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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 a proposed consent decree in United States v. AT&T, 
et al., Civil Action No. 2:94CV00438, was lodged on August 3, 1994, 
with the United States District Court for the Middle District of North 
Carolina. This agreement resolves a judicial enforcement action brought 
by the United States against the defendants pursuant to Sections 106 
and 107 of the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and 
Liability Act, as amended by the Superfund Amendments and 
Reauthorization Act of 1986, Pub. L. 99-499, 42 U.S.C. Secs. 9606 and 
9607, for the cleanup of the Bypass 601 Superfund Site (``Site'') in 
Cabarrus County, Concord, North Carolina, and for the recovery of 
response costs incurred and to be incurred by the United States in 
connection with the Site.
    The consent decree requires the settling defendants to pay 100 
percent of the past and future response costs which the United States 
has incurred and will incur at the Site. The settling defendants have 
also agreed under the decree to perform the final remedy for the Site 
which EPA set forth in its Record of Decision dated April 20, 1993, and 
which provides for excavation, treatment, and on-site disposal of 
contaminated soils, and extraction and treatment of contaminated 
groundwater across the Site.
    The settling defendants have also covenanted not to sue other 
potentially responsible parties who sent less than 320 pounds of lead-
bearing materials to the Site. The United States has agreed under this 
Decree to provide up to $10.1 million in preauthorized mixed funding 
pursuant to Section 122(b)(1) of CERCLA, 42 U.S.C. Sec. 9622(b)(1). 
This Decree has been executed in conjunction with an Administrative 
Order on Consent whereby a group of potentially responsible parties who 
sent less than 40,000 pounds of lead-bearing materials to the Site will 
each pay a portion of the past costs.
    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. AT&T, et al., DOJ Ref. #90-11-3-1128.
    The proposed consent decree may be examined at the Office of the 
United States Attorney, 324 West Market Street, Greensboro, North 
Carolina 27402; at the Region IV Office of the Environmental Protection 
Agency, 345 Courtland Street, NE., Atlanta, Georgia 30365; 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 $80.75 (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. 94-20577 Filed 8-22-94; 8:45 am]
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