[Federal Register Volume 60, Number 54 (Tuesday, March 21, 1995)]
[Notices]
[Page 14963]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 95-6895]



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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE


Notice of Lodging of Consent Decree Pursuant to the Comprehensive 
Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act

    Notice is hereby given that on March 9, 1995, a proposed Consent 
Decree in United States v. Arrowhead Refining Co. et al., Civil Action 
5-89-202, was lodged with the United States District Court for the 
District of Minnesota. This consent decree represents a settlement of 
claims against 209 parties under the Comprehensive Environmental 
Response, Compensation and Liability Act of 1980, as amended by the 
Superfund Amendments and Reauthorization Act of 1986, 42 U.S.C. 9601 et 
seq. (CERCLA).
    The consent decree requires 44 parties (the Settling Defendants) to 
perform one component of the remedial action (the ``sludge pit'' clean-
up) at the Arrowhead Refining Co. Site (the Site) at an approximate 
cost of $12.52 million. These parties have already spent $6.4 million 
in Site related investigative and response activities. In addition, the 
Settling Defendants are required to pay an additional $134,800 to 
federal and state natural resources trustees for use in habitat 
restoration projects.
    One hundred and sixty-five other parties, including De Minimis and 
De Micromis parties, ``Hardship'' parties, a defunct owner/operator, 
eight federal entities, and several oil company defendants, will 
contribute financially to the Settling Defendants' performance of the 
remedial action.
    This settlement was part of EPA's Mixed Funding Pilot Project. In 
addition to the work to be performed by the Settling Defendants, EPA 
and the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency (MPCA) intend to undertake 
the remaining soils and gourndwater components of the remedial action 
as ``mixed work.'' These portions of the remedy are expected to cost 
approximately $6.35 million and $1.0 million, respectively.
    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 of the Environment and Natural Resources Division, 
Department of Justice, Washington, D.C. 20530, and should refer United 
States v. Arrowhead Refining Co. et al. D.J. Ref. 90-11-3-164.
    The proposed Consent Decree may be examined at the Office of the 
United States Attorney, District of Minnesota, 234 U.S. Courthouse, 110 
South Fourth Street, Minneapolis, Minnesota, at the Region V Office of 
the Environmental Protection Agency, 200 West Adams Street, Chicago, 
Illinois, 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 enclose a check in the amount $26.75 (25 
cents per page reproduction cost) payable to the Consent Decree 
Library.
Joel M. Gross,
Acting Chief, Environmental Enforcement Section, Environment and 
Natural Resources Division.
[FR Doc. 95-6895 Filed 3-20-95; 8:45 am]
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