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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE
 

Notice of Lodging of Consent Decree Pursuant to Comprehensive 
Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA)

    In accordance with Section 122(d) of the Comprehensive 
Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act, as amended 
(CERCLA), 42 U.S.C. Sec. 9622(d), and the policy of the United States 
Department of Justice, as provided in 28 CFR 50.7, notice is hereby 
given that on November 21, 1994, a proposed Consent Decree in United 
States v. Florida Steel Corporation, Civil No. 94-14241, was lodged 
with the United States District Court for the Southern District of 
Florida. From 1970 until 1982, Florida Steel operated a steel mill and 
metal recycling facility on the Site, which is located near Indiantown, 
Florida. As a result of these operations, the Site is contaminated with 
heavy metals, PCB's and other hazardous substances. The proposed 
Consent Decree addresses Operable Unit Two of the Site, which concerns 
contaminated groundwater and wetland sediments. Pursuant to Sections 
106 and 107(a) of CERCLA, 42 U.S.C. Secs. 9606 and 9607(a), the 
Complaint in this action seeks defendant's performance of the remedy 
selected by EPA for Operable Unit Two, as well as recovery of all 
previously unreinbursed 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 Operable Unit Two.
    Florida Steel has agreed in the proposed Consent Decree to (1) 
perform the remedy selected by EPA for Operable Unit Two, at a total 
estimated cost of $1.2 million, and (2) reimburse the United States for 
all of its previously unreimbursed response costs incurred at the Site, 
and for all of its future response and oversight costs incurred in 
connection with Operable Unit Two. The selected remedy for Operable 
Unit Two requires (1) pumping and treatment of contaminated 
groundwater, and (2) excavation of contaminated wetland sediments and 
solidification of those sediments in an on-Site landfill.
    The Department of Justice will receive for a period of thirty (30) 
days from the date of this publication comments concerning the proposed 
Consent Decree. Comments should be addressed to the Assistant Attorney 
General, Environment and Natural Resources Division, U.S. Department of 
Justice, P.O. Box 7611, Ben Franklin Station, Washington, D.C., 20044, 
and should refer to United States v. Florida Steel Corporation, D.J. 
Ref. 90-11-2-833A (Operable Unit Two).
    The proposed Consent Decree may be examined at any of the following 
offices: (1) The Office of the United States Attorney for the Southern 
District of Florida, 99 NE. 4th Street, suite 300, Miami, Florida; (2) 
the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Region 4, 345 Courtland 
Street, NE., Atlanta, Georgia; and (3) the Consent Decree Library, 1120 
G Street, NW., 4th Floor, Washington, DC 20005, (202) 624-0892. Copies 
of the proposed Decree may be obtained by mail from the Consent Decree 
Library, 1120 G Street, NW., 4th Floor, Washington, DC 20005. For a 
copy of the Consent Decree with attachments (Record of Statement of 
Work and Site map) please enclose a check for $37.50 ($.25 per page 
reproduction charge) payable to ``Consent Decree Library.'' For a copy 
of the Consent Decree without those attachments please enclose a check 
for $19.00 ($.25 per page reproduction charge) payable to ``Consent 
Decree Library.''
Bruce S. Gelber,
Acting Chief, Environmental Enforcement Section, Environment & Natural 
Resources Division.
[FR Doc. 94-30830 Filed 12-14-94; 8:45 am]
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