Forty-Sixth Update of the Federal Agency Hazardous Waste Compliance Docket

<NOTICE> ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY <DEPDOC>[FRL-12284-01-OLEM]</DEPDOC> <SUBJECT>Forty-Sixth Update of the Federal Agency Hazardous Waste Compliance Docket</SUBJECT> <HD SOURCE="HED">AGENCY:</HD> Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). <HD SOURCE="HED">ACTION:</HD> Notice. <SUM> <HD SOURCE="HED">SUMMARY:</HD> Since 1988, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has maintained a Federal Agency Hazardous Waste Compliance Docket (“Docket”) under the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA). CERCLA requires EPA to establish a Docket that contains certain information reported to EPA by Federal facilities that manage hazardous waste or from which a reportable quantity of hazardous substances has been released. This notice identifies the Federal facilities not previously listed on the Docket and identifies Federal facilities reported to EPA since the last update on April 22, 2024. In addition to the list of additions to the Docket, this notice includes a section with revisions of the previous Docket list and a section of Federal facilities that are to be deleted from the Docket. Thus, the revisions in this update include three additions, two deletions, and zero corrections to the Docket since the previous update. </SUM> <DATES> <HD SOURCE="HED">DATES:</HD> This list is current as of September 26, 2024. </DATES> <FURINF> <HD SOURCE="HED">FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:</HD> Electronic versions of the Docket and more information on its implementation can be obtained at <E T="03">http://www.epa.gov/fedfac/federal-agency-hazardous-waste-compliance-docket</E> by clicking on the link for <E T="03">Cleanups at Federal Facilities</E> or by contacting Jonathan Tso [ <E T="03">Tso.Jonathan@epa.gov, (202) 564-0410</E> ], Federal Agency Hazardous Waste Compliance Docket Coordinator, Federal Facilities Restoration and Reuse Office. Additional information on the Docket and a complete list of Docket sites can be obtained at: <E T="03">https://www.epa.gov/fedfac/federal-agency-hazardous-waste-compliance-docket-1.</E> </FURINF> <SUPLINF> <HD SOURCE="HED">SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:</HD> <HD SOURCE="HD1">Table of Contents </HD> <EXTRACT> <FP SOURCE="FP-2">1.0 Introduction</FP> <FP SOURCE="FP-2">2.0 Regional Docket Coordinators</FP> <FP SOURCE="FP-2">3.0 Revisions of the Previous Docket</FP> <FP SOURCE="FP-2">4.0 Process for Compiling the Updated Docket</FP> <FP SOURCE="FP-2">5.0 Facilities Not Included</FP> <FP SOURCE="FP-2">6.0 Facility NPL Status Reporting, Including NFRAP Status</FP> <FP SOURCE="FP-2">7.0 Information Contained on Docket Listing</FP> </EXTRACT> <HD SOURCE="HD1">1.0 Introduction</HD> Section 120(c) of CERCLA, 42 U.S.C. 9620(c), as amended by the Superfund Amendments and Reauthorization Act of 1986 (SARA), requires EPA to establish the Federal Agency Hazardous Waste Compliance Docket. The Docket contains information on Federal facilities that manage hazardous waste and such information is submitted by Federal agencies to EPA under sections 3005, 3010, and 3016 of the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA), 42 U.S.C. 6925, 6930, and 6937. Additionally, the Docket contains information on Federal facilities with a reportable quantity of hazardous substances that has been released and such information is submitted by Federal agencies to EPA under section 103 of CERCLA, 42 U.S.C. 9603. Specifically, RCRA section 3005 establishes a permitting system for certain hazardous waste treatment, storage, and disposal (TSD) facilities; RCRA section 3010 requires waste generators, transporters and TSD facilities to notify EPA of their hazardous waste activities; and RCRA section 3016 requires Federal agencies to submit biennially to EPA an inventory of their Federal hazardous waste facilities. CERCLA section 103(a) requires the owner or operator of a vessel or onshore or offshore facility to notify the National Response Center (NRC) of any spill or other release of a hazardous substance that equals or exceeds a reportable quantity (RQ), as defined by CERCLA section 101. Additionally, CERCLA section 103(c) requires facilities that have “stored, treated, or disposed of” hazardous wastes and where there is “known, suspected, or likely releases” of hazardous substances to report their activities to EPA. CERCLA section 120(d) requires EPA to take steps to assure that a Preliminary Assessment (PA) be completed for those sites identified in the Docket and that the evaluation and listing of sites with a PA be completed within a reasonable time frame. The PA is designed to provide information for EPA to consider when evaluating the site for potential response action or inclusion on the National Priorities List (NPL). The Docket serves three major purposes: (1) to identify all Federal facilities that must be evaluated to determine whether they pose a threat to human health and the environment sufficient to warrant inclusion on the National Priorities List (NPL); (2) to compile and maintain the information submitted to EPA on such facilities under the provisions listed in section 120(c) of CERCLA; and (3) to provide a mechanism to make the information available to the public. Previous Docket updates are available at <E T="03">https://www.epa.gov/fedfac/previous-federal-agency-hazardous-waste-compliance-docket-updates.