[Federal Register Volume 64, Number 65 (Tuesday, April 6, 1999)]
[Notices]
[Page 16749]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 99-8458]


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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 a proposed Consent Decree in United States and State 
of Connecticut v. A.G. Miller Company, Inc., et al., Civ. No. 399-CV-
0471 & 0473 (JCH), was lodged on March 16, 1999 with the United States 
District Court for the District of Connecticut. The United States' 
complaint seeks to recover, pursuant to the Comprehensive Environmental 
Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (``CERCLA''), 42 U.S.C. 9601, 
et al., future response costs to be incurred by EPA at the Old 
Southington Landfill Superfund Site located in the town of Southington, 
Connecticut (``Site'').
    The proposed Consent Decree embodies an agreement with 119 de 
minimis PRPs at the Site, pursuant to Section 122(g) of CERCLA, 42 
U.S.C. 9622(g), to pay $828,831, in aggregate, in settlement of claims 
for future response costs at the Site and claims for natural resource 
damages at the Site. Of this total, $814,573 will be paid to the United 
States and $14,258 will be paid to the Department of the Interior 
(``DOI''). The monies paid to the United States will be set aside for 
the purpose of funding future response actions at the Site, including a 
possible future groundwater remedy. The monies paid to DOI will be set 
aside to fund a future natural resource damages restoration project in 
connection with the Site.
    The proposed Consent Decree provides the 119 de minimis settling 
defendants with a release for civil liability for EPA's and the State's 
future CERCLA response costs and natural resource damages at the Site 
for resources under the trusteeship of the Secretary of the Interior 
and the Secretary of Commerce, through the National Oceanic and 
Atmospheric Administration, and under the trusteeship of the State.
    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, 
P.O. Box 7611, Ben Franklin Station, Washington, D.C. 20044, and should 
refer to United States and State of Connecticut v. A.G. Miller Company, 
Inc., et al., DOJ Ref. No. 90-11-2-420/1.
    The proposed consent decree may be examined at the Office of the 
United States Attorney, U.S. Courthouse, 915 Lafayette Blvd., Rm. 309, 
Bridgeport, CT 06604; the Region I Office of the Environmental 
Protection Agency, Region I Records Center, 90 Canal Street, Fourth 
Floor, Boston, MA 02203; and at the Consent Decree Library, 1120 G 
Street, N.W., Third 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, Third Floor, N.W., 
Washington, D.C. 20005. In requesting a copy, please refer to the 
referenced case and enclose a check in the amount of $35.50 (25 cents 
per page reproduction costs), payable to the Consent Decree Library.
Joel Gross,
Chief, Environmental Enforcement Section, Environment and Natural 
Resources Division.
[FR Doc. 99-8458 Filed 4-5-99; 8:45 am]
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