[Federal Register Volume 67, Number 36 (Friday, February 22, 2002)]
[Notices]
[Page 8320]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 02-4313]


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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE


Notice of Lodging of a Consent Decree Pursuant to the 
Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act

    Notice is hereby given that a proposed consent decree in United 
States v. Tennessee Farmers Cooperative et. al., Civil Action Number 3-
02-0132-Nixon was lodged on February 8, 2002, with the United States 
District Court for Middle District of Tennessee, Nashville Division. 
The proposed Consent Decree would resolve certain claims under sections 
107 of the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and 
Liability Act of 1980, 42 U.S.C. 9606 & 9607, as amended brought 
against Tennessee Farmers Cooperative, Scott Fetzer Company, 
Multimedia, Inc. and R.T. Rivers to recover response costs incurred by 
the Environmental Protection Agency in connection with the release of 
hazardous substances at the Wrigley Charcoal Superfund Site (``site'') 
in Wrigley, Hickman County, Tennessee. The United States alleges that 
Settling Defendants are liable either as persons who currently own or 
owned a portion of the Site at the time of disposal of a hazardous 
substance or as persons who arranged for the disposal of hazardous 
substances at the Site. Under the proposed Consent Decree, the Settling 
Defendants will pay $860,000 to the Hazardous Substances Superfund to 
reimburse the United States for response costs incurred and to be 
incurred at the Site. In addition, the proposed Consent Decree also 
resolves Settling Defendants' potential claims against the Department 
of Defense (``DOD'') in exchange for DOD's reimbursement to EPA of 
$450,000.
    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, P.O. Box 7611, Washington, DC 20530, and should 
refer to United States v. Tennessee Farmers Cooperative et. al., Civil 
Action number 3-02-0132-Nixon, DOJ Ref. #90-11-3-06823.
    The Consent Decree may be examined at the Region 4 Office of the 
Environmental Protection Agency, 61 Forsyth Street, Atlanta, GA 30303 
and the United States Attorney's Office for the Middle District of 
Tennessee, 110 Ninth Avenue South, Suite A961, Nashville, TN 37203 c/o 
Assistant U.S. Attorney Michael Roden. A copy of the proposed consent 
decree may be obtained by mail from the Consent Decree Library, Post 
Office Box 7611, Washington, DC 20044. In requesting copies please 
refer to the referenced case and enclose a check in the amount of 
$12.00 (25 cents per page reproduction costs), payable to the Consent 
Decree Library.

Ellen Mahan,
Environmental Enforcement Section, Assistant Section Chief, Environment 
and Natural Resources Division.
[FR Doc. 02-4313 Filed 2-21-02; 8:45 am]
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