# Notice of Lodging of Consent Decree Under the Comprehensive Environmental Response Compensation and Liability Act 42 U.S.C. 9601, et seq.

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## Record

- **Collection:** Federal Register
- **Document type:** Notice
- **Published:** June 11, 1999
- **Citation:** 64 FR 31611

## Text

DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

Notice of Lodging of Consent Decree Under the Comprehensive
Environmental Response Compensation and Liability Act 42 U.S.C. 9601,
et seq.

Notice is hereby given that on May 27, 1999, a proposed Consent
Decree in United States of America et al. v. Braselman Corporation, et
al., Civil Action No. 96-0862 (consolidated with No. 96-0872) was
lodged in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of
Louisiana. The United States and the State of Louisiana filed these
actions under section 107 of the Comprehensive Environmental Response,
Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980, 42 U.S.C. 9607, as amended
(``CERCLA'') for reimbursement of response costs incurred and to be
incurred by the United States for response actions related to the
release or threatened release of hazardous substances at the Bayou
Bonfouca Superfund Site (``Site'') in the City of Slidell, Louisiana.
Under the proposed Consent Decree, the Alabama Great Southern
Railroad Company (``Alabama Great Southern'') has agreed to pay the
U.S. EPA Hazardous Substance Superfund $11,700,000 in reimbursement of
past and potential future response costs at the Site. The United States
entered into a prior Consent Decree with Kerr-McGee Chemical
Corporation and Kerr-McGee Corporation in which the those defendants
agreed to pay $20,000,000 to resolve their liability at the Site. The
United States also entered into a previous Consent Decree with Fleming
American Investment Trust, Ltd. under which that defendant paid
$3,600,000 to resolve its responsibility at the Site. The United States
incurred approximately $125,000,000 in cleaning up 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, DC 20530, and should refer to United
States of America et al. v. Braselman Corporation et al., DOJ Ref. No.
90-11-2-803A.

[[Page 31612]]

The proposed Consent Decree may be examined at the Office of the
United States Attorney, Hal Boggs Federal Building, 501 Magazine
Street, New Orleans, Louisiana 70130; the Region VI Office of the
Environmental Protection Agency, 1445 Ross Avenue, Dallas Texas 75202;
and at the Consent Decree Library, 1120 G Street, NW, 3rd 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 $9.25 (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. 99-14894 Filed 6-10-99; 8:45 am]
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