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), as amended, 42 U.S.C.

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

in United States v. Chevron Chemical Company, et al., Civil Action No.

7:96-CV-20, was lodged on March 8, 1996, with the United States

District Court for the Middle District of Georgia. Under the proposed

consent decree, the settling defendants, Chevron Chemical and Kova

Fertilizer, will reimburse the United States $376,170.40 for its past

response costs incurred at the Marzone/Chevron Chemical Superfund Site

in Tifton, Georgia. Settling Defendants will also implement most of the

Remedial Design and Remedial Action for Operable Unit One of the Site,

at an estimated cost of $5.2 million. In particular, they will conduct

the complete Remedial Design and Remedial Action for the contaminated

soils and prepare a preliminary Remedial Design for mediation of the

contaminated groundwater. Settling defendants will also fully reimburse

EPA for its past and future response costs in connection with Operable

Unit One.

This action is brought pursuant to Sections 106 and 107 of CERCLA,

42 U.S.C. Secs. 9606 and 9607. The settling defendants are past owners

or operators of the Site, which was used for the formulation of

pesticides.

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. Chevron Chemical Company, et al., DOJ Ref.

#90-11-3-274.

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

United States Attorney, 433 Cherry Street, Fourth Floor, Macon, Georgia

31202; the Office of Regional Counsel, Region IV, Environmental

Protection Agency, 345 Courtland Street, N.E., Atlanta, Georgia; and at

the Environmental Enforcement Section Consent Decree Library, 1120 G

Street, N.W., 4th Floor, Washington,

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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

of the Decree, please refer to the referenced case and enclose a check

in the amount of $19.50 (25 cents per page reproduction costs), payable

to the Consent Decree Library. For a copy of the Decree with all of the

attachments (Record of Decision for Operable Unit One, Statement of

Work, and Site Map), please refer to the referenced case and enclose a

check in the amount of $37.50 (25 cents per page reproduction costs),

payable to the Consent Decree Library.

Joel Gross,

Chief, Environmental Enforcement Section, Environment and Natural

Resources Division.

[FR Doc. 96-6613 Filed 3-19-96; 8:45 am]

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