[Federal Register Volume 67, Number 5 (Tuesday, January 8, 2002)]
[Notices]
[Page 918]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 02-360]


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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. 
Phillips Petroleum Company, et al., No. 3:00-CV-620-J-25c (M.D. Fla.) 
was lodged on November 19, 2001, with the United Stated District Court 
for the Middle District of Florida. The consent decree settles the 
United States' claims against numerous defendants, as well as 
counterclaims and third party claims against the United States, under 
sections 107 and 113 of the Comprehensive Environmental Response, 
Compensation, and Liability Act (``CERCLA''), 42 U.S.C. 9607 and 9613, 
for past response costs incurred in connection the Bill Johns Waste Oil 
Superfund Site in Jacksonville, Florida. Under the proposed decree the 
defendants, and the United States as a counter defendant, would 
reimburse the Superfund $1,450,000.00 out of $2,611,662.86 in past 
costs. The contribution of the settling federal agencies is 
$140,184.00.
    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 the 
United States v. Phillips Petroleum Company et al., No. 3:00-CV-620-J-
25c (M.D. Fla.) and DOJ# 90-11-3-07139.
    The proposed consent decree may be examined at the office of the 
United States Attorney, Middle District of Florida 200 W. Forsyth 
Street, Suite 700 Jacksonville, Florida 32201 and the Region 4 Office 
of the Environmental Protection Agency, 61 Forsyth Street, SW., 
Atlanta, GA 30303. A copy of the proposed consent decree may also be 
obtained by mail from the Consent Decree Library, PO Box 7611, 
Washington, DC 20044-7611. In requesting a copy please refer to the 
referenced case and enclose a check in the amount of $7.00 (25 cents 
per page reproduction costs), payable to the Consent Decree Library.

Ellen M. Mahan,
Assistant Section Chief, Environmental Enforcement Section, Environment 
and Natural Resources Division.
[FR Doc. 02-360 Filed 1-7-02; 8:45 am]
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