[Federal Register Volume 59, Number 93 (Monday, May 16, 1994)]
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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 50.7, and 42 U.S.C. 
9622(d)(2), notice is hereby given that a proposed consent decree in 
United States v. Bridgestone/Firestone, Inc., et al., Civil Action No. 
94-56-2-ALB-AMER(DS), was lodged on April 25, 1994 with the United 
States District Court for the Middle District of Georgia. The proposed 
Consent Decree concerns the Firestone Tire and Rubber Co. Superfund 
Site (the ``Site'') near Albany, Georgia. The Site involves soils and 
groundwater contaminated by PCBs and other hazardous substances. The 
Albany-Dougherty Payroll Authority has owned the Site since 1967. From 
1968 until 1986, Firestone Tire and Rubber Co. manufactured tires at 
this location, during which operations it contaminated the Site with 
heavy metals, PCBs and other hazardous substances. Bridgestone/
Firestone (``B/F'') is the corporate successor to Firestone Tire and 
Rubber Co. Pursuant to sections 106 and 107(a) of the Comprehensive 
Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act, as amended by 
the Superfund Amendments and Reauthorization Act of 1986, Public Law 
No. 99-499, 42 U.S.C. 9696 and 9607(a), the Complaint in this action 
seeks performance of the remedy selected by EPA, as well as recovery of 
all past response costs incurred by the United States at the Site and 
of all future and oversight costs to be incurred by the United States 
in connection with the Site.
    B/F has agreed in the proposed Consent Decree to (1) perform the 
remedy selected by EPA at a total estimated cost of $2 million, and (2) 
reimburse the United States for all of its past response costs incurred 
at the Site ($348,333.04), and all of its future response and oversight 
costs. The selected remedy requires excavation and off-site disposal of 
the contaminated soils and the extraction and treatment of contaminated 
groundwater. In the proposed Consent Decree, The Albany-Dougherty 
Payroll Development Authority has agreed to provide access to the Site, 
record deed restrictions, and impose institutional controls on the 
Site.
    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. Bridgestone/Firestone, Inc., et al., DOJ Ref. #90-11-3-1130.
    The proposed consent decree may be examined at the office of the 
United States Attorney for the Middle District of Georgia, 433 Cherry 
Street, 4th Floor, Macon, Georgia; the Environmental Protection Agency, 
Region 4, 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 $54.00 (25 cents 
per page reproduction costs), payable to the Consent Decree Library.
John C. Cruden,
Chief, Environmental Enforcement Section, Environment and Natural 
Resources Division.
[FR Doc. 94-11807 Filed 5-13-94; 8:45 am]
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