[Federal Register Volume 63, Number 17 (Tuesday, January 27, 1998)]
[Notices]
[Pages 3921-3922]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 98-1919]


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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 consent decree in United States v. Young 
Refining Company, Civil Action No. 1-96-CV-1002-JEC, was lodged on 
December 31, 1997, with the United States District Court for the 
Northern District of Georgia. The consent decree settles a claim 
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 Basket 
Creek Drum Disposal site (the ``Basket Creek site'') in

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Douglasville, Georgia. Under the proposed consent decree, Continental 
Trading Company and Dr. Fred W.J. Liu will pay $67,500 to the United 
States in reimbursement of response costs incurred by the Environmental 
Protection Agency (``EPA'') in connection with the Basket Creek site. 
Most of the removal of hazardous substances from the Basket Creek Site 
was conducted by Chem-Nuclear Systems, Inc. EPA has incurred costs of 
approximately $678,000 in connection with the Basket Creek Site.
    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 Environmental and Natural Resources Division, 
Department of Justice, Washington, DC 20530, and should refer to United 
States v. Young Refining Company, DOJ Ref. #90-11-2-755.
    The proposed consent decree may be examined at the office of the 
United States Attorney, Richard Russell Federal Building, Suite 1800, 
75 Spring Street, SW., Atlanta, Georgia 30335; the Region 4 Office of 
the Environmental Protection Agency, 61 Forsythe St., SE., Atlanta, 
Georgia 30303; and at the Consent Decree Library, 1120 G Street, NW., 
4th Floor, Washington, DC 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, NW., 4th Floor, Washington, DC 20005. In 
requesting a copy please refer to the referenced case and enclose a 
check in the amount of $4.50 (25 cents per page reproduction costs), 
payable to the Consent Decree Library.
Walker B. Smith,
Deputy Chief, Environmental Enforcement Section, Environment and 
Natural Resources Division.
[FR Doc. 98-1919 Filed 1-26-98; 8:45 am]
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