[Federal Register Volume 65, Number 204 (Friday, October 20, 2000)]
[Notices]
[Page 63098]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 00-27007]


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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE


Notice of Lodging of Consent Decree Pursuant to the Comprehensive 
Environmental Response Compensation and Liability Act (``CERCLA'')

    Notice is hereby given that a proposed consent decree in United 
States v. Cabot Corp., et al, Civ. No. 00-cv-4265 (SMO) (D.N.J.), was 
lodged on August 31, 2000 with the United States District Court for the 
District of New Jersey. The Consent Decree concerns hazardous waste 
contamination at the King of Prussia Superfund Site (the ``Site''), 
located on Piney Hollow Road in Winslow Township, New Jersey. The 
Consent Decree would resolve the liability for reimbursement of past 
response costs incurred by the United States in connection with the 
Site as to Cabot Corporation, Carpenter Technology Corporation; Ford 
Motor Company; Johnson Matthey Inc.; and Rutgers Organics Corporation 
against whom the United States filed a complaint on behalf of the 
United States Environmental Protection Agency (``EPA''). The Consent 
Decree requires the settling defendants to reimburse the EPA Hazardous 
Substance Superfund $1,700,000 for its past costs pertaining to 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, Environment and Natural Resources Division, P.O. Box 
7611, U.S. Department of Justice, Washington, DC 20044-7611, and should 
refer to United States v. Cabot Corp., et al., DOJ Ref. #90-11-3-06970.
    The proposed consent decree may be examined at the office of the 
United States Attorney for the District of New Jersey, 970 Broad 
Street, Room 502, Newark, New Jersey, 07102 (contact Assistant United 
States Attorney Susan Cassell); and the Region II Office of the 
Environmental Protection Agency, 290 Broadway, New York, New York 
10007-1866 (contact Assistant Regional Counsel, Deborah Schwenk). A 
copy of the proposed consent decree may be obtained by mail from the 
Consent Decree Library, P.O. Box 7611, Washington, DC 20044-7611. In 
requesting a copy please refer to the referenced case and enclose a 
check in the amount of $8.25 (25 cents per page reproduction costs) for 
the Consent Decree without Appendices, or in the amount of $11.50 for 
the Consent Decree with all Appendices, payable to the Consent Decree 
Library.

Bruce S. Gelber,
Chief, Environmental Enforcement Section, Environment and Natural 
Resources Division.
[FR Doc. 00-27007 Filed 10-19-00; 8:45 am]
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