[Federal Register Volume 64, Number 7 (Tuesday, January 12, 1999)]
[Notices]
[Page 1822]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 99-609]
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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE
Notice of Lodging of Consent Decree Under the Comprehensive
Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act
Notice is hereby given that on December 23, 1998, a proposed
Consent Decree in United States v. Southern California Edison Company,
Civil Action number F-98-5595 AWI SMS, was lodged with the United
States District Court for the Eastern District of California.
In this action, the United States sought to recover past response
costs as well as future response costs incurred and to be incurred by
the United States at the Southern California Edison Visalia Poleyard
Superfund Site (``Site'') in Visalia, Tulare County, California. The
Consent Decree resolves claims pursuant to Section 107 of the
Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act,
42 U.S.C. Sec. 9607, against defendant Southern California Edison
Company. In the proposed consent decree, the Defendant agrees to pay to
the United States $264,000 for past response costs which the United
States paid through February 28, 1998, and has also agreed to reimburse
the United States for all costs paid at or in connection with the Site
after February 28, 1998 that are not inconsistent with the National
Contingency Plan.
The Department of Justice will receive for a period of thirty (30)
days from the date of this publication comments relating to the 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, and should refer to United States v.
Southern California Edison Company, D.J. Ref. 90-11-3-06062.
The Consent Decree may be examined at the Office of the United
States Attorney, Eastern District of California, Federal Building Room
3654, 1130 ``O'' Street, Fresno, CA 93721, at U.S. EPA Region 9, 75
Hawthorne Street, San Francisco, CA 94105-3901, and at the Consent
Decree Library, 1120 G Street, N.W., 3rd Floor, Washington, D.C. 20005,
(202) 624-0892. A copy of the Consent Decree may be obtained in person
or by mail from the Consent Decree Library, 1120 G Street, N.W., 3rd
Floor, Washington, D.C. 20005. In requesting a copy, please enclose a
check in the amount of $7 (25 cents per page reproduction cost) payable
to the Consent Decree Library.
Joel M. Gross,
Chief, Environmental Enforcement Section, Environment and Natural
Resources Division.
[FR Doc. 99-609 Filed 1-11-99; 8:45 am]
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