[Federal Register Volume 60, Number 14 (Monday, January 23, 1995)]
[Notices]
[Pages 4446-4447]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 95-1557]
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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE
Notice of Lodging of Consent Decree Pursuant to the Comprehensive
Environmental Response Compensation and Liability Act
In accordance with Departmental policy, 28 C.F.R. Sec. 50.7, and
Section 122(d)(2) of the Comprehensive Environmental Response,
Compensation, and Liability Act (``CERCLA''), 42 U.S.C.
Sec. 9622(d)(2), notice is hereby given that a proposed consent decree
in United States v. American National Petroleum Co. et. al., Civil
Action No. CV 94-2357, was lodged on December 23, 1994, with the United
States District Court for the Western District of Louisiana.
The proposed consent decree settles the government's claims set
forth in the complaint pursuant to Sections 106 and 107 of CERCLA, 42
U.S.C. Secs. 9606, 9607, or injunctive relief to abate an imminent and
substantial endangerment to the public health, welfare or the
environment because of actual or threatened releases of hazardous
substances from a facility known as the ``Gulf Coast Vacuum Site''
located in Abbeville, Vermilion Parish, Louisiana and for the recovery
of response costs incurred by the United States in connection with a
response action taken at that facility. The complaint alleges, inter
alia, that the defendants are each [[Page 4447]] persons who were
generators of hazardous substances which were disposed of at the
facility, and that the United States has incurred and will continue to
incur costs in response to the release or threat of release of
hazardous substances from the Site.
Under the terms of the proposed consent decree, the defendants
agree to fund and implement a remedy at the Gulf Coast Vacuum Site
which includes the destruction of organic materials to performance
standards as more specifically set forth in the Statement of Work which
is appended to the proposed consent decree. In addition, the defendants
agree to pay all future response costs incurred by the United States
which exceed amounts recovered from de minimis settlors under a
separate De Minimis 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. American National Petroleum Company, et. al., DOJ Ref. # 90-
11-2-506B.
The proposed consent decree may be examined at the office of the
United States Attorney, Western District of Louisiana, United States
Courthouse, 300 Fannin St., Suite 3201, Shreveport, LA 71101; the
Region VI Office of the Environmental Protection Agency, 1445 Ross
Avenue, Suite 1200, Dallas, Texas 75502; and at the Consent Decree
Library, 1120 G Street, NW., 4th Floor Washington, DC 20005, (202) 624-
0892. A copy of 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 $24.75 (25
cents per page reproduction costs), payable to the Consent Decree
Library.
Bruce S. Gelber,
Acting Chief, Environmental Enforcement Section, Environment and
Natural Resources Divisions.
[FR Doc. 95-1557 Filed 1-20-95; 8:45 am]
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