[Federal Register Volume 59, Number 204 (Monday, October 24, 1994)]
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[FR Doc No: 94-26295]
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[Federal Register: October 24, 1994]
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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE
Notice of Lodging of Consent Decree Pursuant to the Comprehensive
Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act
Notice is hereby given that on October 12, 1994, a proposed Consent
Decree in United States v. OK Tool Co., Inc., et al., Civil No. 94-518-
B, was lodged with the United States District Court for the District of
New Hampshire, resolving the defendants' liability under the
Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act
(``CERCLA''), 42 U.S.C. Sec. 9601 et seq., and the Federal Debt
Collection Procedures Act, 28 U.S.C. Sec. 3001 et seq., for costs
incurred and to be incurred in responding to releases or threatened
releases into the environment of hazardous substances at the Savage
Municipal Water Supply Well Superfund Site (the ``Savage Site'')
located in Milford, New Hampshire.
Under the terms of the Consent Decree, OK Tool Co., Inc., OK Tool
Holdings, Inc., Crafts Precision Industries, Inc., Corinthian
Properties, Inc., John C. Pappas, Jr., Williams & Hussey Machine Co.,
Inc., the Estate of Thurston V. Williams, Forrest Hussey, Roger T.
Williams, Alan L. Foster, and other former shareholders of the OK Tool
Co. will pay a collective total of approximately $3 million to the
United States and the State of New Hampshire (``the State'') for past
and future CERCLA response actions that have been and will be
undertaken by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (``EPA'') and
the State for the Savage Site. This settlement is based primarily on
the settling defendants' ability to pay.
The United States and the State have incurred and expect to incur
in the future a total of approximately $10 million for response actions
at the Savage Well site, primarily for future remedial action involving
extraction and treatment of contaminated groundwater at the ``OK Tool
Source Area'' of the Savage Well site. The remedial action for the
remainder of the site is being performed by other potentially
responsible parties pursuant to a consent decree entered in United
States and State of New Hampshire v. Conductron Corp. et al. (No. 94-
174, D.N.H., June 27, 1994).
The U.S. 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, P.O. Box 7611, Ben Franklin Station, Washington,
D.C. 20044-7611, and should refer to United States v. OK Tool Co.,
Inc., et al. D.J. Ref. 90-11-3-970A.
The proposed Consent Decree may be examined at the Region 1 Office
of the Environmental Protection Agency, One Congress Street, Boston,
Massachusetts. Copies of the Consent Decree also may be examined at the
Environmental Enforcement Section Document Center, 1120 G Street, N.W.,
4th Floor, Washington, D.C. 20005, (202) 624-0892. A copy of the
proposed Consent Decree (excluding Appendices) may be obtained in
person or by mail from the Document Center. In requesting a copy,
please refer to the referenced case and enclose a check in the amount
of $23.50 (25 cents per page reproduction cost) for the Consent Decree
and Appendices, made payable to Consent Decree Library.
Bruce S. Gelber,
Acting Chief, Environment and Natural Resources Division.
[FR Doc. 94-26295 Filed 10-21-94; 8:45 am]
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