[Federal Register Volume 63, Number 12 (Tuesday, January 20, 1998)]
[Notices]
[Page 3003]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 98-1241]
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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE
Notice of Lodging of Consent Decree Under the Comprehensive,
Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act (``CERCLA'')
In accordance with Departmental policy, 28 CFR 50.7, notice is
hereby given that a proposed consent decree in United States v. Beaunit
Corporation, et al., (W.D.N.C.), Civil Action No. 5:97CV198-MCK, was
lodged on December 18, 1997, with the United States District Court for
the Western District of North Carolina.
In this action the United States sought injunctive relief and
recovery of response costs under Sections 106(a) and 107 of CERCLA, 42
U.S.C. 9606(a) and 9607, with respect to the FCX-Statesville Superfund
Site, located in Iredell County, North Carolina (``the Site'') the
location of a textile plant owned and operated from 1927 to the present
by a succession of several entities including El Paso Natural Gas
Company, Beaunit Corporation and Burlington Industries, Inc., the
current owner.
Under a proposed Consent Decree, El Paso Natural Gas Company has
agreed to perform EPA's selected Site remedy for Operable Unit No. 3
which includes any contingency measures that EPA may determine to be
necessary. If EPA determines that contingency measures are necessary,
Burlington Industries Inc. will also be responsible for performing such
response actions. Beaunit will be responsible for paying all of EPA's
future response costs. El Paso Natural Gas Company and Burlington
Industries, Inc., have previously reimbursed EPA of all of its past
response costs pursuant to a June 1993 Administrative Order On Consent.
The Department of Justice will receive, for a period of thirty (30)
days from the date of this publication, comments relating to the
proposed consent decree. Comments should be addressed to the Assistant
Attorney General for the Environment and Natural Resources Division,
Department of Justice, Washington, DC 20530, and should refer to United
States v. Beaunit Corporation, et al., DOJ Ref. #90-11-3-1698.
The proposed consent decree may be examined at the office of the
United States Attorney, 324 West Market Street 4th Floor, Greensboro,
North Carolina, 27402; the Region 4 Office of the Environmental
Protection Agency, 61 Forsythe Street, Atlanta, Georgia 30303, and at
the Consent Decree Library, 1120 G Street, NW., 4th Floor, Washington,
DC 20005, (202) 624-0892. A copy of the proposed consent decree may be
obtained in person or by mail from the Consent Decree Library, 1120 G
Street, NW., 4th Floor, Washington, DC 20005. In requesting a copy
please refer to the referenced case and enclose a check in the amount
of $54.75 (25 cents per page reproduction costs), payable to the
Consent Decree Library. In requesting a copy exclusive of exhibits,
please enclose a check for $26.50 (25 cents per page reproduction
costs), payable to the Consent Decree Library.
Joel M. Gross,
Chief, Environmental Enforcement Section, Environment and Natural
Resources Division.
[FR Doc. 98-1241 Filed 1-16-98; 8:45 am]
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