[Federal Register Volume 61, Number 72 (Friday, April 12, 1996)]
[Notices]
[Pages 16265-16266]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 96-9120]
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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE
Notice of Lodging of Consent Decree Pursuant to the Resource
Conservation and Recovery Liability Act
In accordance with Departmental policy, 28 CFR 50.7, notice is
hereby given that a proposed consent decree amendment in United States
v. Eljer Industries, Inc. and Eljer Manufacturing, Inc., Civil Action
No. C87-2693Y, was lodged on March 14, 1996 with the United States
District Court for the Southern District of Ohio. The proposed consent
decree amendment will resolve claims against Eljer for stipulated
penalties accruing under the terms of a 1990 consent decree that
settled claims for violations of the Resource Conservation and Recovery
Act, 42 U.S.C. 6901 et seq., at Eljer's Salem Ohio plant. Under the
proposed Consent Decree amendment, Eljer agrees to pay $175,000 in
stipulated penalties, and provisions in the 1990 decree relating to
liability coverage for closure work at the Salem plant are modified to
provide a ``best efforts'' commitment to obtain liability coverage.
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. Eljer Industries, Inc. and Eljer Manufacturing, Inc., Civil
Action No. C87-2693Y, and the Department of Justice Reference No. 90-7-
1-431A.
The proposed consent decree may be examined at the Office of the
United States Attorney, Northern District of Ohio, 208 Federal
Building, 2 South Main Street, Akron, Ohio 44308; the Region 5 Office
of the Environmental Protection Agency, 77 West Jackson Boulevard,
Chicago, Illinois 60604-3590; and at the Consent Decree Library, 1120 G
Street, NW., 4th Floor, Washington, DC 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, NW., 4th Floor, Washington,
DC 20005. In requesting a copy, please refer to the referenced case and
enclose
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a check in the amount of $2.00 (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. 96-9120 Filed 4-11-96; 8:45 am]
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