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 50.7, notice is

hereby given that a proposed Modification to a consent decree in United

State and State of Washington Department of Ecology v. City of Tacoma,

Civil Action No. C89-583T, was lodged on February 27, 1996 with the

United States District Court for the Western District of Washington.

The proposed Modification adds language to the consent decree which

settles a dispute about measures which must be taken by the City to

maintain minimum flows in a creek which has been affected by the

removal

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of groundwater by the City in the context of the remediation of

groundwater contaminated or threatened with contamination by hazardous

substances from the Tacoma Landfill Superfund Site. The existing

consent decree, entered in May, 1991, settled an action brought under

the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability

Act of 1980, 42 U.S.C. 9601 et seq., to compel the City to address

releases or threats of releases of hazardous substances at the Tacoma

Landfill Superfund Site in Tacoma, Washington, and to reimburse the

United States for costs of removal or remedial actions at that Site.

The Department of Justice will receive, for a period of twenty (20)

days from the date of this publication, comments relating to the

proposed modification to the 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 and State of Washington

Department of Ecology v. City of Tacoma, DOJ Ref. #90-11-2-381.

The proposed modification to the consent decree may be examined at

the office of the United States Attorney, 3600 Seafirst Fifth Avenue

Plaza, 800 Fifth Avenue, Seattle, Washington 98104; the Region X Office

of the Environmental Protection Agency, 1200 Sixth Avenue, Seattle,

Washington 98101; 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 $44.55 (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. 96-5775 Filed 3-11-96; 8:45 am]

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