[Federal Register Volume 66, Number 248 (Thursday, December 27, 2001)]
[Notices]
[Page 66935]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 01-31785]


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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 versus MRC Holdings, Inc., et al., Civil No. 8:01-CV-2289-T-
23MSS, was lodged on November 30, 2001, with the United States District 
Court for the Middle District of Florida, Tampa Division (``MRC 
Decree''). The propose Consent Decree would resolve certain claims 
under Sections 106 and 107 of the Comprehensive Environmental Response, 
Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980, 42 U.S.C. 9606 and 9607, as 
amended, to recover response costs incurred by the Environmental 
Protection Agency in connection with the release of hazardous 
substances at the at the MRI Superfund Site (``the Site'') in Tampa, 
Hillsborough County, Florida. The United States alleges that MRC 
Holdings, Inc., Proler International Corp., and MRI Corporation 
(``Settling Defendants'') are liable as persons who owned and/or 
operated the Site at the time of the release or threatened release of a 
hazardous substances. Under the proposed Consent Decree, Settling 
Defendants have agreed to: (a) Perform the remedy selected by the 
Environmental Protection Agency to clean up Operable Unit #1 (soil 
contamination) and the remedial investigation and feasibility study for 
Operation Unit #2 (groundwater contamination) at the Site; (b) EPA's 
past response costs in the amount of $700,000.00; and (c) pay future 
Site costs that EPA may incur. The proposed Decree resolves the 
liability of Defendants arising out of, and with respect to, the claims 
for relief asserted in the Complaint fill concomitant with this 
proposed 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, P.O. Box 7611, Washington, D.C. 20530, and 
should refer to United States versus MRC Holdings, Inc., et al., M.D. 
FLA., Civil No. 8:01-CV-2289-T-23MSS, DOJ Ref. #90-11-2-07053.
    The Consent Decree may be examined at the Region 4 Office of the 
Environmental Protection Agency, 61 Forsyth Street, Atlanta, GA 30303, 
and at the United States Attorney's Office for the Middle District of 
Florida, 400 North Tampa Street, Suite 3200, Tampa, Florida c/o Warren 
A. Zimmerman, Chief, Civil Division, United States Attorney's Office. A 
copy of the proposed Consent Decree (without attachments) may be 
obtained by mail from the Consent Decree Library, Post Office Box 7611, 
Washington, D.C. 20044. In requesting copies please refer to the 
reference case and enclose a check in the amount of $10.75 (25 cents 
per page reproduction costs) payable to the Consent Decree Library.

Ellen M. Mahan,
Assistant Section Chief, Environmental Enforcement Section, Environment 
and Natural Resources Division.
[FR Doc. 01-31785 Filed 12-26-01; 8:45 am]
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