[Federal Register Volume 69, Number 170 (Thursday, September 2, 2004)]
[Notices]
[Page 53737]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 04-19978]


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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE


Notice of Lodging of Consent Decree Under the Comprehensive 
Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980

    Under 28 CFR 50.7, notice is hereby given that on July 26, 2004, a 
proposed consent decree in United States v. Leonard Chemical Company, 
Inc. et al., Civil Action No. 0 04 2479 10, was lodged with the United 
States District Court for the District of South Carolina.
    In this action the United States sought under Sections 106 and 107 
of the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and 
Liability Act, 42 U.S.C. Sec. Sec.  9606 and 9607 injunctive relief 
against the defendants Leonard Chemical Company, Inc. and its 
president, Lawrence K. Leonard, as the alleged owner operator of a 
hazardous waste facility known as the Leonard Chemical Company, Inc. 
Superfund Site (``the Site'') located in York County, South Carolina, 
and 11 corporate defendants, General Electric Company, Coleman Cable, 
Inc., K2, Inc., BASF Corporation Company, Inc., State Line Printing 
Company, Inc., Textron, Inc., Rexham, Inc., DMC, Inc., Springs 
Industries, Inc., and The Stanley Works, generators who are alleged to 
have arranged for their respective waste containing hazardous 
substances to be disposed of by the subject facility, for the 
remediation and cleanup of pollution released into the soil and 
groundwater at the Site. In addition, the federal government sought to 
recover from the defendants, the costs incurred by the federal 
government in addressing the release of hazardous substances at the 
facility. The proposed consent decree provides that the corporate 
generators will implement a Remedial Design/Remedial Action (``RD/RA'') 
selected by the United States Environmental Protection Agency, Region 4 
to address impacted soils and groundwater at a facility and the owner 
operator will implement necessary institutional restrictions required 
under the RD/RA. Additionally, the corporate generators have also 
agreed under the proposed consent decree to pay EPA's past costs.
    The Department of Justice will receive for a period of thirty (30) 
days from the date of this publication comments relating to the consent 
decree. Comments should be addressed to the Assistant Attorney General, 
Environment and Natural Resources Division, P.O. Box 7611, U.S. 
Department of Justice, Washington, DC 20044-7611, and should refer to 
United States v. Leonard Chemical Company, Inc. et al., D.J. Ref. No. 
90-11-2-1174.
    The consent decree may be examined at the Office of the United 
States Attorney, 1st Union Bldg., 1441 Main Street Suite 500, Columbia, 
South Carolina 29201, and at U.S. EPA Region 461 Forsyth Street, SW., 
Atlanta, GA 30303-8960. During the public 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, DC 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 $83.75 for the consent 
decree and its exhibits (25 cents per page reproduction cost) payable 
to the U.S. Treasury. A copy of the consent decree exclusive of any 
exhibits may be obtained for $26.05.

Ellen Mahan,
Assistant Chief, Environmental Enforcement Section, Environment and 
Natural Resources Division.
[FR Doc. 04-19978 Filed 9-1-04; 8:45 am]
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