[Federal Register Volume 60, Number 135 (Friday, July 14, 1995)]
[Notices]
[Pages 36309-36310]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 95-17340]
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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 CFR 50.7, and 42 U.S.C.
9622(d)(2), notice is hereby given that a proposed consent decree in
United States v. Olin Corporation, Civil Action No. 95-0256-BH-S was
lodged on July 5, 1995, with the United States District Court for the
Southern District of Alabama, Southern Division. This agreement
resolves a judicial enforcement action brought by the United States
against Olin Corporation pursuant to Sections 106 and 107 of CERCLA, 42
U.S.C. 9606 and 9607, for injunctive relief, and for the recovery of
response costs incurred and to be incurred by the United States in
connection with the first Operable Unit (``OU1'') at the Olin Chemical/
McIntosh Plant Superfund Site, in McIntosh, Washington County, Alabama.
Under the proposed Consent Decree, the United States has obtained
100 percent of its past response costs incurred with respect to
response actions conducted at OU1, including prejudgment interest, and
has obtained a commitment for payment of all EPA's future oversight
costs with respect to OU1. Olin Corporation will also assume full
responsibility for the remedy to be conducted at OU1 pursuant to the
Record of Decision executed by EPA on December 16, 1994.
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. Olin Corporation, DOJ Ref. # 90-11-2-1001.
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 NE., Atlanta,
Georgia 30365; and the Consent Decree
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Library, 1120 G Street NW., 4th Floor, Washington, DC 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 NW., 4th
Floor, Washington, DC 20005. In requesting a copy please refer to the
referenced case and enclose a check in the amount of $18.75 (25 cents
per page reproduction costs), payable to the Consent Decree Library.
Bruce Gelber,
Acting Chief, Environmental Enforcement Section, Environment and
Natural Resources Division.
[FR Doc. 95-17340 Filed 7-13-95; 8:45 am]
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