[Federal Register Volume 63, Number 33 (Thursday, February 19, 1998)]
[Notices]
[Page 8475]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 98-4210]


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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE


Notice of Lodging of Consent Decree Under the Comprehensive, 
Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act (``CERCLA'')

    In accordance with Departmental policy, 28 CFR 50.7, notice is 
hereby given that a proposed consent decree in United States v. 
Hillsborough County, Florida, et al. (M.D. Fl.) Civil Action No. 98-
239-CIV-T-25F, was lodged on February 4, 1998, with the United States 
District Court for the Middle District of Florida.
    In this action the United States sought injunctive relief and 
recovery of response costs under Sections 106(a) and 107 of CERCLA, 42 
U.S.C. 9606(a) and 9607, with respect to the Taylor Road Landfill 
Superfund Site in Hillsborough County, Florida (``the Site'') which is 
the location of a solid waste landfill utilized from May 1976 until 
February 1980.
    Under a proposed Consent Decree, Hillsborough County, the past and 
present owner and operator of the Site, and a group of settlors which 
arranged for the disposal of hazardous substances at the site, have 
agreed to perform the remedy chosen by EPA to clean up the Site, pay 
all of the government's future response costs, and pay over 75 percent 
of the government's remaining past response costs, incurred or to be 
incurred for response activities at the 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 Environment and Natural Resources Division, 
Department of Justice, Washington, D.C. 20530, and should refer to 
United States v. Hillsborough County, Florida, et al. (M.D. Fl.) and 
DOJ #90-11-3-1614.
    The proposed consent decree may be examined at the office of the 
United States Attorney, 500 Zack Street, Room 400, Tampa, Florida 
33602; the Region 4 Office of the Environmental Protection Agency, 61 
Forsythe Street, 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 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 refer to 
the referenced case and enclose a check in the amount of $54.75 (25 
cents per page reproduction costs), payable to the Consent Decree 
Library. In requesting a copy exclusive of exhibits, please enclose a 
check for $31.50 (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. 98-4210 Filed 2-18-98; 8:45 am]
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