[Federal Register Volume 61, Number 226 (Thursday, November 21, 1996)]
[Notices]
[Pages 59242-59243]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 96-29741]


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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

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

    Notice is hereby given that two proposed consent decrees in United 
States v. Farmer Oil, et al., Civil Action No. 95-CV-3231, were lodged 
on November 1, 1996, with the United States District Court for the 
Northern District of Georgia. The consent decrees settle claims against 
separate defendants brought under Section 107(a) of the Comprehensive 
Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (``CERCLA''), 
42 U.S.C. Sec. 9607(a), for response costs incurred by the United 
States at the Daytona Antifreeze site (the ``Daytona site'') in 
Marietta, Georgia. Under the proposed consent decrees, defendants 
Watkins Omega, Inc. (``Watkins'') and Enterprise Waste Oil, Inc. 
(``Enterprise'') will pay $25,000 and $20,000, respectively, to the 
United States in reimbursement of response

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costs incurred by the Environmental Protection Agency (``EPA'') in 
connection with the Daytona site. EPA has incurred costs in excess of 
$357,000 in connection with the Daytona site. Efforts to secure 
additional reimbursement continue against several other defendants 
named in the lawsuit.
    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 decrees. 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. Farmer Oil, et al., DOJ Ref. #90-11-2-1145A.
    The proposed consent decrees may be examined at the office of the 
United States Attorney, Richard Russell Federal Building, Suite 1800, 
75 Spring Street, S.W., Atlanta, Georgia 30335; the Region 4 Office of 
the Environmental Protection Agency, 100 Alabama St., S.W., Atlanta, 
Georgia 30303; and at the Consent Decree Library, 1120 G Street, N.W., 
4th Floor, Washington, D.C. 20005, (202) 624-0892. A copy of either 
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 either decree please refer to the 
referenced case and enclose a check in the amount of $4.00 (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. 96-29741 Filed 11-20-96; 8:45 am]
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