[Federal Register Volume 75, Number 228 (Monday, November 29, 2010)]
[Notices]
[Pages 73130-73131]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2010-30027]


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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE


Notice of Lodging of Consent Decree and Environmental Settlement 
under the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and 
Liability Act, and the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act

    Notice is hereby given that on November 23, 2010, a proposed 
Consent Decree and Environmental Settlement Agreement (``Settlement 
Agreement'') in the matter of In re: Tronox Incorporated, et al., Case 
No.09-10156 (ALG) (Jointly Administered), was lodged with the United 
States Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York.
    The parties to the proposed Settlement Agreement are Tronox 
Incorporated, and fourteen of its affiliates (collectively, ``Tronox'' 
or ``Debtors''), the United States, the Navajo Nation, twenty-two 
states, and several municipalities (collectively, the ``Governmental 
Environmental Claimants''). The proposed Settlement Agreement creates 
five environmental response trusts and provides for Tronox to pay $270 
million and certain other consideration to the environmental response 
trusts and Governmental Environmental Claimants. Additionally, Tronox 
is to assign its rights in a pending fraudulent conveyance lawsuit 
against its former parent, Kerr-McGee Corporation, and Anadarko 
Petroleum Corporation, which purchased Kerr-McGee, to a litigation 
trust that will pay 88% of its net recoveries to the environmental 
response trusts and Governmental Environmental Claimaints. The 
fraudulent conveyance lawsuit alleges that Kerr-McGee and Anadarko 
defrauded Tronox and its creditors, including the United States, by 
imposing on Tronox all of Kerr-McGee's environmental liabilities 
without sufficient means to satisfy those liabilities.
    The Settlement Agreement resolves certain environmental liabilities 
of the Debtors to the Governmental Environmental Claimants at more than 
2000 sites and indicates the amount of cash and percentage of net 
recoveries from the fraudulent conveyance action that will be provided 
by site. Among the sites included in the settlement are:
The Mobile Pigment Complex, Mobile, AL
The former Petroleum Terminal Site, Birmingham, AL
The Jacksonville AgChem Site, Jacksonville, FL
The former titanium dioxide Plant, Savannah, GA
The Rare Earths Facility, W. Chicago, IL
The Kress Creek and Residential Areas Sites, W. Chicago, IL
The Lindsay Light Thorium Sites, Chicago, IL
The former wood treating facility, Madison, IL
The Soda Springs Vanadium Plant, Soda Springs, ID
The former wood treating facility, Columbus, MS
The former wood treating facility, Hattiesburg, MS
The Navassa wood treating Site, Wilmington, NC
The Henderson Facility, Henderson, NV
The former wood treating facility, Bossier City, LA
The Calhoun Gas Plant Site, Calhoun, LA
The Fireworks Site, Hanover, MA
The former nuclear fuels facility, Cimarron, OK
The Cleveland Refinery Site, Cleveland, OK

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The Cushing Refinery Sites, Cushing, OK
The Corpus Christi Petrol Terminal Site, CC, TX
The former wood treating facility, Texarkana, TX
The former wood treating facility, Kansas City, MO
The former wood treating facility, Springfield, MO
The former wood treating facility, Rome, NY
The former wood treating facility, Avoca, PA
The Riley Pass Mine Site, Harding County, SD
The former wood treating facility, Indianapolis, IN more than 50 former 
uranium mines and mills, including Shiprock, Churchrock, and Ambrosia 
Lake on and in the vicinity of Navajo Nation, NM, AZ
The White King/Lucky Lass mine site, Lakeview, OR
The Toledo Tie Site, Toledo, OH
The Welsbach Gas and Mantle Site, Camden, NJ
The former Federal Creosote facility, Manville, NJ
The former Moss American Site, Milwaukee, WI more than 1800 current and 
former service stations in twenty-four states
    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 and Settlement Agreement. Comments should be addressed to the 
Assistant Attorney General, Environment and Natural Resources Division, 
and either e-mailed to [email protected] or mailed to P.O. 
Box 7611, U.S. Department of Justice, Washington, DC 20044-7611, and 
should refer to In re Tronox, Incorporated et al., D.J. Ref. 90-11-3-
09688. Commenters may request an opportunity for a public meeting in 
the affected area, in accordance with section 7003(d) of RCRA,42 U.S.C. 
6973(d).
    The Consent Decree and Settlement Agreement may be examined at the 
Office of the United States Attorney, 86 Chambers Street--3rd Floor, 
New York, New York 10007. During the public comment period, the Consent 
Decree and Settlement Agreement may also be examined on the following 
Department of Justice Web site: http://www.usdoj.gov/enrd/Consent_Decrees.html. A copy of the Consent Decree and Settlement Agreement 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 $53.25 (213 pages, 
exclusive of signature pages and attachments; 25 cents per page 
reproduction cost) or $123.75 (495 pages, including signatures and 
attachments) payable to the U.S. Treasury or, if by e-mail or fax, 
forward a check in that amount to the Consent Decree Library at the 
stated address.

Maureen M. Katz,
Assistant Chief, Environmental Enforcement Section, Environment and 
Natural Resources Division.
[FR Doc. 2010-30027 Filed 11-26-10; 8:45 am]
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