[Federal Register Volume 70, Number 120 (Thursday, June 23, 2005)]
[Notices]
[Page 36409]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 05-12391]
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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE
Notice of Lodging of Consent Decree Under the Comprehensive
Environmental Response Compensation and Liability Act (``CERCLA'')
Pursuant to 28 CFR 50.7, notice is hereby given that on June 2,
2005, a proposed Consent Decree in the case of United States v.
Stauffer Management Company LLC and Bayer CropScience Inc., Civil
Action No. 8:05-cf-1024, was lodged 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, to remedy conditions in connection with the
release or threatened release of hazardous substances into the
environment at the Stauffer Chemical Superfund Site in Tarpon Springs,
Florida (hereinafter referred to as the ``Site''). The Settlers under
the proposed Consent Decree, Stauffer Management Company LLC and Bayer
CropScience Inc. (or their corporate predecessors), own the Site or
owned it at the time of disposal of hazardous substances at the Site.
Under a proposed Consent Decree, the Settlors have agreed to
perform the remedy chosen by EPA to clean up the Site, to pay $207,548
toward EPA's unreimbursed past response costs, and to pay EPA's future
response costs incurred in connection with 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 Consent
Decree. Comments should be addressed to the Assistant Attorney General,
Environment and Natural Resources Division, P.O. Box 7611, U.S.
Department of Justice, Washington, DC 20044-7611, and should refer to
United States v. Stauffer Management Company LLC and Bayer CropScience
Inc., D.J. Ref. 90-11-2-1227/3.
The Consent Decree may be examined at U.S. EPA Region 4, 61 Forsyth
Street, Atlanta, Georgia, 30303--Attn: Rudolph Fanasijevich. During the
public comment period, the Consent Decree, may also be examined on the
following Department of Justice Web site, http://www.usdoj.gov/enrd/open.html.
A copy of the Consent Decree may also be obtained by mail from the
Consent Decree Library, P.O. Box 7611, U.S. Department of Justice,
Washington, DC 20044-7611 or by faxing or e-mailing a request to Tonia
Fleetwood ([email protected]), fax no. (202) 514-0097, phone
confirmation number (202) 514-1547. In requesting a copy of the Decree
from the Consent Decree Library, please enclose a check in the amount
of $52.50 (25 cents per page reproduction cost for 210 pages) payable
to the U.S. Treasury.
Ellen M. Mahan,
Assistant Section Chief, Environmental Enforcement Section.
[FR Doc. 05-12391 Filed 6-22-05; 8:45 am]
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