[Federal Register Volume 64, Number 188 (Wednesday, September 29, 1999)]
[Notices]
[Page 52528]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 99-25339]
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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE
Notice of Lodging of Consent Decree Pursuant to the Comprehensive
Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980, as
Amended
Consistent with Departmental policy, 28 CFR 50.7, 30 FR 19029, and
42 U.S.C. 9622(d), notice is hereby given that on September 13, 1999, a
proposed Consent Decree in United States of America v. Glen Cove
Development Company and Village Green Realty at Garvies Point, Inc.,
Civil Action No. CV-99-5600, was lodged with the United States District
Court for the Eastern District of New York. The proposed Consent Decree
will resolve the United States' claims under the Comprehensive
Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (``CERCLA''),
42 U.S.C. 9601 et seq., on behalf of the U.S. Environmental Protection
Agency (``EPA''), against defendants glen Cove Development Company and
Village Green Realty at Garvies Point, Inc. (the ``Settling
Defendants''), with respect to the Li Tungsten Superfund Site located
in Glen Cove, Nassau County, New York. The Complaint alleges that the
Settling Defendants are liable as current owners within the meaning of
section 107(a)(1) of CERCLA, 42 U.S.C. 9607(a)(1). The proposed Consent
Decree also will resolve any liability with respect to the Li Tungsten
Superfund Site of certain entities related to the Settling Defendants,
namely Old Court Holding Company, Old Court Joint Ventures, Inc., and
Old Court Savings and Loan, Inc., (In Receivership). Pursuant to the
Consent Decree, the Settling Defendants, and Old Court Holding Company,
Old Court Joint Ventures, Inc. and Old Court Savings and Loan, Inc. (In
Receivership) jointly will pay to the United States $325,000.00 in
reimbursement of response costs incurred or to be incurred by EPA or
the Department of Justice at or in connection with the Li Tungsten
Superfund Site.
The Department of Justice will receive for a period of fifteen (15)
days from the date of this publication comments relating to the
proposed consent decree. Any comments should be addressed to the
Assistant Attorney General of the Environment and Natural Resources
Division, Department of Justice, Washington, DC 20530, and should refer
to United States of America v. Glen Cove Development Company and
Village Green Realty at Garvies Point, Inc., Civil Action No. CV-99-
5600, D.J. Ref. 90-11-3-06561/1.
The proposed consent decree may be examined at the Office of the
United States Attorney, Eastern District of New York, One Pierrepont
Plaza, 14th Floor, Brooklyn, New York 11201 and at Region II, Office of
the Environmental Protection Agency, 290 Broadway, New York, NY 10007-
1866. A copy of the proposed consent decree may also be obtained by
mail from the Department of Justice Consent Decree Library, PO Box
7611, Washington, DC 20044. In requesting a copy, please enclose a
check (there is a 25 cent per page reproduction cost) in the amount of
$10.25 payable to the Consent Decree Library. If a copy of the Consent
Decree without the attachments is sufficient, please specify that fact
and enclose a check in the amount of $9.50.
Joel M. Gross,
Chief, Environmental Enforcement Section, Environment and Natural
Resources Division.
[FR Doc. 99-25339 Filed 9-28-99; 8:45 am]
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