[Federal Register Volume 65, Number 250 (Thursday, December 28, 2000)]
[Notices]
[Page 82389]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 00-33054]


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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE


Notice of Lodging of Consent Decree Pursuant to the Comprehensive 
Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act

    Notice is hereby given that a proposed Consent Decree in United 
States v. American Home Products, Corp, et al., Civil Action No. C00-
4173MWB, was lodged on December 8, 2000, with the United States 
District Court for the Northern District of Iowa.
    In this action the United States sought to recover, pursuant to 
Section 107 of the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, 
and Liability Act (``CERCLA''), 42 U.S.C. 9607, response costs incurred 
and to be incurred by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency 
(``EPA'') in response to the release of hazardous substances into the 
environment at or from the InterChem Superfund Site (hereinafter ``the 
Site'') located in Alton, Iowa.
    The proposed Consent Decree embodies an agreement with four 
potentially responsible parties (``PRPs'') pursuant to Section 107 of 
CERCLA, 42 U.S.C. 9607, to pay $212,400 in past response costs for 
EPA's unreimbursed oversight costs. The PRPs, American Home Products, 
Corp., American Cyanamid Company, Solvay America, Inc., and Salsbury 
Chemicals, Inc., are successors to Salsbury Laboratories, Inc. 
(``SLI''). SLI had sent raw pesticide ingredients including malathion, 
which is a hazardous substance, to the Site for formulation, which was 
then returned to SLI as finished pesticide products. A removal action 
at the Site to remove hazardous substances, including malathion, was 
undertaken by other PRPs with EPA oversight and was completed in 1996. 
The defendants are paying $212,400 which is proportionate to the costs 
incurred by the other PRPs who undertook the prior removal. This 
payment leaves EPA's outstanding unreimbursed response costs at less 
than $25,000, at a Site where the total response action expenditures, 
including expenditures by PRPs, were over $1.5 million.
    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, P.O. Box 7611, Washington, DC 20044-7611, and 
should refer to United States v. American Home Products, Corp., et al., 
DOJ Ref. No. 90-11-3-06738.
    The proposed Consent Decree may be examined at the Office of the 
United States Attorney, Northern District of Iowa, Hach Building, Suite 
400, 401 1st Street, SE., Cedar Rapids, Iowa 52401, and the Region VII 
Office of the Environmental Protection Agency, Region VII Records 
Center, 901 N. 5th St., Kansas City, KS 66101. A copy of the proposed 
Consent Decree may be obtained by mail from the Consent Library, U.S. 
Department of Justice, Environmental Enforcement Section, Post Office 
Box 7611, Washington, DC 20044. In requesting a copy, please refer to 
the referenced case and enclose a check in the amount of $5.50 (25 
cents per page reproduction costs), payable to the Consent Decree 
Library.

Bruce Gelber,
Chief, Environmental Enforcement Section Environment and Natural 
Resources Division.
[FR Doc. 00-33054 Filed 12-27-00; 8:45 am]
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