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, notice is

hereby given that a proposed consent decree in United States v.

Chemical Waste Management of Kansas, Inc., Civil Action No. 94-1149-

MLB, was lodged on April 18, 1994 with the United States District Court

for the District of Kansas. Chemical Waste Management of Kansas, Inc.

(Chem Waste) is a Kansas corporation that owns the NIES Site,

encompassing approximately 80 Acres, located in Sedgwick County,

Kansas. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) incurred and

continues to incur costs in overseeing remedial action at the Site

undertaken by NIES pursuant to two administrative orders on consent.

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. Chemical Waste Management of Kansas, Inc., DOJ Ref. #90-11-3-

1223.

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

United States Attorney, 401 Market Street, Wichita, Kansas 67202; the

Region VII Office of the Environmental Protection Agency, 726 Minnesota

Avenue, Kansas City, Kansas 66101; 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 $6.25 (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. 94-13082 Filed 5-26-94; 8:45 am]

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