[Federal Register Volume 63, Number 12 (Tuesday, January 20, 1998)]
[Notices]
[Page 3003]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 98-1241]


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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 United States v. Beaunit 
Corporation, et al., (W.D.N.C.), Civil Action No. 5:97CV198-MCK, was 
lodged on December 18, 1997, with the United States District Court for 
the Western District of North Carolina.
    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 FCX-Statesville Superfund 
Site, located in Iredell County, North Carolina (``the Site'') the 
location of a textile plant owned and operated from 1927 to the present 
by a succession of several entities including El Paso Natural Gas 
Company, Beaunit Corporation and Burlington Industries, Inc., the 
current owner.
    Under a proposed Consent Decree, El Paso Natural Gas Company has 
agreed to perform EPA's selected Site remedy for Operable Unit No. 3 
which includes any contingency measures that EPA may determine to be 
necessary. If EPA determines that contingency measures are necessary, 
Burlington Industries Inc. will also be responsible for performing such 
response actions. Beaunit will be responsible for paying all of EPA's 
future response costs. El Paso Natural Gas Company and Burlington 
Industries, Inc., have previously reimbursed EPA of all of its past 
response costs pursuant to a June 1993 Administrative Order On Consent.
    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, DC 20530, and should refer to United 
States v. Beaunit Corporation, et al., DOJ Ref. #90-11-3-1698.
    The proposed consent decree may be examined at the office of the 
United States Attorney, 324 West Market Street 4th Floor, Greensboro, 
North Carolina, 27402; the Region 4 Office of the Environmental 
Protection Agency, 61 Forsythe Street, Atlanta, Georgia 30303, and at 
the Consent Decree Library, 1120 G Street, NW., 4th Floor, Washington, 
DC 20005, (202) 624-0892. A copy of the proposed consent decree may be 
obtained in person or by mail from the Consent Decree Library, 1120 G 
Street, NW., 4th Floor, Washington, DC 20005. In requesting a copy 
please refer to the referenced case and enclose a check in the amount 
of $54.75 (25 cents per page reproduction costs), payable to the 
Consent Decree Library. In requesting a copy exclusive of exhibits, 
please enclose a check for $26.50 (25 cents per page reproduction 
costs), payable to the Consent Decree Library.
Joel M. Gross,
Chief, Environmental Enforcement Section, Environment and Natural 
Resources Division.
[FR Doc. 98-1241 Filed 1-16-98; 8:45 am]
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