Federal Agency Hazardous Waste Compliance Docket

Section 120(c) of the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980 (CERCLA), as amended by the Superfund Amendments and Reauthorization Act of 1986 (SARA), requires the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to establish a Federal Agency Hazardous Waste Compliance Docket. The docket is to contain certain information about Federal facilities that manage hazardous waste or from which hazardous substances have been or may be released. (As defined by CERCLA section 101(22), a release is any spilling, leaking, pumping, pouring, emitting, emptying, discharging, injecting, escaping, leaching, dumping, or disposing into the environment.) CERCLA requires that the docket be updated every six months, as new facilities are reported to EPA by Federal agencies. The following list identifies the Federal facilities to be included in the ninth update of the docket (that is, facilities not previously listed on the docket and reported to EPA since the last update of the docket, 58 Federal Register [F.R.] 59790, November 10, 1993, which was current as of July 16, 1993). EPA policy specifies that, for each Federal facility that is included on the docket during an update, the responsible Federal agency must complete a preliminary assessment (PA) and, if warranted, a site inspection (SI) within 18 months of publication of the notice. Such site evaluation activities will help determine whether the facility should be included on the National Priorities List (NPL) and will provide EPA and the public with valuable information about the facility. In addition to the list of additions to the docket, this notice includes a section that comprises revisions (that is, corrections and deletions) of the previous docket list and a list of the facilities on the docket that have been evaluated and determined to be not appropriate for listing on the NPL at this time (the no further remedial action planned [NFRAP] list). At the time of publication of this notice, the new total number of Federal facilities listed on the docket is 2,070.