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Public Comment Process

The public has the opportunity to comment on EPA's proposed addition of 13 sites (New Proposed NPL Sites) to the National Priorities List (NPL). EPA publishes notices in the Federal Register, listing which sites are being proposed to the NPL. The documents that form the basis for EPA's evaluation and scoring of the sites in this rule are contained in public Dockets located at EPA Headquarters in Washington, DC, in the Regional offices and by electronic access at Regulations.gov (http://www.regulations.gov).

EPA considers all comments received during a 60-day comment period following the publication date in the Federal Register. During the comment period, comments are placed in the Headquarters docket and are available to the public on an "as received" basis. A complete set of comments will be available for viewing in the Regional docket approximately one week after the formal comment period closes. Comments that include complex or voluminous reports, or materials prepared for purposes other than HRS (Introduction to the HRS) scoring, should point out the specific information that EPA should consider and how it affects individual factor values. EPA will make final listing decisions after considering the relevant comments received during the comment period. These decisions are provided in a rule-specific support document (in PDF) that includes all sites that are being finalized to the NPL for which comments have been received.

The Headquarters Superfund docket contains:

Each Regional docket contains all of the information in the Headquarters docket for sites in that Region, plus reference documents containing the data principally relied upon and cited by EPA in evaluating the HRS scores for sites in that Region. These reference documents are available only in the Regional dockets. Interested parties may view documents by appointment only or copies may be requested from the Headquarters or appropriate Regional docket.

The hours of operation for the Headquarters docket are from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. ET, Monday through Friday, excluding Federal holidays. Please contact the Regional dockets for hours.

The visiting address for the Headquarters Superfund Docket is CERCLA Docket Office, 1301 Constitution Avenue, EPA West, Room 3334, Washington, DC 20004, 202/566-0276.

The addresses for the Regional Superfund Docket offices are:

The following table lists the proposed sites and their Federal Docket Management System (FDMS) Docket Identification Numbers:

FDMS Docket Identification Numbers By Site

Site name City/state FDMS Docket ID Number
General Dynamics Longwood Longwood, FL EPA-HQ-SFUND-2009-0067
Lane Street Ground Water Contamination Elkhart, IN EPA-HQ-SFUND-2009-0071
Southwest Jefferson County Mining Jefferson County, MO EPA-HQ-SFUND-2009-0074
Flat Creek IMM Superior, MT EPA-HQ-SFUND-2009-0075
Ore Knob Mine Ashe County, NC EPA-HQ-SFUND-2009-0068
GMH Electronics Roxboro, NC EPA-HQ-SFUND-2009-0069
Raritan Bay Slag Old Bridge Township/Sayreville, NJ EPA-HQ-SFUND-2009-0062
Gowanus Canal Brooklyn, NY EPA-HQ-SFUND-2009-0063
Little Scioto River Marion County, OH EPA-HQ-SFUND-2009-0072
Foster Wheeler Energy Corporation/Church Road TCE Mountain Top, PA EPA-HQ-SFUND-2009-0065
Papelera Puertorriquena, Inc. Utuado, PR EPA-HQ-SFUND-2009-0064
Peck Iron and Metal Portsmouth, VA EPA-HQ-SFUND-2009-0066
Amcast Industrial Corporation Cedarburg, WI EPA-HQ-SFUND-2009-0073

Submit your comments, identified by the appropriate FDMS Docket number, by one of the following methods:

Such deliveries are only accepted during the Docket's normal hours of operation (8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., Monday through Friday excluding Federal holidays). Special arrangements should be made for deliveries of boxed information.

Instructions: Direct your comments to the appropriate FDMS Docket number (see table above). EPA's policy is that all comments received will be included in the public Docket without change and may be made available online at Regulations.gov (http://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 Regulations.gov (http://www.regulations.gov) or e-mail. The Regulations.gov (http://www.regulations.gov) website is an "anonymous access" system; that means EPA will not know your identity or contact information unless you provide it in the body of your comment. If you send an e-mail comment directly to EPA without going through Regulations.gov (http://www.regulations.gov), your e-mail 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.

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