[Federal Register Volume 61, Number 153 (Wednesday, August 7, 1996)]
[Notices]
[Page 41182]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 96-20089]
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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 Departmental policy, 28 CFR Sec. 50.7, notice is
hereby given that, on or about July 29, 1996, a proposed Consent Decree
in United States v. Russell Martin Bliss, et al., Civil No. 89-375C-1,
was lodged with the United States District Court for the Eastern
District of Missouri. The Decree represents a settlement with landowner
defendant Antimony Corporation of claims under Sections 106 and 107 of
the Comprehensive Environmental Response Compensation and Liability Act
(CERCLA), 42 U.S.C. 9606 and 9607, arising out of the release by
Russell Martin Bliss of the hazardous substance dioxin at the East
Texas Motor Freight Company Site, located at 119 Douglas Street in St.
Louis, Missouri. Civil No. 89-357C-1 is one of the consolidated actions
known collectively as the Missouri Dioxin Litigation, which was brought
by the United States to obtain injunctive relief and recover response
costs arising out of the release of dioxin at 28 sites in eastern
Missouri. The East Texas Motor Freight Company Site is one of those 28
sites.
Under the settlement, Antimony will reimburse the Hazardous Waste
Trust Fund (the Superfund) $300,000 and will assure continued access to
the Site to the United States Environmental Protection Agency (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 Decree. Comments should be addressed to the Assistant Attorney
General of the Environment and Natural Resources Division, Department
of Justice, Washington, D.C. 20530, and should refer to United States
v. Russell Martin Bliss, et al., Civil No. 89-357C-1, D.J. Ref. 90-11-
2-41.
The proposed Consent Decree may be examined at the Office of the
United States Attorney, Eastern District of Missouri, 1114 Market
Street, St. Louis, Missouri 63101; EPA-Region VII's offices at 726
Minnesota Avenue, Kansas City, Missouri 66101; and at 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
enclose a check in the amount of $7.75 (25 cents per page reproduction
cost) payable to the Consent Decree Library.
Bruce S. Gelber,
Deputy Chief, Environmental Enforcement Section, Environment and
Natural Resources Division.
[FR Doc. 96-20089 Filed 8-6-96; 8:45 am]
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