[Federal Register Volume 83, Number 56 (Thursday, March 22, 2018)]
[Rules and Regulations]
[Pages 12501-12502]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2018-05752]


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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

40 CFR Part 300

[EPA-HQ-SFUND-1989-0011; FRL-9975-74-Region 9]


National Oil and Hazardous Substances Pollution Contingency Plan; 
National Priorities List: Partial Deletion of the Pacific Coast Pipe 
Lines Superfund Site

AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

ACTION: Final rule.

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SUMMARY: The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Region 9 announces 
the deletion of the surface soil portion of the Pacific Coast Pipe 
Lines (PCPL) Superfund Site (Site) located in Fillmore, California, 
from the National Priorities List (NPL). 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). This partial deletion pertains only to the 
surface soil at the Site. The groundwater will remain on the NPL and is 
not being considered for deletion as part of this action. EPA and the 
State of California, through the Department of Toxic Substances 
Control, have determined that all appropriate response actions under 
CERCLA, other than maintenance, monitoring and five-year reviews, have 
been completed. However, the deletion of the soil portion of the Site 
does not preclude future actions under Superfund.

DATES: This action is effective March 22, 2018.

ADDRESSES: EPA has established a docket for this action under Docket 
Identification No. EPA-HQ-SFUND-1989-0011. All documents in the docket 
are listed on the http://www.regulations.gov website. Although listed 
in the index, some information is not publicly available, i.e., 
Confidential Business Information and other information whose 
disclosure is restricted by statute. Certain other material, such as 
copyrighted material, is not placed on the internet and will be 
publicly available only in hard copy form. Publicly available docket 
materials are available either electronically through http://www.regulations.gov or in hard copy at the site information 
repositories. Locations, contacts, phone numbers and viewing hours are:
    Superfund Records Center, 75 Hawthorne Street, Room 3110, San 
Francisco, California, Hours: 8:00 a.m.[dash]4:00 p.m.; (415) 947-8717.
    Site Repository: Fillmore Library, 502 2nd Street, Fillmore, 
California. Call (805) 524-3355 for hours of operation.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Holly Hadlock, Remedial Project 
Manager, U.S. EPA, Region 9 (SFD-7-3), 75 Hawthorne Street, San 
Francisco, CA 94105, (415) 972-3171, email: [email protected].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The portion of the Site to be deleted from 
the NPL is the surface soils at the Pacific Coast Pipe Lines Superfund 
Site, Fillmore, California. A Notice of Intent for Partial Deletion for 
this Site was published in the Federal Register (82 FR 60943-60946) on 
December 26, 2017. The closing date for comments on the Notice of 
Intent for Partial Deletion was January 25, 2018.
    Eight public comments were received: Five supported EPA's decision 
to delete the surface soil from the NPL, two opposed, and one was not 
related to the proposed partial deletion. The commenters who opposed 
the action want the soil portion of the Site to remain on the NPL. EPA 
believes the partial deletion action is appropriate because the NPL 
deletion criterion established by the NCP has been met; the responsible 
party, Texaco, Inc., has implemented all appropriate response actions 
for surface soil set forth in the 2011 ROD Amendment, which selected 
the remedy for contaminated soils at the Site. Based on available data, 
EPA has determined that no further response action for soil at the Site 
is necessary. EPA will conduct five-year reviews to determine if the 
cleanup remains protective of human health and the environment. A 
responsiveness summary was prepared and placed in both the docket, EPA-
HQ-SFUND-1989-0011, on www.regulations.gov, and in the local 
repositories listed above.
    EPA maintains the NPL as the list of sites that appear to present a 
significant risk to public health, welfare, or the environment. 
Deletion of a site from the NPL does not preclude further remedial 
action at the site. Whenever there is a significant release from a site 
deleted from the NPL, the deleted site may be restored to the NPL 
without application of the hazard ranking system. Deletion

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of portions of a site from the NPL does not affect responsible party 
liability, in the unlikely event that future conditions warrant further 
actions.

List of Subjects in 40 CFR Part 300

    Environmental protection, Air pollution control, Chemicals, 
Hazardous waste, Hazardous substances, Intergovernmental relations, 
Penalties, Reporting and recordkeeping requirements, Superfund, Water 
pollution control, Water supply.

    Dated: March 12, 2018.
 Alexis Strauss,
Acting Regional Administrator.

    For reasons set out in the preamble, 40 CFR part 300 is amended as 
follows:

PART 300--NATIONAL OIL AND HAZARDOUS SUBSTANCES POLLUTION 
CONTINGENCY PLAN

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1. The authority citation for part 300 continues to read as follows:

    Authority:  33 U.S.C. 1321(d); 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.

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2. Table 1 of appendix B to part 300 is amended by revising the entry 
for ``Pacific Coast Pipe Lines'' to read as follows:

Appendix B to Part 300--National Priorities List



                                       Table 1--General Superfund Section
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                 State                            Site name                  City/County            Notes \a\
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CA.....................................  Pacific Coast Pipe Lines..  Fillmore..................               P
 
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\a\ = Based on issuance of health advisory by Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (if scored, HRS
  score need not be greater than or equal to 28.50).
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P = Sites with partial deletion(s).
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