[Federal Register Volume 63, Number 124 (Monday, June 29, 1998)]
[Notices]
[Page 35280]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 98-17181]
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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 Department policy, 28 C.F.R. Sec. 50.7, notice
is hereby given that a proposed consent decree in United States v.
Keystone Sanitation Company, Inc., et al., Civil Action No. 1:CV-93-
1482, was lodged on with the United States Court for the Middle
District of Pennsylvania on June 23, 1998.
The proposed consent decree pertains to the Keystone Sanitation
Superfund Site (``Site''), located near Hanover, Pennsylvania. The
United States had sued a number of defendants pursuant to Section 107
of the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and
Liability Act (``CERCLA''), 42 U.S.C. 9607, to recover past response
costs incurred at the Site. In the settlement, eight generator
defendants agree to perform on-site and off-site groundwater
remediation in exchange for a site-wide covenant not to sue under
Section 106 and 107 of CERCLA, 42 U.S.C. 9606 and 9607, and Section
7003 of the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act, 42 U.S.C. 6673.
They also agree to pay $125,000 toward natural resource damages in
exchange for a covenant not to sue under Section 107 of CERCLA, 42
U.S.C. 9607, for natural resource damages. The settling generator
defendants also agree to reimburse $13,000 of the past response costs
incurred by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in connection with the
Site, and to pay $30,000 toward state natural resource damages, and in
exchange the Commonwealth provides similar covenants not to sue under
CERCLA, RCRA, and the state statutory counterparts. The settling
generator defendants receive contribution protection for matters
addressed in the settlement, and waive all existing claims against the
plaintiffs and all generator or transporter parties, as well as future
claims for contribution as to generators and transporters contributing
less than 18,000 cubic yards of municipal solid wastes 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
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
United States v. Keystone Sanitation Company, et al., DOJ Ref. # 90-11-
2-656A.
The proposed consent decree may be examined at the office of the
United States Attorney, Middle District of Pennsylvania, 228 Walnut
Street, Harrisburg, PA 17108; the Region III Office of the
Environmental Protection Agency, 841 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, PA
19107; and at the Consent Decree Library, 1120 G Street, NW., 4th
Floor, Washington, DC 20005, (202) 624-0892. A copy of the proposed
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 a
check in the amount of $125.00 payable to the Consent Decree Library.
Joel Gross,
Chief, Environmental Enforcement Section, Environment and Natural
Resources Division.
[FR Doc. 98-17181 Filed 6-26-98; 8:45 am]
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