[Federal Register Volume 60, Number 134 (Thursday, July 13, 1995)]
[Notices]
[Pages 36163-36164]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 95-17176]
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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE
Notice of Lodging of Consent Decree Pursuant to the Comprehensive
Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA)
In accordance with Departmental policy, 28 C.F.R. 50.7, and 42
U.S.C. 9622(d)(2), notice is hereby given that a proposed consent
decree in United States v. Monsanto Company, et al., Civil Action No.
3:92-0961-19, was lodged on July 3, 1995, with the United States
District Court for the District of South Carolina. This agreement
resolves a judicial enforcement action brought by the United States
against the defendants pursuant to Section 107 of the Comprehensive
Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act, 42 U.S.C.
9607, for the recovery of response costs incurred and to be incurred by
the United States in connection with the Dixiana Superfund Site
(``Site'') located in Lexington County, South Carolina.
Under the proposed Consent Decree, the United States has obtained
84.5 percent of its past response costs, including prejudgment
interest, totaling $4,132,837, and has obtained a commitment for
payment of all EPA's future oversight costs. The Settling Defendants
will also assume full responsibility for upgrading and completing the
remedy initiated at the Site by EPA.
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. Monsanto Company, et al., DOJ Ref. #90-11-3-336.
The proposed consent decree may be examined at the office of the
United States Attorney, 1st Union Building, 1441 Main Street, Suite
500, Columbia, South Carolina; the Region IV Office of the
Environmental Protection Agency, 345 Courtland Street, N.E., Atlanta,
Georgia; and 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 $20.25 (25 cents per page reproduction
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costs), payable to the Consent Decree Library.
Bruce Gelber,
Acting Chief, Environmental Enforcement Section, Environmental and
Natural Resources Division.
[FR Doc. 95-17176 Filed 7-12-95; 8:45 am]
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