[Federal Register Volume 68, Number 30 (Thursday, February 13, 2003)]
[Notices]
[Page 7390]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 03-3520]


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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE


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

    In accordance with Departmental policy, 28 U.S.C. 50.7, and in 
accordance with Section 122(d)(2) of CERCLA, 42 U.S.C. 9622(d)(2), 
notice is hereby given that a proposed Consent Decree in United States 
v. ARCO, et al., Civil Action No. 03-0180, was lodged on January, 31, 
2003, with the United States District Court for the Western District of 
Louisiana.
    In this action the United States sought the recovery of its 
response costs that were incurred by the United States Environmental 
Protection Agency in response to releases or threatened releases of 
hazardous substances from the Gulf Coast Vacuum Services Site located 
3.5 miles southwest of Abbeville, Vermillion Parish, Louisiana. The 
Consent Decree settles an action brought under Section 107 of the 
Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act 
(``CERCLA''), 42 U.S.C. 9607. The Consent Decree provides that ARCO, et 
al., will pay the United States $523,970 dollars for response costs 
incurred in conducting a removal action at the Gulf Coast Vacuum 
Services 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, D.C. 20530, and should refer to 
United States v. ARCO, et al.,D.J. Ref. 90-11-2-506/1.
    The proposed Consent Decree may be examined at the office of the 
United States Attorney, Western District of Louisiana, 800 Lafayette 
Street, Suite 2200, Lafayette, Louisiana 70501; the Region VI Office of 
the Environmental Protection Agency, 1445 Ross Avenue, Dallas, Texas. 
During the pubic comment period, the Consent Decree may also be 
examined on the following Department of Justice Web site, http://www.usdoj.gov/enrd/open.html. A copy of the Consent Decree may also be 
obtained by mail from the Consent Decree Library, P. O. Box 7611, U.S. 
Department of Justice, Washington, D.C. 20044-7611, or by faxing or e-
mailing a request to Tonia Fleetwood ([email protected]), fax 
no. (202) 514-0097, phone confirmation number (202) 514-1547. In 
requesting a copy from the Consent Decree Library, please enclose a 
check in the amount of $8.25 (25 cents per page reproduction costs), 
payable to the U.S. Treasury.

Tom Mariani,
Assistant Section Chief, Environmental Enforcement Section, Environment 
and Natural Resources Division.
[FR Doc. 03-3520 Filed 2-12-03; 8:45 am]
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