[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] ======================================================================= ----------------------------------------------------------------------- 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] BILLING CODE 4410-01-M