[Federal Register Volume 61, Number 153 (Wednesday, August 7, 1996)]
[Notices]
[Page 41182]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 96-20089]


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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 Sec. 50.7, notice is 
hereby given that, on or about July 29, 1996, a proposed Consent Decree 
in United States v. Russell Martin Bliss, et al., Civil No. 89-375C-1, 
was lodged with the United States District Court for the Eastern 
District of Missouri. The Decree represents a settlement with landowner 
defendant Antimony Corporation of claims under Sections 106 and 107 of 
the Comprehensive Environmental Response Compensation and Liability Act 
(CERCLA), 42 U.S.C. 9606 and 9607, arising out of the release by 
Russell Martin Bliss of the hazardous substance dioxin at the East 
Texas Motor Freight Company Site, located at 119 Douglas Street in St. 
Louis, Missouri. Civil No. 89-357C-1 is one of the consolidated actions 
known collectively as the Missouri Dioxin Litigation, which was brought 
by the United States to obtain injunctive relief and recover response 
costs arising out of the release of dioxin at 28 sites in eastern 
Missouri. The East Texas Motor Freight Company Site is one of those 28 
sites.
    Under the settlement, Antimony will reimburse the Hazardous Waste 
Trust Fund (the Superfund) $300,000 and will assure continued access to 
the Site to the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
    The Department of Justice will receive for a period of thirty (30) 
days from the date of this publication comments relating to the 
proposed 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 to United States 
v. Russell Martin Bliss, et al., Civil No. 89-357C-1, D.J. Ref. 90-11-
2-41.
    The proposed Consent Decree may be examined at the Office of the 
United States Attorney, Eastern District of Missouri, 1114 Market 
Street, St. Louis, Missouri 63101; EPA-Region VII's offices at 726 
Minnesota Avenue, Kansas City, Missouri 66101; 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 
enclose a check in the amount of $7.75 (25 cents per page reproduction 
cost) payable to the Consent Decree Library.
Bruce S. Gelber,
Deputy Chief, Environmental Enforcement Section, Environment and 
Natural Resources Division.
[FR Doc. 96-20089 Filed 8-6-96; 8:45 am]
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