[Federal Register Volume 61, Number 55 (Wednesday, March 20, 1996)]
[Notices]
[Pages 11431-11432]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 96-6613]
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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), as amended, 42 U.S.C.
Sec. 9622(d)(2), notice is hereby given that a proposed consent decree
in United States v. Chevron Chemical Company, et al., Civil Action No.
7:96-CV-20, was lodged on March 8, 1996, with the United States
District Court for the Middle District of Georgia. Under the proposed
consent decree, the settling defendants, Chevron Chemical and Kova
Fertilizer, will reimburse the United States $376,170.40 for its past
response costs incurred at the Marzone/Chevron Chemical Superfund Site
in Tifton, Georgia. Settling Defendants will also implement most of the
Remedial Design and Remedial Action for Operable Unit One of the Site,
at an estimated cost of $5.2 million. In particular, they will conduct
the complete Remedial Design and Remedial Action for the contaminated
soils and prepare a preliminary Remedial Design for mediation of the
contaminated groundwater. Settling defendants will also fully reimburse
EPA for its past and future response costs in connection with Operable
Unit One.
This action is brought pursuant to Sections 106 and 107 of CERCLA,
42 U.S.C. Secs. 9606 and 9607. The settling defendants are past owners
or operators of the Site, which was used for the formulation of
pesticides.
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. Chevron Chemical Company, et al., DOJ Ref.
#90-11-3-274.
The proposed consent decree may be examined at the office of the
United States Attorney, 433 Cherry Street, Fourth Floor, Macon, Georgia
31202; the Office of Regional Counsel, Region IV, Environmental
Protection Agency, 345 Courtland Street, N.E., Atlanta, Georgia; and at
the Environmental Enforcement Section Consent Decree Library, 1120 G
Street, N.W., 4th Floor, Washington,
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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
of the Decree, please refer to the referenced case and enclose a check
in the amount of $19.50 (25 cents per page reproduction costs), payable
to the Consent Decree Library. For a copy of the Decree with all of the
attachments (Record of Decision for Operable Unit One, Statement of
Work, and Site Map), please refer to the referenced case and enclose a
check in the amount of $37.50 (25 cents per page reproduction costs),
payable to the Consent Decree Library.
Joel Gross,
Chief, Environmental Enforcement Section, Environment and Natural
Resources Division.
[FR Doc. 96-6613 Filed 3-19-96; 8:45 am]
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