[Federal Register Volume 63, Number 33 (Thursday, February 19, 1998)]
[Notices]
[Page 8475]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 98-4210]
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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.
Hillsborough County, Florida, et al. (M.D. Fl.) Civil Action No. 98-
239-CIV-T-25F, was lodged on February 4, 1998, with the United States
District Court for the Middle District of Florida.
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 Taylor Road Landfill
Superfund Site in Hillsborough County, Florida (``the Site'') which is
the location of a solid waste landfill utilized from May 1976 until
February 1980.
Under a proposed Consent Decree, Hillsborough County, the past and
present owner and operator of the Site, and a group of settlors which
arranged for the disposal of hazardous substances at the site, have
agreed to perform the remedy chosen by EPA to clean up the Site, pay
all of the government's future response costs, and pay over 75 percent
of the government's remaining past response costs, incurred or to be
incurred for response activities at the Site.
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, D.C. 20530, and should refer to
United States v. Hillsborough County, Florida, et al. (M.D. Fl.) and
DOJ #90-11-3-1614.
The proposed consent decree may be examined at the office of the
United States Attorney, 500 Zack Street, Room 400, Tampa, Florida
33602; the Region 4 Office of the Environmental Protection Agency, 61
Forsythe Street, Atlanta, Georgia 30303, and at the Consent Decree
Library, 1120 G Street, N.W., 4th Floor, Washington, D.C. 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, N.W.,
4th Floor, Washington, D.C. 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 $31.50 (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. 98-4210 Filed 2-18-98; 8:45 am]
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