[Federal Register Volume 63, Number 104 (Monday, June 1, 1998)]
[Notices]
[Page 29751]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 98-14332]
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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 proposed consent decree in United
States v. Armstrong Rubber, Co., Civil No. 88-419, and United States v.
Atlantic Richfield Co., Civil No. 3-91-CV-248, consolidated by the
court under the heading B.F. Goodrich v. Murtha et al., Civil No. N-87-
52, was lodged on May 13, 1998, with the United States District Court
for the District of Connecticut. The decree resolves claims against
Armstrong Rubber Co., The Eastern Co., Gerald Metals, Inc. and Kerite
Co. in the above-referenced action under the Comprehensive
Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (``CERCLA''),
for contamination at the Laurel Park Landfill Superfund Site in the
Borough of Naugatuck, Connecticut (the ``Laurel Park Site'') and at the
Beacon Heights Superfund Site in Beacon Falls, Connecticut (the
``Beacon Heights Site''). In the proposed consent decree, the settling
defendants agree to reimburse the United States for $2.45 million in
past response costs incurred by the United States, and to waive and
dismiss their counterclaims against the United States. The Consent
Decree includes a covenant not to sue by the United States under
Sections 106, 107 and 113 of CERCLA.
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, D.C. 20530, and should refer to B.F.
Goodrich v. Murtha et al. DOJ Ref. Numbers 90-11-2-703 and 90-11-3-
132B.
The proposed consent decree may be examined at the Office of the
United States Attorney, Connecticut Financial Center, 157 Church St.,
New Haven, CT 06510, the New England Region Office of the Environmental
Protection Agency, JFK Federal Building, Boston, MA 02203-2211; 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 refer to the referenced case and enclose a check in the amount
of $8.25 for the Consent Decree (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. 98-14332 Filed 5-29-98; 8:45 am]
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