[Federal Register Volume 66, Number 113 (Tuesday, June 12, 2001)]
[Notices]
[Page 31693]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 01-14715]


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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE


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

    Notice is hereby given that a proposed consent decree in United 
States v. Richard Scott Johnson et al. Civil Action No. 1-00-0575-22, 
was lodged on May 22, 2001, with the United States District Court for 
South Carolina. The proposed Consent Decree would resolve certain 
claims under Section 107 of the Comprehensive Environmental Response, 
Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980, 42 U.S.C. 9607, as amended 
brought against Richard Scott Johnson, Stiles M. Harper, Grover Bowers 
Jr., Union Carbide Corporation, Olin Corporation, ExxonMobil 
Corporation, USX Corporation, formerly U.S. Steel, Viad Corporation, 
CSX Transportation, Inc., Hercules Incorporated, NOR-AM Chemical 
Company, and Schwerman Trucking Company (collectively ``Settling 
Defendants'') to recover response costs incurred by the Environmental 
Protection Agency in connection with the release of a hazardous 
substances at the U.S. Steel Agrichem Old Blue Chemical Superfund Site 
(``Site'') in Fairfax, Allendale County, South Carolina. The United 
States alleges that Settling Defendants are liable as persons who own 
and operate or formerly owned and operated a portion of the site at the 
time of disposal of a hazardous substance, or as persons who arranged 
for the disposal of a hazardous substances at the Site at the time of 
the release of a hazardous substance or as a current owner of a portion 
of the Site. Under the proposed Consent Decree, the Settling Defendants 
will pay $976,000.00 to the Hazardous Substances Superfund to reimburse 
the United States for response costs incurred and to be incurred at 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 
proposed Consent Decree. Comments should be addressed to the Assistant 
Attorney General for the Environment and Natural Resources Division, 
Department of Justice, P.O. Box 7611, Washington, DC 20530, and should 
refer to United States v. Richard Scott Johnson, et al., Civil Action 
No. 1-00-0575-22 (D.S.C.), DOJ Ref. #90-11-3-07057/1.
    The Consent Decree may be examined at the Region 4 Office of the 
Environmental Protection Agency, 61 Forsyth Street, Atlanta, GA 30303 
and the United States Attorney's Office for the District of South 
Carolina, Federal Building & U.S. Courthouse, District of South 
Carolina, 1441 Main Street, Suite 500, Columbia South Carolina, 29201 
c/o Assistant U.S. Attorney R. Emery Clark. A copy of the proposed 
consent decree may be obtained by mail from the Consent Decree Library, 
Post Office Box 7611, Washington, DC 20044. In requesting copies please 
refer to the referenced case and enclose a check in the amount of 
$12.00 (25 cents per page reproduction costs), payable to the Consent 
Decree Library.

Ellen Mahan,
Assistant Section Chief, Environmental Enforcement Section, Environment 
and Natural Resources Division.
[FR Doc. 01-14715 Filed 6-11-01; 8:45 am]
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