[Federal Register Volume 63, Number 9 (Wednesday, January 14, 1998)]
[Notices]
[Page 2265]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 98-910]
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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE
Notice of Filing of Settlement Agreement Pursuant to the
Comprehensive Environmental Response Compensation, and Recovery Act
(CERCLA)
In accordance with Departmental Policy, 28 CFR 50.7, and Section
122(d)(2) of CERCLA, 42 U.S.C. 9622(d)(2), notice is hereby given that
a proposed Settlement Agreement in, In re Enviropur West Corporation,
Chap. 7, Bankr. No. LA-96-23683-SB (USBC C.D. Cal.) was filed on or
about December 31, 1997 with the United States Bankruptcy Court for the
Central District of California. This Settlement Agreement resolves a
claim filed by the United States against Enviropur West Corporation,
pursuant to Section 107(a), 42 U.S.C. 9607(a). The settling debtor was
the owner/operator of a facility located in Signal Hill, California
(the ``Site'') at the time of disposal of hazardous substances. The
Settlement Agreement provides, among other things, that the Trustee, on
behalf of the debtor's estate, will pay $30,000 to the Hazardous
Substance Superfund for response costs incurred by the United States at
the Site. In addition, the Trustee, on behalf of the debtor's estate,
will pay 10% of any funds in the debtor's estate, after the Trustee has
paid certain other specified claims and expenses.
The Department of Justice will receive, for a period of thirty (30)
days from the date of this publication, comments relating to the
proposed Settlement Agreement. Comments should be addressed to the
Assistant Attorney General for the Environment and Natural Resources
Division, Department of Justice, Washington, D.C. 20530, and should
refer to In re Enviropur West Corporation, DOJ #90-11-3-1656B.
The proposed Settlement Agreement may be examined at the office of
the Region IX office of the Environmental Protection Agency, 75
Hawthorne Street, San Francisco, California 94105; and at the Consent
Decree Library, 1120 G Street, N.W., 4th Floor, Washington, D.C. 20005,
(202) 624-0892. A copy of the proposed Settlement Agreement 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 refer to the referenced case and enclose a check in the amount
of $5.25 (25 cents per page reproduction costs), payable to the Consent
Decree Library.
Joel M. Gross,
Chief, Environmental Enforcement Section Environment and Natural
Resources Division.
[FR Doc. 98-910 Filed 1-13-98; 8:45 am]
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