[Federal Register Volume 60, Number 14 (Monday, January 23, 1995)]
[Notices]
[Pages 4446-4447]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 95-1557]



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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 C.F.R. Sec. 50.7, and 
Section 122(d)(2) of the Comprehensive Environmental Response, 
Compensation, and Liability Act (``CERCLA''), 42 U.S.C. 
Sec. 9622(d)(2), notice is hereby given that a proposed consent decree 
in United States v. American National Petroleum Co. et. al., Civil 
Action No. CV 94-2357, was lodged on December 23, 1994, with the United 
States District Court for the Western District of Louisiana.
    The proposed consent decree settles the government's claims set 
forth in the complaint pursuant to Sections 106 and 107 of CERCLA, 42 
U.S.C. Secs. 9606, 9607, or injunctive relief to abate an imminent and 
substantial endangerment to the public health, welfare or the 
environment because of actual or threatened releases of hazardous 
substances from a facility known as the ``Gulf Coast Vacuum Site'' 
located in Abbeville, Vermilion Parish, Louisiana and for the recovery 
of response costs incurred by the United States in connection with a 
response action taken at that facility. The complaint alleges, inter 
alia, that the defendants are each [[Page 4447]] persons who were 
generators of hazardous substances which were disposed of at the 
facility, and that the United States has incurred and will continue to 
incur costs in response to the release or threat of release of 
hazardous substances from the Site.
    Under the terms of the proposed consent decree, the defendants 
agree to fund and implement a remedy at the Gulf Coast Vacuum Site 
which includes the destruction of organic materials to performance 
standards as more specifically set forth in the Statement of Work which 
is appended to the proposed consent decree. In addition, the defendants 
agree to pay all future response costs incurred by the United States 
which exceed amounts recovered from de minimis settlors under a 
separate De Minimis Administrative Order on Consent.
    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. American National Petroleum Company, et. al., DOJ Ref. # 90-
11-2-506B.
    The proposed consent decree may be examined at the office of the 
United States Attorney, Western District of Louisiana, United States 
Courthouse, 300 Fannin St., Suite 3201, Shreveport, LA 71101; the 
Region VI Office of the Environmental Protection Agency, 1445 Ross 
Avenue, Suite 1200, Dallas, Texas 75502; and at the Consent Decree 
Library, 1120 G Street, NW., 4th Floor Washington, DC 20005, (202) 624-
0892. A copy of 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 $24.75 (25 
cents per page reproduction costs), payable to the Consent Decree 
Library.
Bruce S. Gelber,
Acting Chief, Environmental Enforcement Section, Environment and 
Natural Resources Divisions.
[FR Doc. 95-1557 Filed 1-20-95; 8:45 am]
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