Notice of Lodging of Consent Decree Under the Comprehensive, Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act (``CERCLA'')

DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

Notice of Lodging of Consent Decree Under the Comprehensive,

Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act (``CERCLA'')

In accordance with Departmental policy, 28 CFR 50.7, notice is

hereby given that a proposed consent decree in United States v.

Hillsborough County, Florida, et al. (M.D. Fl.) Civil Action No. 98-

239-CIV-T-25F, was lodged on February 4, 1998, with the United States

District Court for the Middle District of Florida.

In this action the United States sought injunctive relief and

recovery of response costs under Sections 106(a) and 107 of CERCLA, 42

U.S.C. 9606(a) and 9607, with respect to the Taylor Road Landfill

Superfund Site in Hillsborough County, Florida (``the Site'') which is

the location of a solid waste landfill utilized from May 1976 until

February 1980.

Under a proposed Consent Decree, Hillsborough County, the past and

present owner and operator of the Site, and a group of settlors which

arranged for the disposal of hazardous substances at the site, have

agreed to perform the remedy chosen by EPA to clean up the Site, pay

all of the government's future response costs, and pay over 75 percent

of the government's remaining past response costs, incurred or to be

incurred for response activities at 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. Hillsborough County, Florida, et al. (M.D. Fl.) and

DOJ #90-11-3-1614.

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

United States Attorney, 500 Zack Street, Room 400, Tampa, Florida

33602; the Region 4 Office of the Environmental Protection Agency, 61

Forsythe Street, 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 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 $54.75 (25

cents per page reproduction costs), payable to the Consent Decree

Library. In requesting a copy exclusive of exhibits, please enclose a

check for $31.50 (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. 98-4210 Filed 2-18-98; 8:45 am]

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