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

DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

Notice of Lodging of Consent Decree Pursuant to the Comprehensive

Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA)

In accordance with Departmental policy, 28 C.F.R. 50.7, and 42

U.S.C. 9622(d)(2), notice is hereby given that a proposed consent

decree in United States v. Monsanto Company, et al., Civil Action No.

3:92-0961-19, was lodged on July 3, 1995, 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 Section 107 of the Comprehensive

Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act, 42 U.S.C.

9607, for the recovery of response costs incurred and to be incurred by

the United States in connection with the Dixiana Superfund Site

(``Site'') located in Lexington County, South Carolina.

Under the proposed Consent Decree, the United States has obtained

84.5 percent of its past response costs, including prejudgment

interest, totaling $4,132,837, and has obtained a commitment for

payment of all EPA's future oversight costs. The Settling Defendants

will also assume full responsibility for upgrading and completing the

remedy initiated at the Site by EPA.

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. Monsanto Company, et al., DOJ Ref. #90-11-3-336.

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

United States Attorney, 1st Union Building, 1441 Main Street, Suite

500, Columbia, South Carolina; the Region IV Office of the

Environmental Protection Agency, 345 Courtland Street, N.E., Atlanta,

Georgia; and 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 $20.25 (25 cents per page reproduction

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costs), payable to the Consent Decree Library.

Bruce Gelber,

Acting Chief, Environmental Enforcement Section, Environmental and

Natural Resources Division.

[FR Doc. 95-17176 Filed 7-12-95; 8:45 am]

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