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[FR Doc No: 94-28603]


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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, notice is hereby given that 
a proposed consent decree in United States v. Farmland Industries, 
Inc., Burlington Northern Railroad Company, and Shell Oil Company, 
Civil Action No. 94-6142-CV-SJ-6, was lodged on 9/24/94 with the United 
States District Court for the Western District of Missouri, St. Joseph 
Division. Burlington Northern Railroad Company, a Delaware corporation, 
is the owner of the Site (also known as the Farmland Industries, Inc. 
Old Insecticide Plant Site) located at or near 1202 4th Street, in St. 
Joseph, Buchanan County, Missouri. Farmland Industries, Inc., a Kansas 
corporation, is the successor in interest to and assumed the liability 
of Missouri Chemical Company who operated the Site at the time of 
disposal of hazardous substances. Shell Oil Company, a Delaware 
corporation, arranged for the disposal or treatment, or arranged with a 
transporter for transport for disposal or treatment, of hazardous 
substances at the Site. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) 
incurred costs in investigating the disposal of hazardous substances 
and overseeing a removal action at the Site undertaken by Farmland 
Industries, Inc. pursuant to an administrative order on consent. The 
proposed Consent Decree provides that the Defendants will pay 
$274,487.44 to the United States, representing 100% of the past costs 
incurred and paid by EPA through March 4, 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. Farmland Industries, Inc., Burlington Northern 
Railroad Company, and Shell Oil Company, DOJ Ref. #90-11-2-920.
    The proposed consent decree may be examined at the office of the 
United States Attorney, 1201 Walnut Street, Suite 2300, Kansas City, MO 
64106-2149; the Region VII Office of the Environmental Protection 
Agency, 726 Minnesota Avenue, Kansas City, Kansas 66101; and at the 
Consent Decree Library, 1120 G Street NW., 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 NW., 4th Floor, Washington, D.C. 20005. In requesting a copy 
please refer to the referenced case and enclose a check in the amount 
of $5.25 (25 cents per page reproduction costs), payable to the Consent 
Decree Library.
Joel Gross,
Acting Chief, Environmental Enforcement Section.
[FR Doc. 94-28603 Filed 11-18-94; 8:45 am]
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