[Federal Register Volume 60, Number 40 (Wednesday, March 1, 1995)]
[Notices]
[Pages 11113-11114]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 95-4922]



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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

Notice of Lodging of Consent Decree Pursuant to the Comprehensive 
Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (``CERCLA'')

    Notice is hereby given that a proposed consent decree in United 
States v. Allied-Signal, Inc. et al., (1;95 CV 085) was lodged on 
February 16, 1995, with the United States District Court for the 
Eastern District of Texas.
    The United States brought a civil action against Allied-Signal, 
Inc.; Atlantic Richfield Company; Bridgestone/Firestone, Inc., formerly
d/b/a/ Firestone Tire and Rubber Company, Inc.; The Dow Chemical 
Company; Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company; Mobil Oil Corporation; Olin 
Corporation; PPG Industries, Inc.; Union Oil Company of California, d/
b/a Unocal; and Unocal Corporation pursuant to Sections 106 and 107 of 
the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability 
Act of 1980 (``CERCLA''), 42 U.S.C. 9606 and 9607. The Complaint, filed 
concurrently with the lodging of the Consent Decree, alleges that the 
defendants are liable for injunctive relief necessary to abate a 
threatened release of hazardous substances and for all costs of removal 
and/or remedial actions incurred by the United States in responding to 
releases or threatened releases of hazardous substances at the Bailey 
Waste Disposal Site. The Bailey Waste Disposal Site encompasses 
approximately 280 acres located 3 miles southwest of Bridge City in 
Orange County, Texas. Further, the Complaint alleges that each of the 
defendants, at times relevant to this action, by contract, agreement, 
or otherwise arranged for the disposal of hazardous substances at the 
Site. The Consent Decree provides for reimbursement to the Hazardous 
Substance Superfund (``the Fund'') by the Settling Defendants of the 
greater of (1) 85.3 percent of 20 percent of those funds expended by 
the Bailey Task Force in completing its [[Page 11114]] remedial action, 
pursuant to a Consent Decree entered in a related action, United States 
v. BFI, et al., Civil Action No. B-89-00859-CA1 (E.D. Tex.), or (2) 
$2,600,000.00. If the claims submitted by the Bailey Task Force total 
less than $2,600,000.00, then the Settling Defendants shall pay the 
United States 100 percent of the total claims submitted under the Mixed 
Funding 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 for the Environment and Natural Resources Division, 
Department of Justice, Washington, DC 20530, and should refer to United 
States v. Allied-Signal, Inc. et. al., DOJ. Ref. #90-11-2-390A.
    The proposed consent decree may be examined at the office of the 
United States Attorney, 305 Federal Building, 211 W. Ferguson Street, 
Tyler Texas 75702; the Region VI Office of the Environmental Protection 
Agency, 1445 Ross Avenue, Suite 1200, Dallas Texas 75202; 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 $9.00 (25 cents per page reproduction costs), payable to the Consent 
Decree Library.
Joel M. Gross,
Acting Chief, Environmental Enforcement Section, Environment and 
Natural Resources Division.
[FR Doc. 95-4922 Filed 2-28-95; 8:45 am]
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