[Federal Register Volume 64, Number 206 (Tuesday, October 26, 1999)]
[Notices]
[Pages 57653-57654]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 99-27901]
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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 a consent decree in United States v.
General Battery Corporation, et al., Civil Action No. 85-1372 (E.D.
Pa.) was lodged with the court on September 14, 1999.
The proposed decree resolves claims of the United States against
two parties to the action, M. Glosser & Sons, Inc. and Barbara Brown
DiMenichi, under sections 106 and 107 of the Comprehensive
Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act, as amended
(``CERCLA''), 42 U.S.C. 9606 and 9607, for response costs and actions
at the Brown's Battery Breaking Superfund site in Tilden Township,
Pennsylvania. The decree also resolves claims brought against the same
parties by General Battery Corporation. The decree requires M. Glosser
& Sons to pay, in reimbursement of response costs, $130,000 to the
United States and $360,000 to General Battery Corporation. The decree
requires Barbara Brown DiMenichi to reimburse $30,000 in response costs
to the United States and to assign certain insurance policies to
General Battery Corporation.
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, Washington, DC 20530, and should refer to United
States v. General Battery Corporation, et al., Civil Action No. 85-
1372, DOJ Ref. # 90-11-3-76.
The proposed consent decree may be examined and copied at the
Office of the United States Attorney, 615 Chestnut Street, Suite 1250,
Philadelphia, PA 19106; or at the Region III Office of the
Environmental Protection Agency, c/o Michael Hendershott, Assistant
Regional Counsel, 1650 Arch Street, Philadelphia, PA 19103. A copy of
the proposed consent decree may be obtained by mail from the Consent
Decree Library, P.O. Box No. 7611,
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Washington, DC 20044. In requesting a copy, please refer to the
referenced case and enclose a check in the amount of $10.50 (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. 99-27901 Filed 10-25-99; 8:45 am]
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