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 Sec. 50.7, notice is

hereby given that, on or about July 29, 1996, a proposed Consent Decree

in United States v. Russell Martin Bliss, et al., Civil No. 89-375C-1,

was lodged with the United States District Court for the Eastern

District of Missouri. The Decree represents a settlement with landowner

defendant Antimony Corporation of claims under Sections 106 and 107 of

the Comprehensive Environmental Response Compensation and Liability Act

(CERCLA), 42 U.S.C. 9606 and 9607, arising out of the release by

Russell Martin Bliss of the hazardous substance dioxin at the East

Texas Motor Freight Company Site, located at 119 Douglas Street in St.

Louis, Missouri. Civil No. 89-357C-1 is one of the consolidated actions

known collectively as the Missouri Dioxin Litigation, which was brought

by the United States to obtain injunctive relief and recover response

costs arising out of the release of dioxin at 28 sites in eastern

Missouri. The East Texas Motor Freight Company Site is one of those 28

sites.

Under the settlement, Antimony will reimburse the Hazardous Waste

Trust Fund (the Superfund) $300,000 and will assure continued access to

the Site to the United States Environmental Protection Agency (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 Decree. Comments should be addressed to the Assistant Attorney

General of the Environment and Natural Resources Division, Department

of Justice, Washington, D.C. 20530, and should refer to United States

v. Russell Martin Bliss, et al., Civil No. 89-357C-1, D.J. Ref. 90-11-

2-41.

The proposed Consent Decree may be examined at the Office of the

United States Attorney, Eastern District of Missouri, 1114 Market

Street, St. Louis, Missouri 63101; EPA-Region VII's offices at 726

Minnesota Avenue, Kansas City, Missouri 66101; 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

enclose a check in the amount of $7.75 (25 cents per page reproduction

cost) payable to the Consent Decree Library.

Bruce S. Gelber,

Deputy Chief, Environmental Enforcement Section, Environment and

Natural Resources Division.

[FR Doc. 96-20089 Filed 8-6-96; 8:45 am]

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