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 43

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

decree in United States v. Kerr-McGee Chemical Corporation, Civil

Action No. 97-0121-E-BLW, was lodged on March 21, 1997 with the United

States District Court for the District of Idaho. The Complaint in this

case alleges claims for recovery of response costs and injunctive

relief arising out of the release of hazardous substances at Kerr-McGee

Chemical Corporation's vanadium plant in Caribou County, Idaho. The

Consent Decree requires Kerr-McGee to eliminate uncontrolled discharges

of wastewater into groundwater, excavate tailings and institute

institutional controls to prevent consumption of groundwater that

exceeds health standards. The Consent Decree also requires Kerr-McGee

to pay the United States' costs associated with the 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. Kerr-McGee Chemical Corporation, DOJ Ref. No. 90-11-2-

1208.

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

United States Attorney, 877 W. Main St., Suite 201, Boise, Idaho 83702;

at the Region 10 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 $20.00 for the

consent decree without attachments, $63.50 with attachments (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. 97-10451 Filed 4-22-97; 8:45 am]

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