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 Section 122(d) of the Comprehensive

Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act, as amended, 42

U.S.C. 9622(d), and the policy of the United States Department of

Justice, as provided in 28 CFR 50.7, notice is hereby given that on May

15, 1998, a proposed Second Consent Decree in United States v. City of

Jacksonville, Florida, et al., Civ. No. C-92-133-CIV-J-16, was lodged

with the United States District Court for the Middle District of

Florida. This Second Consent Decree concerns the Picketville Road

Landfill Superfund Site in Jacksonville, Florida. The 52-acre Site is a

former City landfill used for disposal of residential, industrial and

commercial wastes, including solid and liquid hazardous wastes.

On April 22, 1992, the Court in this action entered a First Consent

Decree under which sixteen potentially responsible parties agreed to

partially reimburse the United States for its past

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response costs and to implement the permanent remedy selected by EPA

for remediation of contaminated groundwater, surface water and

sediments, and soils.

Under the proposed Second Consent Decree, ten new defendants have

agreed to pay the United States $150,000 in partial reimbursement of

its outstanding past response costs.

The Department of Justice will receive, for a period of thirty (30)

days from the date of this publication, comments concerning the

proposed Second Consent Decree. Comments should be addressed to the

Assistant Attorney General, Environment and Natural Resources Division,

U.S. Department of Justice, P.O. Box 7611, Washington, D.C. 20044, and

should refer to United States v. City of Jacksonville, Florida, et al.,

D.J. Ref. 90-11-3-725.

The proposed Second Consent Decree may be examined at any of the

following offices: (1) the Office of the United States Attorney for the

Middle District of Florida, 200 W. Forsyth Street, Ste. 700,

Jacksonville, Florida 32201; (2) the U.S. Environmental Protection

Agency, Region 4, 61 Forsyth Street, S.W., Atlanta, Georgia; and (3)

the Consent Decree Library, 1120 G Street, N.W., 4th Floor, Washington,

D.C. 20005 (telephone (202) 624-0892).

A copy of the proposed Second 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. 2005. Please refer to the referenced case.

The cost for a copy of the Decree is $8.00 (based on a photocopying

charge of $0.25 per page): All checks should be made payable to

``Consent Decree Library.''

Joel M. Gross,

Chief, Environmental Enforcement Section, Environment and Natural

Resources Division.

[FR Doc. 98-14322 Filed 5-29-98; 8:45 am]

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