[Federal Register Volume 65, Number 216 (Tuesday, November 7, 2000)]
[Notices]
[Pages 66765-66766]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 00-28539]


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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE


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

    Pursuant to section 122(d)(2) of the Comprehensive Environmental 
Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (``CERCLA''), 42 U.S.C. 
9622(d)(2), and 28 CFR 50.7, notice is hereby given that a proposed 
consent decree embodying a settlement in United States v. Akzo Nobel 
Chemicals, Inc. and CK Video Corporation, Civil Action No. 00-0908-RV-
M, was lodged on October 10, 2000, with the United States District 
Court for the Southern District of Alabama.
    The United States seeks reimbursement of response costs incurred by 
the United States Environmental Protection Agency (``EPA''), pursuant 
to section 107 of CERCLA, 42 U.S.C. 9607, in response to releases of 
hazardous substances at the Stauffer Chem (LeMoyne Plant) Superfund 
Site (the ``Site''), which is located near Mobile, Alabama.
    Under the proposed consent decree, the Settling Parties, Akzo Nobel 
Chemical, Inc. and CK Witco Corporation have agreed to address 
groundwater and subsurface soil contamination on Site in the area 
designated by EPA as the Operable Unit #2 (``OU #2''). The remedial 
action selected from EPA's Record of Decision of OU #2 will be the 
construction, operation, and maintenance of an in-situ soil flushing 
system, which will operate in tandum with an existing groundwater 
treatment system, OU #1. OU #2 will significantly expand the range of 
groundwater and soil remediation of OU #1 by extending the treated 
areas of the Site reached by the treatment system and enhancing the 
capture, acceleration of the migration, and removal of contaminants. 
Monitoring and reporting of the subsurface soil for cyanide and 
thiocyanate will continue throughout the affected areas on an annual 
basis to determine if contaminants are moving into the groundwater in a 
controlled manner and are affectively being captured and treated by the 
total groundwater treatment system. The Settling Parties also agree to 
reimburse the Agency for 100% of past and future response and oversight 
costs.
    The Department will receive, for a period of thirty (30) days from 
the date of this publication, comments relating to the propose consent 
decree. Comments should be addressed to the Assistant Attorney General 
for the Environment and Natural Resources Division, U.S.

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Department of Justice, Box 7611, Washington, DC 20044-7611, and should 
refer to United States v. Akzo Nobel Chemicals, Inc. and CK Witco 
Corporation, DOJ Ref. #90-11-2-912/1.
    The proposed consent decree may be examined at the EPA Region 4 
Superfund Records Center, 61 Forsyth Street, 11th Floor, SW, Atlanta, 
Georgia 30303-8960, and at the Office of the United States Attorney for 
the Southern District of Alabama, 169 Dauphin Street, Suite 200, 
Mobile, Alabama 36602. A copy of the proposed consent decree may be 
also be obtained by mail from the Department of Justice Consent Decree 
Library, Box 7611, Washington, DC 20044-7611. In requesting a copy, 
please refer to the referenced case and enclosed a check in the amount 
of $34.50 (25 cents per page reproduction costs) payable to the Consent 
Decree Library. A copy of the decree, exclusive of the parties' 
signature pages and attachments, may be obtained for $10.00.

Bruce Gelber,
Chief, Environmental Enforcement Section, Environmental and Natural 
Resources Division.
[FR Doc. 00-28539 Filed 11-6-00; 8:45 am]
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