[Federal Register Volume 66, Number 70 (Wednesday, April 11, 2001)]
[Notices]
[Page 18798]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 01-8912]


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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE


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

    In accordance with Departmental policy, 28 CFR 50.7, notice is 
hereby given that, on April 2, 2001, a proposed Consent Decree Between 
the United States of America and Rexam Beverage Can Company, Inc. and 
Primerica, Inc. (the decree) in United States v. Russell Martin Bliss, 
et al. (the Missouri Dioxin Litigation), Civil Action No. 89-363C-1 
(E.D. Mo.) was lodged with the United States District Court for the 
Eastern District of Missouri.
    The decree resolves claims for injunctive relief and response costs 
under sections 106 and 107(a)(3) of the Comprehensive Environmental 
Response, Corporation, and Liability Act, 42 U.S.C. Secs. 9606 and 
9607(a)(3), against Rexam Beverage Can Company, Inc. and Primerica, 
Inc. arising out of the disposal and subsequent clean-up of wastes at 
the Bliss-Ellisville Superfund Site in St. Louis County, Missouri. 
Pursuant to the decree, Rexam and Primerica will pay $1,750,000 to the 
Hazardous Substances Superfund. The monies paid by the settling 
defendants under the decree will reimburse past federal costs at the 
Site. The decree provides the settling defendants with releases from 
civil liability for injunctive relief and response costs at the Site.
    For thirty (30) days following this publication, the Department of 
Justice will receive comments relating to the proposed decree. Comments 
should be addressed to the Assistant Attorney General of the 
Environmental and Natural Resources Division, United States Department 
of Justice, Post Office Box 7611, Washington, DC 20044-7611, and should 
refer to United States v. Russell Martin Bliss, et al. ( the Missouri 
Dioxin Litigation), Civil Action No. 89-363C-1, DOJ no. 90-11-2-41E.
    The proposed decree may be examined at the offices of the United 
States Attorney, Eastern District of Missouri, United States Court and 
Custom House, 111 S. 10th Street-20th Floor, St. Louis, Missouri 63101, 
and the United States Environmental Protection Agency--Region VII, 901 
N. 5th Street, Kansas City, Kansas, 66101. The decree may also be 
obtained by mail from the United States Department of Justice Consent 
Decree Library, Post Office Box 7611, Washington, DC 20044-7611. In 
requesting a copy, please enclose a check in the amount of $5.25 (25 
cents per page reproduction cost).

Robert E. Maher,
Assistant Chief, Environmental Enforcement Section, Environment and 
Natural Resources Division.
[FR Doc. 01-8912 Filed 4-10-01; 8:45 am]
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