[Federal Register Volume 60, Number 135 (Friday, July 14, 1995)]
[Notices]
[Pages 36309-36310]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 95-17340]



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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

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

    In accordance with Departmental policy, 28 CFR 50.7, and 42 U.S.C. 
9622(d)(2), notice is hereby given that a proposed consent decree in 
United States v. Olin Corporation, Civil Action No. 95-0256-BH-S was 
lodged on July 5, 1995, with the United States District Court for the 
Southern District of Alabama, Southern Division. This agreement 
resolves a judicial enforcement action brought by the United States 
against Olin Corporation pursuant to Sections 106 and 107 of CERCLA, 42 
U.S.C. 9606 and 9607, for injunctive relief, and for the recovery of 
response costs incurred and to be incurred by the United States in 
connection with the first Operable Unit (``OU1'') at the Olin Chemical/
McIntosh Plant Superfund Site, in McIntosh, Washington County, Alabama.
    Under the proposed Consent Decree, the United States has obtained 
100 percent of its past response costs incurred with respect to 
response actions conducted at OU1, including prejudgment interest, and 
has obtained a commitment for payment of all EPA's future oversight 
costs with respect to OU1. Olin Corporation will also assume full 
responsibility for the remedy to be conducted at OU1 pursuant to the 
Record of Decision executed by EPA on December 16, 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. Olin Corporation, DOJ Ref. # 90-11-2-1001.
    The proposed consent decree may be examined at the office of the 
United States Attorney, 1st Union Building, 1441 Main Street, Suite 
500, Columbia, South Carolina; the Region IV Office of the 
Environmental Protection Agency, 345 Courtland Street NE., Atlanta, 
Georgia 30365; and the Consent Decree 

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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 refer to the 
referenced case and enclose a check in the amount of $18.75 (25 cents 
per page reproduction costs), payable to the Consent Decree Library.
Bruce Gelber,
Acting Chief, Environmental Enforcement Section, Environment and 
Natural Resources Division.
[FR Doc. 95-17340 Filed 7-13-95; 8:45 am]
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