[Federal Register Volume 61, Number 235 (Thursday, December 5, 1996)]
[Notices]
[Page 64532]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 96-30987]
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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 November 21, 1996, a proposed
Consent Decree in United States v. Sheller Globe Corporation et al.,
Civil No. 1:96-CV-927, was lodged with the United States District Court
for the Western District of Michigan. This consent Decree resolves
specified claims against sixty-three (63) parties (``Settling
Defendant'') under the Comprehensive Environmental Response,
Compensation and Liability Act of 1980, as amended, 42 U.S.C. 9601 et
seq. (``CERCLA'') relating to the Auto Ion Superfund Site (``Site'') in
Kalamazoo.
The Consent Decree requires the sixty-three Settling Defendants to
design and implement the Second Operable Unit remedy selected by the
United States Environmental Protection Agency (``U.S. EPA''), which
addresses groundwater contamination at the Site. The estimated present
value of the groundwater remedy is approximately $565,000. The Consent
Decree also requires the Settling Defendants to reimburse the Superfund
in the amount of $360,000, plus prejudgment interest, for the United
States' past costs, and to pay certain future response costs, including
U.S. EPA's future oversight costs, to be incurred by the United States
relating to the Site.
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 in United States v.
Sheller Globe Corporation et al., D.J. Ref. 90-11-2-1107.
The Consent Decree may be examined at the Office of the United
States Attorney, Western District of Michigan, Gerald R. Ford Federal
Building and Courthouse, 110 Michigan Street, N.W., Room 399, Grand
Rapids, Michigan 49503, at the Region V Office of the Environmental
Protection Agency, 200 West Adams Street, Chicago, Illinois, 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 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 $26.75 (25 cents per page
reproduction cost) payable to the Consent Decree Library.
Bruce S. Gelber,
Deputy Chief, Environmental Enforcement Section, Environment and
Natural Resources Division.
[FR Doc. 96-30987 Filed 12-4-96; 8:45 am]
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