[Federal Register Volume 64, Number 121 (Thursday, June 24, 1999)]
[Notices]
[Pages 33907-33908]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 99-16118]
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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE
Notice of Lodging of Consent Decree Pursuant To the Comprehensive
Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act and Resource
Conservation and Recovery Act
In accordance with Departmental policy, 28 CFR 50.7, notice is
hereby given that on June 11, 1999 a proposed Consent Decree in United
States v. Abitibi Price Corporation, et al., Civil Action No.
1:99CV428, was lodged with the United States District Court for the
Western District of Michigan.
The Consent Decree resolves certain claims of the United States
against 43 companies under Sections 106 and 107(a) of CERCLA, 42 U.S.C.
Secs. 9606 and 9607(a) and Section 7003 of the Resource Conservation
and Recovery Act (``RCRA''), 42 U.S.C. Sec. 6973 at the former Organic
Chemical, Inc. facility (``the Site'') in Grandville, Kent County,
Michigan. The defendants have been
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named as companies which arranged for disposal or treatment of
hazardous substances at the Site.
The settlement requires the settling defendants to make payment of
$3,300,000 for past response costs incurred by the U.S. Environmental
Protection Agency in connection with the Site and for certain of the
settling defendants to perform the groundwater component of EPA's
selected second phase or Operable Unit for the Site's remediation.
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,
United States Department of Justice, P.O. Box 7611, Ben Franklin
Station, Washington, D.C. 20044-7611, and should refer to United States
v. Abitibi Price Corporation, et al., Civil Action No. 1:99CV428, and
the Department of Justice Reference No. 90-11-3-990/1. Commenters may
request an opportunity for a public hearing in the affected area, in
accordance with Section 7003(d) of RCRA, 42 U.S.C. Sec. 6973(d), by
contacting Jerome Kujawa (EPA Region 5) at (312) 886-6731. The proposed
Consent Decree may be examined at the Office of the United States
Attorney for the Western District of Michigan, 330 Ionia Avenue, NW,
Suite 501, Grand Rapids, Michigan 49503; the Region 5 Office of the
United States Environmental Protection Agency, 77 West Jackson
Boulevard, Chicago, Illinois 60604-3590; and at the Consent Decree
Library, 1120 G Street, N.W., 3rd Floor, Washington, D.C. 20005,
telephone no. (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., 3rd Floor, Washington, D.C. 20005. In requesting a
copy, please refer to DJ #90-11-3-990/1, and enclose a check in the
amount of $57.25 (25 cents per page for reproduction costs), payable to
the Consent Decree Library.
Joel M. Gross,
Chief, Environmental Enforcement Section, Environment and Natural
Resources Division.
[FR Doc. 99-16118 Filed 6-23-99; 8:45 am]
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