Notice of Lodging of Consent Decree Pursuant to Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA)

DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

Notice of Lodging of Consent Decree Pursuant to Comprehensive

Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA)

In accordance with Section 122(d) of the Comprehensive

Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act, as amended

(CERCLA), 42 U.S.C. Sec. 9622(d), and the policy of the United States

Department of Justice, as provided in 28 CFR 50.7, notice is hereby

given that on November 21, 1994, a proposed Consent Decree in United

States v. Florida Steel Corporation, Civil No. 94-14241, was lodged

with the United States District Court for the Southern District of

Florida. From 1970 until 1982, Florida Steel operated a steel mill and

metal recycling facility on the Site, which is located near Indiantown,

Florida. As a result of these operations, the Site is contaminated with

heavy metals, PCB's and other hazardous substances. The proposed

Consent Decree addresses Operable Unit Two of the Site, which concerns

contaminated groundwater and wetland sediments. Pursuant to Sections

106 and 107(a) of CERCLA, 42 U.S.C. Secs. 9606 and 9607(a), the

Complaint in this action seeks defendant's performance of the remedy

selected by EPA for Operable Unit Two, as well as recovery of all

previously unreinbursed 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 Operable Unit Two.

Florida Steel has agreed in the proposed Consent Decree to (1)

perform the remedy selected by EPA for Operable Unit Two, at a total

estimated cost of $1.2 million, and (2) reimburse the United States for

all of its previously unreimbursed response costs incurred at the Site,

and for all of its future response and oversight costs incurred in

connection with Operable Unit Two. The selected remedy for Operable

Unit Two requires (1) pumping and treatment of contaminated

groundwater, and (2) excavation of contaminated wetland sediments and

solidification of those sediments in an on-Site landfill.

The Department of Justice will receive for a period of thirty (30)

days from the date of this publication comments concerning the proposed

Consent Decree. Comments should be addressed to the Assistant Attorney

General, Environment and Natural Resources Division, U.S. Department of

Justice, P.O. Box 7611, Ben Franklin Station, Washington, D.C., 20044,

and should refer to United States v. Florida Steel Corporation, D.J.

Ref. 90-11-2-833A (Operable Unit Two).

The proposed Consent Decree may be examined at any of the following

offices: (1) The Office of the United States Attorney for the Southern

District of Florida, 99 NE. 4th Street, suite 300, Miami, Florida; (2)

the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Region 4, 345 Courtland

Street, NE., Atlanta, Georgia; and (3) the Consent Decree Library, 1120

G Street, NW., 4th Floor, Washington, DC 20005, (202) 624-0892. Copies

of the proposed Decree may be obtained by mail from the Consent Decree

Library, 1120 G Street, NW., 4th Floor, Washington, DC 20005. For a

copy of the Consent Decree with attachments (Record of Statement of

Work and Site map) please enclose a check for $37.50 ($.25 per page

reproduction charge) payable to ``Consent Decree Library.'' For a copy

of the Consent Decree without those attachments please enclose a check

for $19.00 ($.25 per page reproduction charge) payable to ``Consent

Decree Library.''

Bruce S. Gelber,

Acting Chief, Environmental Enforcement Section, Environment & Natural

Resources Division.

[FR Doc. 94-30830 Filed 12-14-94; 8:45 am]

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