[Federal Register Volume 60, Number 3 (Thursday, January 5, 1995)]
[Notices]
[Pages 1801-1802]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 95-185]



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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

Notice of Lodging of Consent Decree Pursuant to Comprehensive 
Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act; Bay Area 
Battery Inc.

    In accordance with the policy of the United States Department of 
Justice, as provided in 28 CFR 50.7, notice is hereby given that on 
December 21, 1994, a proposed Consent Decree in United States v. Bay 
Area Battery, Inc., Civil No. 94-50390-RV, was lodged with the United 
States District Court for the Northern District of Florida. The 
proposed Consent Decree concerns the Sapp Battery Superfund Site in 
Jackson County, Florida. The Site is contaminated with heavy metals 
caused by a battery cracking business that operated on the Site from 
1970 until 1980. Pursuant to Sections 106 and 107(a) of CERCLA, 42 
U.S.C. 9696 and 9607(a), the Complaint in this action seeks defendants' 
performance of the remedy selected by EPA for the Site, as well as 
recovery of previously unreimbursed response costs incurred and to be 
incurred by the United States in connection with the Site.
    The 20 Settling Defendants have agreed in the proposed Consent 
Decree to reimburse the United States in the amount of $214,500, which 
comprises a portion of its response costs incurred at the Site. The 
proposed decree also provides that the settlors will pay $54,800 to 
another group of potentially responsible parties, who are performing a 
portion of the remedy selected by EPA for the Site under consent decree 
entered by the Court in United States v. Aaron Scrap, et al., Civ. No. 
92-50244/LAC, on March 10, 1993.
    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. Bay Area Battery, Inc., D.J. Ref. 
90-11-2-699G.
    The proposed Consent Decree may be examined at any of the following 
offices: (1) the Office of the United States Attorney for the Northern 
District of Florida, 114 E. Gregory Street, Pensacola, Florida; (2) the 
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Region 4, 345 Courtland Street, 
N.E., Atlanta, Georgia; and (3) the Consent Decree Library, 1120 G 
Street, N.W., 4th Floor, Washington, D.C. 20005, (202) 624-0892. Copies 
of the proposed Decree may be obtained by mail from [[Page 1802]] the 
Consent Decree Library, 1120 G Street, N.W., 4th Floor, Washington, 
D.C. 20005. For a copy of the Consent Decree, please enclose a check 
for $11.50 ($.25 per page reproduction charge) payable to ``Consent 
Decree Library.''
Bruce Gelber,
Acting Chief, Environmental Enforcement Section, Environment & Natural 
Resources Division.
[FR Doc. 95-185 Filed 1-4-95; 8:45 am]
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