[Federal Register Volume 59, Number 45 (Tuesday, March 8, 1994)]
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[FR Doc No: 94-5197]


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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

 

Lodging of Consent Decree Pursuant to the Comprehensive 
Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980, as 
Amended

    In accordance with Departmental policy, 28 CFR 50.7 and pursuant to 
section 122 of the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation 
and Liability Act (``CERCLA''), 42 U.S.C. 9622, notice is hereby given 
that a proposed Consent Decree in United States v. Agrico Chemical 
Company, at al., Civil Action No. 93-23-C, was lodged on February 15, 
1994 with the United States District Court for the Northern District of 
Florida, Pensacola Division.
    This case concerns a former fertilizer manufacturing facility at 
the intersection of Interstate 110 and Fairfield Drive in Pensacola, 
Florida, known as the Agrico Chemical Company Superfund Site (the 
``Site''). Pursuant to Sections 106 and 107 of the Comprehensive 
Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act (``CERCLA''), 42 
U.S.C. 9606 and 9607, the Complaint in this action seeks recovery of 
all past and future costs incurred and to be incurred by the United 
States at the Site, and injunctive relief for the Site, namely, 
implementation of the remedy selected by EPA in a Record of Decision 
(``ROD'') dated September 29, 1992. The ROD provides for remediation of 
contaminated sludge and soils for Operable Unit 1 (``OU1'') at the 
Site.
    Defendants Agrico Chemical Company, a division of Freeport-MacMoRan 
Resource Partners Limited Partnership, and Conoco, Inc., a wholly owned 
subsidiary of E.I. Du Pont de Nemours and Company, Inc., (collectively, 
the ``Settling Defendants'') have agreed in the proposed Consent Decree 
to pay the United States $232,907.22 for past response costs incurred 
at the Site, as well as all future costs of overseeing the 
implementation of the Remedial Action of OU1. The Settling Defendants 
have also agreed to implement the remedy selected by EPA for the Site. 
The cost of the selected remedy is approximately $10,700,000.
    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, DC 20530, and should refer to United 
States v. Agrico Chemical Company, at al., DOJ Ref. #90-11-2-863.
    The proposed Consent Decree may be examined at the office of the 
United States Attorney, Northern District of Florida, 114 East Gregory 
Street, Pensacola, Florida; the Office of the United States 
Environmental Protection Agency, Region IV, 345 Courtland Street, NE., 
Atlanta, Georgia; and at the Consent Decree 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 $43.00 (25 cents per page reproduction 
costs), payable to the Consent Decree Library for a copy of the Consent 
Decree with attachments (ROD, Statement of Work and Site map) or a 
check in the amount of $19.25, a copy of the proposed Consent Decree 
without those attachments.
John C. Cruden,
Chief, Environmental Enforcement Section, Environment and Natural 
Resources Division.
[FR Doc. 94-5197 Filed 3-7-94; 8:45 am]
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