</E> This notice provides some background information on the Docket. Additional information on the Docket requirements and implementation are found in the Docket Reference Manual, Federal Agency Hazardous Waste Compliance Docket found at <E T="03">http://www.epa.gov/fedfac/docket-reference-manual-federal-agency-hazardous-waste-compliance-docket-interim-final</E> or obtained by calling the Regional Docket Coordinators listed below. This notice also provides changes to the list of sites included on the Docket in three areas: (1) Additions, (2) Deletions, and (3) Corrections. Specifically, additions are newly identified Federal facilities that have been reported to EPA since the last update and now are included on the Docket; the deletions section lists Federal facilities that EPA is deleting from the Docket. <SU>1</SU> <FTREF/> The information submitted to EPA on each Federal facility is maintained in the Docket repository located in the EPA Regional office of the Region in which the Federal facility is located; for a description of the information required under those provisions, <E T="03">see</E> 53 FR 4280 (February 12, 1988). Each repository contains the documents submitted to EPA under the reporting provisions and correspondence relevant to the reporting provisions for each Federal facility. <FTNT> <SU>1</SU>  See Section 3.2 for the criteria for being deleted from the Docket. </FTNT> In prior updates, information was also provided regarding No Further Remedial Action Planned (NFRAP) status changes. However, information on NFRAP and NPL status is no longer being provided separately in the Docket update as it is now available at: <E T="03">http://www.epa.gov/fedfacts/federal-facility-cleanup-sites-searchable-list</E> or by contacting the EPA HQ Docket Coordinator at the address provided in the <E T="02">FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT</E> section of this notice. <HD SOURCE="HD1">2.0 Regional Docket Coordinators</HD> Contact the following Docket Coordinators for information on Regional Docket repositories: • <E T="03">US EPA Region 1.</E> Mandy Liao (HBS), 5 Post Office Square, Suite 100, Mail Code: 01-5, Boston, MA 02109-3912, (617) 918-1036. • <E T="03">US EPA Region 2.</E> James Desir, 290 Broadway, New York, NY 10007-1866, (212) 637-4342. • <E T="03">US EPA Region 3.</E> Connor O'Loughlin (3HS12), 1650 Arch Street, Philadelphia, PA 19107, (215) 814-3304. • <E T="03">US EPA Region 4.</E> Emily Jones (9T25), 61 Forsyth St. SW, Atlanta, GA 30303, (404) 562-8334. • <E T="03">US EPA Region 5.</E> David Brauner (SR-6J), 77 W. Jackson Blvd., Chicago, IL 60604, (312) 886-1526. • <E T="03">US EPA Region 6.</E> Philip Ofosu (6SF-RA), 1445 Ross Avenue, Dallas, TX 75202-2733, (214) 665-3178. • <E T="03">US EPA Region 7.</E> Matthew Smith (SUPRERSB), 11201 Renner Blvd., Lenexa, KS 66219, (913) 551-7527. • <E T="03">US EPA Region 8.</E> Ryan Dunham (EPR-F), 1595 Wynkoop Street, Denver, CO 80202, (303) 312-6627. • <E T="03">US EPA Region 9.</E> Ashley Mrzljak (SFD-6-1), 600 Wilshire Boulevard, Suite 940, Los Angeles, CA 90017, (213) 244-1839. • <E T="03">US EPA Region 10.</E> Jeffree Fetters, 1200 Sixth Avenue, Seattle, WA 98101, (206) 553-1583. <HD SOURCE="HD1">3.0 Revisions of the Previous Docket</HD> This section includes a discussion of the additions, deletions and corrections to the list of Docket facilities since the previous Docket update. <HD SOURCE="HD2">3.1 Additions</HD> These Federal facilities are being added primarily because of new information obtained by EPA (for example, recent reporting of a facility pursuant to RCRA sections 3005, 3010, or 3016 or CERCLA section 103). CERCLA section 120, as amended by the Defense Authorization Act of 1997, specifies that EPA take steps to assure that a Preliminary Assessment (PA) be completed within a reasonable time frame for those Federal facilities that are included on the Docket. Among other things, the PA is designed to provide information for EPA to consider when evaluating the site for potential response action or listing on the NPL. This notice includes three additions. <HD SOURCE="HD2">3.2 Deletions</HD> There are no statutory or regulatory provisions that address deletion of a facility from the Docket. However, if a facility is incorrectly included on the Docket, it may be deleted from the Docket. The criteria EPA uses in deleting sites from the Docket include: a facility for which there was an incorrect report submitted ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Preview showing 10k of 23k characters. 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