[Federal Register Volume 63, Number 188 (Tuesday, September 29, 1998)]
[Notices]
[Page 51951]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 98-26019]


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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE


Notice of Lodging of Consent Decree Pursuant to the Comprehensive 
Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act, 42 U.S.C. 9601 
et seq.

    In accordance with Departmental policy, 28 CFR 50.7, and 42 U.S.C. 
9622(d)(2), notice is hereby given that a third proposed consent decree 
in United States v. Reilly Industries, Inc., Civil Action No. IP-93-
1045-C, was lodged on August 27, 1998, with the United States District 
Court for the Southern District of Indiana.
    The proposed Consent Decree concerns the Reilly Tar and Chemical 
Superfund Site (``Site''), which is located on approximately 120 acres 
at 1500 South Tibbs Avenue, in Indianapolis, Indiana. Pursuant to the 
proposed consent decree and section 106 of the Comprehensive 
Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act (``CERCLA''), 42 
U.S.C. 9606, Reilly Industries will implement all Remedial Design and 
Remedial Action activities needed to implement the Third, Fourth and 
Fifth Operable Unit remedies at the Site. The remedies include Soil 
Vapor Extraction (``SVE'') treatment of contaminated soils, placement 
of appropriate final covers over all remaining soil contamination at 
the property, recording of use restrictions on the property as an 
institutional control, as well as continued pumping and treatment of 
ground water until cleanup standards are attained. Reilly Industries 
will also pay the United States for unreimbursed past costs at the 
Site, pursuant to section 107(a) of CERCLA, 42 U.S.C. 9607(a), in the 
amount of $171,159.29 and will pay all future response costs incurred 
in connection with 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, DC 20530, and should refer to United 
States v. Reilly Industries, Inc., DOJ Ref. 90-11-2-1273.
    The proposed consent decree may be examined at the Office of the 
United States Attorney, United States Courthouse, 5th Floor, 46 East 
Ohio Street, Indianapolis, Indiana 46204; the Region V Office of the 
Environmental Protection Agency, 77 West Jackson Blvd., Chicago, 
Illinois 60604; and at the Consent Decree Library, 1120 G Street, NW., 
3rd 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., 3rd Floor, Washington, DC 20005. In 
requesting a copy please refer to the referenced case and enclose a 
check (25 cents per page reproduction costs) in the amount of $23.75 
for the consent decree only (95 pages) or $82.50 for the consent decree 
plus appendix (330 pages), payable to the Consent Decree Library.
Bruce Gelber,
Deputy Chief Environmental Enforcement Section.
[FR Doc. 98-26019 Filed 9-28-98; 8:45 am]
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