[Federal Register Volume 61, Number 49 (Tuesday, March 12, 1996)]
[Notices]
[Pages 10010-10011]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 96-5775]



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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 CFR 50.7, notice is 
hereby given that a proposed Modification to a consent decree in United 
State and State of Washington Department of Ecology v. City of Tacoma, 
Civil Action No. C89-583T, was lodged on February 27, 1996 with the 
United States District Court for the Western District of Washington. 
The proposed Modification adds language to the consent decree which 
settles a dispute about measures which must be taken by the City to 
maintain minimum flows in a creek which has been affected by the 
removal

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of groundwater by the City in the context of the remediation of 
groundwater contaminated or threatened with contamination by hazardous 
substances from the Tacoma Landfill Superfund Site. The existing 
consent decree, entered in May, 1991, settled an action brought under 
the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability 
Act of 1980, 42 U.S.C. 9601 et seq., to compel the City to address 
releases or threats of releases of hazardous substances at the Tacoma 
Landfill Superfund Site in Tacoma, Washington, and to reimburse the 
United States for costs of removal or remedial actions at that Site.
    The Department of Justice will receive, for a period of twenty (20) 
days from the date of this publication, comments relating to the 
proposed modification to the 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 and State of Washington 
Department of Ecology v. City of Tacoma, DOJ Ref. #90-11-2-381.
    The proposed modification to the consent decree may be examined at 
the office of the United States Attorney, 3600 Seafirst Fifth Avenue 
Plaza, 800 Fifth Avenue, Seattle, Washington 98104; the Region X Office 
of the Environmental Protection Agency, 1200 Sixth Avenue, Seattle, 
Washington 98101; and at the Consent Decree Library, 1120 G Street, 
N.W., 4th Floor, Washington, D.C. 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, N.W., 4th Floor, Washington, 
D.C. 20005. In requesting a copy please refer to the referenced case 
and enclose a check in the amount of $44.55 (25 cents per page 
reproduction costs), payable to the Consent Decree Library.
Joel M. Gross,
Chief, Environmental Enforcement Section, Environment and Natural 
Resources Division.
[FR Doc. 96-5775 Filed 3-11-96; 8:45 am]
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