96-16273. Notice of Lodging of Consent Decree Pursuant to the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act

[Federal Register Volume 61, Number 124 (Wednesday, June 26, 1996)]
[Notices]
[Pages 33138-33139]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 96-16273]



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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 
June 14, 1996, a proposed Consent Decree in United States v. Ciba-Geigy 
Corporation, Civ. No. 96-0571-CB-M, was lodged with the United States 
District Court for the Southern District of Alabama. This Consent 
Decree concerns Operable Unit Three of the Ciba-Geigy Corporation 
manufacturing plant site (``the Site'') adjacent to the Tombigbee River 
near McIntosh, Alabama. Pursuant to Sections 106 and 107(a) of CERCLA, 
the Complaint in this action seeks recovery of past response costs 
incurred by the United States at the entire Site, future response costs 
in connection with the proposed Decree,

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and injunctive relief for Operable Unit No. Three (``OU3''). OU3 
consists of a contaminated floodplain and wetlands area at the Site. 
Ciba-Geigy has agreed in the proposed Consent Decree to: (1) perform 
the selected remedy for OU3, which includes excavation and remediation 
of certain contaminated soils and sediments, and bioremediation of 
another 10 acres in ecologically sensitive areas, at a total estimated 
cost of $1.5 million; and (2) reimburse the United States for all of 
its outstanding past response costs incurred at the Site not covered 
under previous Consent Decrees executed by Ciba-Geigy for Operable 
Units Two and Four of the Site, and also reimburse EPA for all of its 
future response and oversight costs incurred in connection with OU3 and 
this Decree.
    The Department of Justice will receive, for a period of thirty (30) 
days from the date of this publication, comments concerning the 
proposed 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. Ciba-Geigy Corporation (Operable Unit 
3 of Ciba-Geigy McIntosh, Alabama Site), D.J. Ref. 90-11-2-781B.
    The proposed Consent Decree may be examined at any of the following 
offices: (1) the Office of the United States Attorney for the Southern 
District of Alabama, U.S. Courthouse, 113 St. Joseph Street, Mobile, 
Alabama; (2) the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Region 4, 345 
Courtland Street, N.E., 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 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. For a copy of the 
Consent Decree with attachments (Record of Decision, Statement of Work 
and Site map), please refer to the referenced case and enclose a check 
for $51.25 ($.25 per page reproduction charge) payable to ``Consent 
Decree Library.'' For a copy of the Consent Decree without those 
attachments, please refer to the referenced case and enclose a check 
for $22.00 ($.25 per page reproduction charge) payable to ``Consent 
Decree Library.''
Joel Gross,
Chief, Environmental Enforcement Section, Environment & Natural 
Resources Division.
[FR Doc. 96-16273 Filed 6-25-96; 8:45 am]
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