[Federal Register Volume 62, Number 45 (Friday, March 7, 1997)]
[Notices]
[Pages 10579-10580]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 97-5593]


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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 three proposed consent decrees in 
United States v. Farmer Oil, et al., Civil Action No. 95-CV-3231, were 
lodged on February 14, 1997, 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. 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, defendant 
Houghton International, Inc. (``Houghton'') will pay $133,000 to the 
United States in reimbursement of response costs incurred by the 
Environmental Protection Agency (``EPA'') in connection with the 
Daytona site, while defendants Farmer Oil Company, Inc. (``Farmer'') 
and American Environmental Contractors, Inc. (``American'') will each 
pay $20,000 in reimbursement. EPA has incurred costs in excess of 
$357,000 in connection with the Daytona site.

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Previous settlements with defendants Watkins Omega, Inc. and Enterprise 
Waste Oil Company, Inc. have secured $45,000 in reimbursement.
    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 Street, 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 the 
proposed consent decrees 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 $3.50 for the Consent Decree 
between the U.S. and Houghton International; $3.75 for the Consent 
Decree between the U.S. and American Environmental Contractors, Inc.; 
and $4.00 for the Consent Decree between the U.S. and Farmer Oil, Inc. 
(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. 97-5593 Filed 3-6-97; 8:45 am]
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