[Federal Register Volume 65, Number 195 (Friday, October 6, 2000)]
[Notices]
[Pages 59872-59873]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 00-25715]


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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 Consent Decree in United States v. The Berkley 
Products Company, Civil Action. No. 00-CV-4628, was lodged on September 
12, 2000, with the United States District Court for the Eastern 
District of

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Pennsylvania. The Consent Decree resolves the claims of the United 
States under sections 106(a), 107(a), and 113(g)(2) of the 
Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act, 
as amended (``CERCLA''), for reimbursement of response costs incurred 
at the Berkley Products Superfund Site located in West Cocalico 
Township, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, and for declaratory judgment 
as to liability that will be binding in actions to recover further 
response costs related to the Site. The Consent Decree obligates The 
Berkley Products Company to pay $30,000 in reimbursement of response 
costs incurred and to be incurred by EPA in responding to contamination 
at 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, DC, 20530, and should refer toUnited 
States v. The Berkley Products Company, DOJ Ref. #90-11-3-06947.
    The Consent Decree may be examined at the office of the United 
States Attorney, 615 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 
19106; the Region III Office of the Environmental Protection Agency, 
1650 Arch Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 19103; and by mail from 
the Consent Decree Library, Department of Justice, P.O. Box 7611, 
Washington, DC 20044-7611. In requesting a copy from the Consent Decree 
Library, please refer to the referenced case and enclose a check in the 
amount of $8.00 (25 cents per page reproduction cost), payable to the 
U.S. Treasury.

Walker Smith,
Deputy Chief, Environmental Enforcement Section, Environment and 
Natural Resources Division.
[FR Doc. 00-25715 Filed 10-5-00; 8:45 am]
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