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, notice

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

Young Refining Company, Civil Action No. 1-96-CV-1002-JEC, was lodged

on April 25, 1996, with the United States District Court for the

Northern District of Georgia. The consent decree settles a claim

brought under Section 107(a) of the Comprehensive Environmental

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

9607(a), for response costs incurred by the United States at the Basket

Creek Drum Disposal site (the ``Basket Creek site'') in Douglasville,

Georgia. Under the proposed consent decree, Young Refining will pay

$51,000 to the United States in reimbursement of response costs

incurred by the Environmental Protection Agency (``EPA'') in connection

with the Basket Creek site. Although the actual removal of hazardous

substances from the Basket Creek Site was conducted by Chem-Nuclear

Systems, Inc., EPA has incurred costs in excess of $475,000 in

connection with the Basket Creek 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. Young Refining Company, DOJ Ref. # 90-11-2-755.

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

United States Attorney, Richard Russell Federal Building, Suite 1800,

75 Spring Street, S.W., Atlanta, Georgia 30335; the Region 4 Office of

the Environmental Protection Agency, 345 Courtland Ave., N.E., Atlanta,

Georgia 30307; 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 $4.25 (25 cents per page

reproduction costs), payable to the Consent Decree Library.

Joel M. Gross,

Chief, Environmental Enforcement Section, Environment and Natural

Resources Division.

[FR Doc. 96-11801 Filed 5-10-96; 8:45 am]

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