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

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, and 42 U.S.C.

9622(d)(2), notice is hereby given that a proposed consent decree in

United States v. Bridgestone/Firestone, Inc., et al., Civil Action No.

94-56-2-ALB-AMER(DS), was lodged on April 25, 1994 with the United

States District Court for the Middle District of Georgia. The proposed

Consent Decree concerns the Firestone Tire and Rubber Co. Superfund

Site (the ``Site'') near Albany, Georgia. The Site involves soils and

groundwater contaminated by PCBs and other hazardous substances. The

Albany-Dougherty Payroll Authority has owned the Site since 1967. From

1968 until 1986, Firestone Tire and Rubber Co. manufactured tires at

this location, during which operations it contaminated the Site with

heavy metals, PCBs and other hazardous substances. Bridgestone/

Firestone (``B/F'') is the corporate successor to Firestone Tire and

Rubber Co. Pursuant to sections 106 and 107(a) of the Comprehensive

Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act, as amended by

the Superfund Amendments and Reauthorization Act of 1986, Public Law

No. 99-499, 42 U.S.C. 9696 and 9607(a), the Complaint in this action

seeks performance of the remedy selected by EPA, as well as recovery of

all past response costs incurred by the United States at the Site and

of all future and oversight costs to be incurred by the United States

in connection with the Site.

B/F has agreed in the proposed Consent Decree to (1) perform the

remedy selected by EPA at a total estimated cost of $2 million, and (2)

reimburse the United States for all of its past response costs incurred

at the Site ($348,333.04), and all of its future response and oversight

costs. The selected remedy requires excavation and off-site disposal of

the contaminated soils and the extraction and treatment of contaminated

groundwater. In the proposed Consent Decree, The Albany-Dougherty

Payroll Development Authority has agreed to provide access to the Site,

record deed restrictions, and impose institutional controls on the

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, DC 20530, and should refer to United

States v. Bridgestone/Firestone, Inc., et al., DOJ Ref. #90-11-3-1130.

The proposed consent decree may be examined at the office of the

United States Attorney for the Middle District of Georgia, 433 Cherry

Street, 4th Floor, Macon, Georgia; the Environmental Protection Agency,

Region 4, 345 Courtland Street NE., Atlanta, Georgia; and at the

Consent Decree Library, 1120 G Street NW., 4th Floor, Washington, DC

20005, (202) 624-0892.

A copy of the proposed consent decree may be obtained in person or

by mail from the Consent Decree Library, 1120 G Street, NW., 4th Floor,

Washington, DC 20005. In requesting a copy please refer to the

referenced case and enclose a check in the amount of $54.00 (25 cents

per page reproduction costs), payable to the Consent Decree Library.

John C. Cruden,

Chief, Environmental Enforcement Section, Environment and Natural

Resources Division.

[FR Doc. 94-11807 Filed 5-13-94; 8:45 am]

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