[Federal Register Volume 61, Number 55 (Wednesday, March 20, 1996)]
[Notices]
[Pages 11431-11432]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 96-6613]



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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), as amended, 42 U.S.C. 
Sec. 9622(d)(2), notice is hereby given that a proposed consent decree 
in United States v. Chevron Chemical Company, et al., Civil Action No. 
7:96-CV-20, was lodged on March 8, 1996, with the United States 
District Court for the Middle District of Georgia. Under the proposed 
consent decree, the settling defendants, Chevron Chemical and Kova 
Fertilizer, will reimburse the United States $376,170.40 for its past 
response costs incurred at the Marzone/Chevron Chemical Superfund Site 
in Tifton, Georgia. Settling Defendants will also implement most of the 
Remedial Design and Remedial Action for Operable Unit One of the Site, 
at an estimated cost of $5.2 million. In particular, they will conduct 
the complete Remedial Design and Remedial Action for the contaminated 
soils and prepare a preliminary Remedial Design for mediation of the 
contaminated groundwater. Settling defendants will also fully reimburse 
EPA for its past and future response costs in connection with Operable 
Unit One.
    This action is brought pursuant to Sections 106 and 107 of CERCLA, 
42 U.S.C. Secs. 9606 and 9607. The settling defendants are past owners 
or operators of the Site, which was used for the formulation of 
pesticides.
    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. Chevron Chemical Company, et al., DOJ Ref. 
#90-11-3-274.
    The proposed consent decree may be examined at the office of the 
United States Attorney, 433 Cherry Street, Fourth Floor, Macon, Georgia 
31202; the Office of Regional Counsel, Region IV, Environmental 
Protection Agency, 345 Courtland Street, N.E., Atlanta, Georgia; and at 
the Environmental Enforcement Section Consent Decree Library, 1120 G 
Street, N.W., 4th Floor, Washington,

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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 
of the Decree, please refer to the referenced case and enclose a check 
in the amount of $19.50 (25 cents per page reproduction costs), payable 
to the Consent Decree Library. For a copy of the Decree with all of the 
attachments (Record of Decision for Operable Unit One, Statement of 
Work, and Site Map), please refer to the referenced case and enclose a 
check in the amount of $37.50 (25 cents per page reproduction costs), 
payable to the Consent Decree Library.
Joel Gross,
Chief, Environmental Enforcement Section, Environment and Natural 
Resources Division.
[FR Doc. 96-6613 Filed 3-19-96; 8:45 am]
BILLING CODE 4410-01-M