[Federal Register Volume 65, Number 155 (Thursday, August 10, 2000)]
[Notices]
[Page 49015]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 00-20291]


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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE


Notice of Lodging of a Consent Decree Pursuant to the 
Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act

    Notice is hereby given that a proposed consent decree in United 
States v. Motorola, Inc., Honeywell International, Inc., and City of 
Phoenix, Arizona, Civil No. 98-2049 PHX-RCB, was lodged on July 25, 
2000, with the United States District Court for the District of Arizona 
(``Motorola Decree''). The proposed consent Decree would resolve 
certain claims under Section 107 of the Comprehensive Environmental 
Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980, 42 U.S.C. 9607, as 
amended, brought against defendants Motorola, Incorporated, Honeywell 
International, Inc., and the city of Phoenix, Arizona (collectively 
``Settling Defendants''), to recover response costs incurred by the 
Environmental Protection Agency in connection with the release of 
hazardous substances at Operable Units 1 and 2 of the Motorola 52nd 
Street Superfund Site in Phoenix, Arizona. The settlers are owners and/
or operators of Operable Units 1 and 2 of the Site. Under the proposed 
Consent Decree, the Settling Defendants will pay $682,500 to the 
Hazardous Substances Superfund to reimburse the United States for Past 
Response Costs, 80% of Interim Response Costs, and all Future Oversight 
Costs. In addition to the proposed Consent Decree, Motorola and 
Honeywell are completing construction of the interim groundwater remedy 
for Operable Unit 2 of the site and will perform the first two years of 
operation and maintenance of the interim remedy.
    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, Washington, D.C. 20530, and 
should refer to United States v. Motorola, Inc., et al., D. AZ, Civil 
No. 98-2049 PHX-RCB, DOJ Ref. #90-11-3-06000.
    The Consent Decree may be examined at the Region 9 Office of the 
Environmental Protection Agency, 75 Hawthorne Street, San Francisco, CA 
94105 and the United States Attorney's Office for the District of 
Arizona, 230 N. First Avenue, Room 4000, Phoenix, AZ 85025 c/o 
Assistant U.S. Attorney Ronald Gallegos. A copy of the proposed consent 
decree may be obtained by mail from the Consent Decree Library, Post 
Office Box 7611, Washington, DC 20044. In requesting copies please 
refer to the referenced case and enclose a check in the amount of 
$11.25 (25 cents per page reproduction costs), payable to the Consent 
Decree Library.

Joel M. Gross,
Chief, Environmental Enforcement Section, Environment and Natural 
Resources Division.
[FR Doc. 00-20291 Filed 8-9-00; 8:45 am]
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