[Federal Register Volume 65, Number 72 (Thursday, April 13, 2000)]
[Notices]
[Pages 19927-19928]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 00-9159]


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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 on March 24, 2000 a proposed consent decree in Civil 
Action No. 00-T-363-N was lodged with the United States District Court 
for the Middle District of Alabama, Northern Division.
    In this action the United states sought injunctive relief and 
recovery of future response costs under sections 106(a) and 107 of 
CERCLA, 42 U.S.C. 9606(a) and 9607, with respect to the TH Agriculture 
& Nutrition Superfund Site in Montgomery, Alabama (``the Site'').
    Under a proposed consent Decree, TH Agriculture & Nutrition, L.L.C, 
the present owner and operator of the Site, Astro Packaging Inc., the 
present owner and former operator, Elf-Atochem North America Inc., and 
Industrial Chemicals Inc., former owner and operators of the Site, have 
agreed to perform the remedy chosen by EPA to clean up the Site, pay 
the government's future response costs in settlement of the 
government's claims under Sections 106 and 107 of CERCLA, 42 U.S.C. 
9606 and 9607.
    The Department of Justice will receive, for a period for 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

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Environment and Natural Resources Division, Department of Justice, 
Washington, DC 20044-7611, and should refer to United States v. TH 
Agriculture & Nutrition, L.L.C Elf Atochem North America Inc., 
Industrial Chemicals Inc., and Astro Packaging, Inc. (M.D. AL), DOJ # 
90-1-3-1426/1.
    The proposed consent decree may be examined at the Office of the 
United States Attorney, Montgomery, Alabama, the Region 4 Office of the 
Environmental Protection Agency, 61 Forsyth Street, Atlanta, Georgia 
30303, and at the Consent Decree Library, Post Office Box 7611, 
Washington, DC 20044-7611. A copy of the proposed consent decree may be 
obtained by mail from the Consent Decree Library, Post Office Box 7611, 
Washington, DC 20044-7611. In requesting a copy please refer to the 
referenced case and enclose a check in the amount of 25 cents per page 
for reproduction costs, payable to the Consent Decree Library.

Joel M. Gross,
Chief, Environmental Enforcement Section, Environment and Natural 
Resources Division.
[FR Doc. 00-9159 Filed 4-12-00; 8:45 am]
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