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. Kalama

Specialty Chemicals Inc. et al., Civil Action No. 9:94-2758-19, was

lodged on October 13, 1994, with the United States District Court for

the District of South Carolina. This agreement resolves a judicial

enforcement action brought by the United States against the defendants

pursuant to Sections 106 and 107 of the Comprehensive Environmental

Response, Compensation, and Liability Act, as amended by the Superfund

Amendments and Reauthorization Act of 1986, Pub. L. 99-499, 42 U.S.C.

Secs. 9606 and 9607, for the cleanup of the KSCI Superfund Site in

Beaufort County, South Carolina, and for the recovery of response costs

incurred and to be incurred by the United States in connection with the

Site.

The consent decree requires the settling defendants to pay 100

percent of the past and future response costs which the United States

has incurred and will incur at the Site. The settling defendants have

also agreed under the decree to perform the final remedy for the Site

which EPA set forth in its Record of Decision dated September 28, 1993,

and which provides for excavation, treatment, and on-site disposal of

contaminated soils, and extraction and treatment of contaminated

groundwater across 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, D.C. 20530, and should refer to

United States v. Kalama Specialty Chemicals Inc. et al., DOJ Ref. #90-

11-2-915.

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

United States Attorney, 324 West Market Street, Greensboro, North

Carolina 27402; the Region IV Office of the Environmental Protection

Agency, 345 Courtland Street, N.E., Atlanta, Georgia 30365; and at the

Consent Decree Library, 1120 G Street, N.W., 4th Floor, Washington,

D.C. 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, N.W., 4th Floor, Washington, D.C. 20005. In requesting a copy

please refer to the referenced case and enclose a check in the amount

of $50.75 (25 cents per page reproduction costs), payable to the

Consent Decree Library.

Bruce Gelber,

Acting Chief, Environmental Enforcement Section, Environment and

Natural Resources Division.

[FR Doc. 94-26297 Filed 10-21-94; 8:45 am]

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