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 C.F.R. Sec. 50.7, and

Section 122(d)(2) of the Comprehensive Environmental Response,

Compensation, and Liability Act (``CERCLA''), 42 U.S.C.

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

in United States v. American National Petroleum Co. et. al., Civil

Action No. CV 94-2357, was lodged on December 23, 1994, with the United

States District Court for the Western District of Louisiana.

The proposed consent decree settles the government's claims set

forth in the complaint pursuant to Sections 106 and 107 of CERCLA, 42

U.S.C. Secs. 9606, 9607, or injunctive relief to abate an imminent and

substantial endangerment to the public health, welfare or the

environment because of actual or threatened releases of hazardous

substances from a facility known as the ``Gulf Coast Vacuum Site''

located in Abbeville, Vermilion Parish, Louisiana and for the recovery

of response costs incurred by the United States in connection with a

response action taken at that facility. The complaint alleges, inter

alia, that the defendants are each [[Page 4447]] persons who were

generators of hazardous substances which were disposed of at the

facility, and that the United States has incurred and will continue to

incur costs in response to the release or threat of release of

hazardous substances from the Site.

Under the terms of the proposed consent decree, the defendants

agree to fund and implement a remedy at the Gulf Coast Vacuum Site

which includes the destruction of organic materials to performance

standards as more specifically set forth in the Statement of Work which

is appended to the proposed consent decree. In addition, the defendants

agree to pay all future response costs incurred by the United States

which exceed amounts recovered from de minimis settlors under a

separate De Minimis Administrative Order 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. American National Petroleum Company, et. al., DOJ Ref. # 90-

11-2-506B.

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

United States Attorney, Western District of Louisiana, United States

Courthouse, 300 Fannin St., Suite 3201, Shreveport, LA 71101; the

Region VI Office of the Environmental Protection Agency, 1445 Ross

Avenue, Suite 1200, Dallas, Texas 75502; and at the Consent Decree

Library, 1120 G Street, NW., 4th Floor Washington, DC 20005, (202) 624-

0892. A copy of 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 $24.75 (25

cents per page reproduction costs), payable to the Consent Decree

Library.

Bruce S. Gelber,

Acting Chief, Environmental Enforcement Section, Environment and

Natural Resources Divisions.

[FR Doc. 95-1557 Filed 1-20-95; 8:45 am]

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