[Federal Register Volume 65, Number 196 (Tuesday, October 10, 2000)]
[Notices]
[Page 60211]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 00-25901]


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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE


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

    In accordance with Departmental policy, 28 CFR 50.7, notice is 
hereby given that on September 28, 2000, a proposed Consent Decree in 
United States v. TPI Petroleum, Inc., Civil Action No. 1:00-CV-732, was 
lodged with the United States District Court for the Western District 
of Michigan.
    The Consent Decree resolves certain claims of the United States 
against TPI Petroleum, Inc. under Sections 106 and 107(a) of CERCLA, 42 
U.S.C. 9606 and 9607(a) and Section 7003 of the Resource Conservation 
and Recovery Act (``RCRA''), 42 U.S.C. 6973 at the former Organic 
Chemical, Inc. facility (``the Site'') in Grandville, Kent County, 
Michigan. The defendant has been named as a former owner/operator of 
the Site at the time that hazardous substances were disposed of at the 
Site.
    The settlement requires the settling defendant to make payment of 
$674,431, plus interest from June 1998, for past response costs 
incurred by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency in connection with 
the Site and for settling defendant to perform the soil component of 
EPA's selected second phase or Operable Unit for the Site's 
remediation.
    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, 
United States Department of Justice, P.O. Box 7611, Ben Franklin 
Station, Washington, DC 20044-7611, and should refer to United States 
v. TPI Petroleum, Inc., Civil Action No. 1:00-CV-732, and the 
Department of Justice Reference No. 90-11-3-990A. Commenters may 
request an opportunity for a public hearing in the affected area, in 
accordance with Section 7003(d) of RCRA, 42 U.S.C. 6973(d), by 
contacting Jerome Kujawa (EPA Region 5) at (312) 886-6731.
    The proposed Consent Decree may be examined at the Office of the 
United States Attorney for the Western District of Michigan, 330 Ionia 
Avenue, NW., Suite 501, Grand Rapids, Michigan 49503; the Region 5 
Office of the United States Environmental Protection Agency, 77 West 
Jackson Boulevard, Chicago, Illinois 60604-3590. A copy of the proposed 
Consent Decree may also be obtained by mail from the Consent Decree 
Library, P.O. Box 7611, Ben Franklin Station, Washington, DC 20044-
7611. In requesting a copy, please refer to DJ #90-11-3-990A, and 
enclose a check in the amount of $18.50 (25 cents per page for 
reproduction costs), payable to the Consent Decree Library.

Bruce Gelber,
Deputy Chief, Environmental Enforcement Section, Environmental and 
Natural Resources Division.
[FR Doc. 00-25901 Filed 10-6-00; 8:45 am]
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