is an ``anonymous access'' system, which means EPA will not know your
identity or contact information unless you provide it in the body of
your comment. If you send an email comment directly to EPA without
going through https://www.regulations.gov, your email address will be
automatically captured and included as part of the comment that is
placed in the public docket and made available on the internet. If you
submit an electronic comment, EPA recommends that you include your name
and other contact information in the body of your comment and with any
disk or CD-ROM you submit. If EPA cannot read your comment due to
technical difficulties and cannot contact you for clarification, EPA
may not be able to consider your comment. Electronic files should avoid
the use of special characters, any form of encryption, and be free of
any defects or viruses.
Docket: All documents in the docket are listed in the https://www.regulations.gov index. Although listed in the index, some
information is not publicly available, e.g., CBI or other information
whose disclosure is restricted by statute. Certain other material, such
as copyrighted material, will be publicly available only in hard copy.
Publicly available docket materials are available electronically at
https://www.regulations.gov and at https://www.epa.gov/superfund/allied-chemical-ironton or you may contact the person identified in the
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT section for additional availability
information.
The EPA is temporarily suspending its Docket Center and Regional
Records Centers for public visitors to reduce the risk of transmitting
COVID-19. In addition, many site information repositories are closed
and information in these repositories, including the deletion docket,
has not been updated with hardcopy or electronic media. For further
information and updates on EPA Docket Center services, please visit us
online at https://www.epa.gov/dockets.
The EPA continues to carefully and continuously monitor information
from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), local area
health departments, and our Federal partners so that we can respond
rapidly as conditions change regarding COVID-19.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Karen Cibulskis, NPL Deletions
Coordinator, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Region 5, at (312)
886-1843 or via email at cibulskis.karen@epa.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This partial deletion pertains to the soil
(land) portion of the Goldcamp Disposal Area (Operable Unit 1, or OU1);
the soil (land) and lagoon portion of the Coke Plant/Lagoon Area (OU2),
except for the OU2 ROD Soils Area 2 located within the bermed area of
the East Tank Farm (see Figure 3 in the Docket); and all of the Tar
Plant area (OU3), which addresses contaminated soil and sediment at the
Tar Plant and in the adjacent Ohio River.
The OU2 ROD Soils Area 2 located within the bermed area of the East
Tank Farm contains components of the groundwater treatment system and
will not be remediated until after the groundwater cleanup is complete.
Therefore, the OU2 ROD Soils Area 2 is not being considered for
deletion as part of this action. The contaminated groundwater at the
Site, which is present below all three OUs but is being addressed as
part of the OU1 and OU2 cleanup remedies, is undergoing a long-term
cleanup and is also not being considered for deletion as part of this
action. The OU2 ROD Soils Area 2 and the groundwater portions of the
Allied Chemical Site (i.e., the groundwater portion of OU1 and OU2,
which includes the contaminated groundwater below OU3) will remain on
the NPL.
In the ``Rules and Regulations'' section of today's Federal
Register, we are publishing a direct final Notice of Partial Deletion
of the Allied Chemical & Ironton Coke Superfund Site without prior
Notice of Intent for Partial Deletion because EPA views this as a
noncontroversial revision and anticipates no adverse comment. We have
explained our reasons for this deletion in the preamble to the direct
final Notice of Partial Deletion, and those reasons are incorporated
herein. If we receive no adverse comment(s) on this partial deletion
action, we will not take further action on this Notice of Intent for
Partial Deletion. If we receive adverse comment(s), we will withdraw
the direct final Notice of Partial Deletion, and it will not take
effect. We will, as appropriate, address all public comments in a
subsequent final Notice of Partial Deletion based on this Notice of
Intent for Partial Deletion. We will not institute a second comment
period on this Notice of Intent for Partial Deletion. Any parties
interested in commenting must do so at this time.
For additional information, see the direct final Notice of Partial
Deletion which is located in the ``Rules and Regulations'' section of
this Federal Register.
List of Subjects in 40 CFR Part 300
Environmental protection, Air pollution control, Chemicals,
Hazardous substances, Hazardous waste, Intergovernmental relations,
Penalties, Reporting and recordkeeping requirements, Superfund, Water
pollution control, Water supply.
Authority: 33 U.S.C. 1251 et seq.; 42 U.S.C. 9601-9657; E.O.
13626, 77 FR 56749, 3 CFR, 2013 Comp., p. 306; E.O. 12777, 56 FR
54757, 3 CFR, 1991 Comp., p. 351; E.O. 12580, 52 FR 2923, 3 CFR,
1987 Comp., p. 193.
Dated: June 11, 2020.
Kurt Thiede,
Regional Administrator, Region 5.
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