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 consent decree in United States v. Young

Refining Company, Civil Action No. 1-96-CV-1002-JEC, was lodged on

December 31, 1997, with the United States District Court for the

Northern District of Georgia. The consent decree settles a claim

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 Basket

Creek Drum Disposal site (the ``Basket Creek site'') in

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Douglasville, Georgia. Under the proposed consent decree, Continental

Trading Company and Dr. Fred W.J. Liu will pay $67,500 to the United

States in reimbursement of response costs incurred by the Environmental

Protection Agency (``EPA'') in connection with the Basket Creek site.

Most of the removal of hazardous substances from the Basket Creek Site

was conducted by Chem-Nuclear Systems, Inc. EPA has incurred costs of

approximately $678,000 in connection with the Basket Creek 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 Environmental and Natural Resources Division,

Department of Justice, Washington, DC 20530, and should refer to United

States v. Young Refining Company, DOJ Ref. #90-11-2-755.

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

United States Attorney, Richard Russell Federal Building, Suite 1800,

75 Spring Street, SW., Atlanta, Georgia 30335; the Region 4 Office of

the Environmental Protection Agency, 61 Forsythe St., SE., Atlanta,

Georgia 30303; and at the Consent Decree Library, 1120 G Street, NW.,

4th Floor, Washington, DC 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, NW., 4th Floor, Washington, DC 20005. In

requesting a copy please refer to the referenced case and enclose a

check in the amount of $4.50 (25 cents per page reproduction costs),

payable to the Consent Decree Library.

Walker B. Smith,

Deputy Chief, Environmental Enforcement Section, Environment and

Natural Resources Division.

[FR Doc. 98-1919 Filed 1-26-98; 8:45 am]

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