[Federal Register Volume 60, Number 95 (Wednesday, May 17, 1995)]
[Notices]
[Pages 26457-26458]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 95-12076]



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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE


Notice of Lodging of Consent Decree Pursuant to the Comprehensive 
Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980

    Notice is hereby given that on April 28, 1995, a proposed Partial 
Consent Decree in United States v. Abbott Laboratories, et al., Civil 
Action No. 3-95-1308-17, was lodged with the United States District 
Court for the District of South Carolina. The Complaint, brought 
pursuant to Sections 106 and 107 of the Comprehensive Environmental 
Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980, as amended 
(``CERCLA''), 42 U.S.C. Secs. 9606 and 9607, seeks injunctive relief to 
abate an imminent and substantial endangerment to the public health or 
welfare or the environment, and recovery of response costs incurred or 
to be incurred by the United States in connection with the Bluff Road 
Superfund Site in Richland County, South Carolina (the ``Site''). The 
consent decree, which provides for partial funding of the Remedial 
Design and Remedial Action (``RD/RA'') selected by EPA for the Site, is 
the final consent decree for the Site and brings to a conclusion the 
governments efforts to secure cleanup of on-Site contamination by 
private potentially responsible parties (``PRPs'').
    Under the terms of this proposed decree, the group of settling PRPs 
that implemented and completed the Remedial Investigation/Feasibility 
Study at the Site under an EPA Administrative Order by Consent 
(``AOC''), will also contribute to the funding of the RD/RA. The terms 
setting forth the responsibilities of the settling PRPs in this 
proposed decree incorporate the terms on funding as originally set 
forth in the AOC. Payments under the proposed decree, combined with 
funding by other PRPs under a consent decree entered in U.S. v. Allied, 
Civ. No. 92-1108-0, on September 28, 1992, represent 99.30% of the 
total past costs incurred by EPA at the Site, and 100% of future costs 
to be incurred by EPA in overseeing implementation of the remedy at the 
Site. The responsibility of implementing the RD/RA lies with other 
settling PRPs under the Allied consent decree.
    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 of the Environment and Natural Resources Division, 
Department of Justice, Washington, D.C. 20530. Comments should refer to 
the United States v. Abbott Laboratories, et al., D.O.J. Ref. 90-7-1-
61D.
    The proposed Consent Decree may be examined at the Office of the 
United States Attorney for the District of South Carolina, 1441 Main 
Street, Ste. 500, Columbia South Carolina, and at the Environmental 
Enforcement Section Consent Decree Library, 1120 G Street, N.W., 4th 
Floor, Washington, D.C. 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, N.W., 4th Floor, Washington, D.C. 20005. 
In requesting a copy, please enclose a check in the amount of $34.75 
[[Page 26458]] (25 cents per page reproduction cost) payable to the 
Consent Decree Library.
Joel M. Gross,
Acting Section Chief, Environmental Enforcement Section, Environment 
and Natural Resources Division.
[FR Doc. 95-12076 Filed 5-16-95; 8:45 am]
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