[Federal Register Volume 59, Number 76 (Wednesday, April 20, 1994)]
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From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 94-9528]
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[Federal Register: April 20, 1994]
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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE
Notice of Lodging of Consent Decree Pursuant to the Comprehensive
Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act
In accordance with Departmental policy, 28 CFR 50.7, notice is
hereby given that on April 7, 1994, a proposed Consent Decree in United
States and State of New Hampshire versus Conductron Corporation et al.,
Civil No. 94-174-L, was lodged with the United States District Court
for the District of New Hampshire resolving these matters. The proposed
Consent Decree concerns response actions for releases into the
environment of hazardous substances, and restoration of natural
resources, at the Savage Municipal Water Supply Well Superfund Site
(the ``Savage Site'') located in Milford, New Hampshire, pursuant to
the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability
Act (``CERCLA''), 42 U.S.C. 9601 et seq.
Under the terms of the Consent Decree, Conductron Corporation d/b/a
Hendrix & Cable and Hendrix Real Estate Trust (``Hendrix''), and
Hitchiner Manufacturing Co., Inc. (``Hitchiner'') will undertake
response actions for an area of the Savage Site, including extraction
and treatment of contaminated groundwater, long-term monitoring, and
institutional controls to protect human health, estimated to cost
approximately $15 million, and will reimburse the United States and the
State of New Hampshire for a total of approximately $1 million of their
past costs related to the Savage Site and up to approximately $3
million in future oversight costs.
The Consent Decree also requires Hendrix and Hitchiner to undertake
measures to protect and restore natural resources, including fish, at
the Savage Site, involving testing and possible excavation of sediments
from the process waste drainage stream known as the ``Hitchiner-Hendrix
Discharge Stream'' that discharges into the Souhegan River. The
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (``NOAA''), the U.S.
Department of the Interior and the State of New Hampshire, as trustees
of natural resources under CERCLA, have agreed to give the settling
defendants a covenant not to sue for natural resources damage in
consideration of this work. The settling defendants will also pay the
trustees' future costs.
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 Environmental 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. Conductron
Corporation, D.J. Ref. 90-11-3-970.
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, NW.,
4th Floor, Washington, DC 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 $132.50 (25
cents per page reproduction cost) for the Consent Decree and
Appendices, made payable to Consent Decree Library.
John C. Cruden,
Chief, Environment Enforcement Section, Environment and Natural
Resources Division.
[FR Doc. 94-9528 Filed 4-19-94; 8:45 am]
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