[Federal Register Volume 60, Number 95 (Wednesday, May 17, 1995)]
[Notices]
[Pages 26457-26458]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 95-12076]
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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE
Notice of Lodging of Consent Decree Pursuant to the Comprehensive
Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980
Notice is hereby given that on April 28, 1995, a proposed Partial
Consent Decree in United States v. Abbott Laboratories, et al., Civil
Action No. 3-95-1308-17, was lodged with the United States District
Court for the District of South Carolina. The Complaint, brought
pursuant to Sections 106 and 107 of the Comprehensive Environmental
Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980, as amended
(``CERCLA''), 42 U.S.C. Secs. 9606 and 9607, seeks injunctive relief to
abate an imminent and substantial endangerment to the public health or
welfare or the environment, and recovery of response costs incurred or
to be incurred by the United States in connection with the Bluff Road
Superfund Site in Richland County, South Carolina (the ``Site''). The
consent decree, which provides for partial funding of the Remedial
Design and Remedial Action (``RD/RA'') selected by EPA for the Site, is
the final consent decree for the Site and brings to a conclusion the
governments efforts to secure cleanup of on-Site contamination by
private potentially responsible parties (``PRPs'').
Under the terms of this proposed decree, the group of settling PRPs
that implemented and completed the Remedial Investigation/Feasibility
Study at the Site under an EPA Administrative Order by Consent
(``AOC''), will also contribute to the funding of the RD/RA. The terms
setting forth the responsibilities of the settling PRPs in this
proposed decree incorporate the terms on funding as originally set
forth in the AOC. Payments under the proposed decree, combined with
funding by other PRPs under a consent decree entered in U.S. v. Allied,
Civ. No. 92-1108-0, on September 28, 1992, represent 99.30% of the
total past costs incurred by EPA at the Site, and 100% of future costs
to be incurred by EPA in overseeing implementation of the remedy at the
Site. The responsibility of implementing the RD/RA lies with other
settling PRPs under the Allied consent decree.
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 of the Environment and Natural Resources Division,
Department of Justice, Washington, D.C. 20530. Comments should refer to
the United States v. Abbott Laboratories, et al., D.O.J. Ref. 90-7-1-
61D.
The proposed Consent Decree may be examined at the Office of the
United States Attorney for the District of South Carolina, 1441 Main
Street, Ste. 500, Columbia South Carolina, and at the Environmental
Enforcement Section 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 enclose a check in the amount of $34.75
[[Page 26458]] (25 cents per page reproduction cost) payable to the
Consent Decree Library.
Joel M. Gross,
Acting Section Chief, Environmental Enforcement Section, Environment
and Natural Resources Division.
[FR Doc. 95-12076 Filed 5-16-95; 8:45 am]
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