Notice of Lodging of Consent Decrees Pursuant to the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act

DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

Notice of Lodging of Consent Decrees Pursuant to the

Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act

Notice is hereby given that three proposed consent decrees in

United States v. Farmer Oil, et al., Civil Action No. 95-CV-3231, were

lodged on February 14, 1997, with the United States District Court for

the Northern District of Georgia. The consent decrees settle claims

against separate defendants brought under Section 107(a) of the

Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act

(``CERCLA''), 42 U.S.C. 9607(a), for response costs incurred by the

United States at the Daytona Antifreeze site (the ``Daytona site'') in

Marietta, Georgia. Under the proposed consent decrees, defendant

Houghton International, Inc. (``Houghton'') will pay $133,000 to the

United States in reimbursement of response costs incurred by the

Environmental Protection Agency (``EPA'') in connection with the

Daytona site, while defendants Farmer Oil Company, Inc. (``Farmer'')

and American Environmental Contractors, Inc. (``American'') will each

pay $20,000 in reimbursement. EPA has incurred costs in excess of

$357,000 in connection with the Daytona site.

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Previous settlements with defendants Watkins Omega, Inc. and Enterprise

Waste Oil Company, Inc. have secured $45,000 in reimbursement.

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 decrees. 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. Farmer Oil, et al., DOJ Ref. #90-11-2-1145A.

The proposed consent decrees 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, 100 Alabama Street, S.W., Atlanta,

Georgia 30303; 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 decrees 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 $3.50 for the Consent Decree

between the U.S. and Houghton International; $3.75 for the Consent

Decree between the U.S. and American Environmental Contractors, Inc.;

and $4.00 for the Consent Decree between the U.S. and Farmer Oil, Inc.

(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. 97-5593 Filed 3-6-97; 8:45 am]

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