[Federal Register Volume 65, Number 93 (Friday, May 12, 2000)]
[Notices]
[Page 30609]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 00-12036]


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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 April 28, 2000 a proposed Amendment Consent Decree 
in Civil Action No. 99-2673-Civ-T-24B was lodged 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 Stauffer Chemical 
Superfund Site in Tarpon Springs, Florida (``the Site'').
    Under the proposed Amended Consent Decree, Atkemix Thirty-Seven, 
Inc., the present owner and operator of the Site, and Aventis 
CropScience USA, Inc., formerly Rhone-Poulenc Ag Company, Inc., the 
former owner and operator of the Site, have agreed to perform the 
remedy chosen by EPA to clean up the Site, pay the government's 
remaining past response costs, and pay 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 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. 20044-7611, and should refer to 
Untied States v. Atkemix Thirty-Seven, Inc., and Rhone-Poulenc Ag. 
Company, Inc., (M.D. FI.) DOJ# 90-11-2-1227/1.
    The proposed consent decree may be examined at the Office of the 
United States Attorney, 400 North Tampa Street, Suite 3200, Tampa, 
Florida 33602, the Region 4 Office of the Environmental Protection 
Agency, 61 Forsythe Street, Atlanta, Georgia 30303, and at the Consent 
Decree Libra, 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 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. 00-12036 Filed 5-11-00; 8:45 am]
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