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 Civil Action No. 99-

2673-Civ-T-24B was lodged with the United States District Court for the

Middle District of Florida on November 23, 1999.

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 Stauffer Chemical

Superfund Site in Tarpon Springs, Florida (``the Site'').

Under a proposed Consent Decree, Atkemix Thirty-Seven, Inc., the

present owner and operator of the Site, and Rhone-Poulenc Ag Company,

Inc., the former owner and operator of the Site, have agreed to perform

the remedy chosen by EPA to clean up the Site, pay the government's

remaining past response costs, and pay future response costs, in

settlement of the government's claims under Sections 106 and 107 of

CERCLA, 42 U.S.C. 9606 and 9607.

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. Atkemix Thirty-Seven, Inc., Rhone-Poulenc Ag. Company,

Inc., (M.D. F1.), DOJ # 90-11-2-1227/1.

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

United States Attorney, 400 North Tampa Street, Suite 3200, Tampa,

Florida 33602; the Region 4 Office of the Environmental Protection

Agency, 61 Forsyth Street, Atlanta, Georgia 30303, and at the Consent

Decree Library, Post Office Box 7611, Washington, D.C. 20044-7611,

(202) 514-1547. A copy of the proposed consent decree may be obtained

by mail from the Consent Decree Library, Post Office Box 7611,

Washington, DC 20044-7611. In requesting a copy please refer to the

referenced case and enclose a check in the amount of 25 cents per page

for reproduction costs, payable to the Consent Decree Library.

Joel M. Gross,

Chief, Environmental Enforcement Section, Environment and Natural

Resources Division.

[FR Doc. 99-32976 Filed 12-20-99; 8:45 am]

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