98-14322. Notice of Lodging of Consent Decree Pursuant to the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act

[Federal Register Volume 63, Number 104 (Monday, June 1, 1998)]
[Notices]
[Pages 29753-29754]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 98-14322]


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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 Section 122(d) of the Comprehensive 
Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act, as amended, 42 
U.S.C. 9622(d), and the policy of the United States Department of 
Justice, as provided in 28 CFR 50.7, notice is hereby given that on May 
15, 1998, a proposed Second Consent Decree in United States v. City of 
Jacksonville, Florida, et al., Civ. No. C-92-133-CIV-J-16, was lodged 
with the United States District Court for the Middle District of 
Florida. This Second Consent Decree concerns the Picketville Road 
Landfill Superfund Site in Jacksonville, Florida. The 52-acre Site is a 
former City landfill used for disposal of residential, industrial and 
commercial wastes, including solid and liquid hazardous wastes.
    On April 22, 1992, the Court in this action entered a First Consent 
Decree under which sixteen potentially responsible parties agreed to 
partially reimburse the United States for its past

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response costs and to implement the permanent remedy selected by EPA 
for remediation of contaminated groundwater, surface water and 
sediments, and soils.
    Under the proposed Second Consent Decree, ten new defendants have 
agreed to pay the United States $150,000 in partial reimbursement of 
its outstanding past response costs.
    The Department of Justice will receive, for a period of thirty (30) 
days from the date of this publication, comments concerning the 
proposed Second Consent Decree. Comments should be addressed to the 
Assistant Attorney General, Environment and Natural Resources Division, 
U.S. Department of Justice, P.O. Box 7611, Washington, D.C. 20044, and 
should refer to United States v. City of Jacksonville, Florida, et al., 
D.J. Ref. 90-11-3-725.
    The proposed Second Consent Decree may be examined at any of the 
following offices: (1) the Office of the United States Attorney for the 
Middle District of Florida, 200 W. Forsyth Street, Ste. 700, 
Jacksonville, Florida 32201; (2) the U.S. Environmental Protection 
Agency, Region 4, 61 Forsyth Street, S.W., Atlanta, Georgia; and (3) 
the Consent Decree Library, 1120 G Street, N.W., 4th Floor, Washington, 
D.C. 20005 (telephone [phone]).
    A copy of the proposed Second 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. 2005. Please refer to the referenced case. 
The cost for a copy of the Decree is $8.00 (based on a photocopying 
charge of $0.25 per page): All checks should be made payable to 
``Consent Decree Library.''
Joel M. Gross,
Chief, Environmental Enforcement Section, Environment and Natural 
Resources Division.
[FR Doc. 98-14322 Filed 5-29-98; 8:45 am]
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