[Federal Register Volume 65, Number 183 (Wednesday, September 20, 2000)]
[Notices]
[Pages 56924-56925]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 00-24082]


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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 Department policy, the Department of Justice 
gives notice that a proposed partial consent decree in the consolidated 
cases captioned United States v. Cantrell, et al., Civil Action No. C-
1-97-981 (S.D. Ohio) and United States v. Ohio Power Co., et al., Civil 
Action No. C-1-98-247 (S.D. Ohio) was lodged with the United States 
District Court for the Southern District of Ohio, Western Division, on 
September 1, 2000, pertaining to the Automatic Containers Superfund 
Site (the ``Site''), located near Ironton, in Lawrence County, Ohio. 
The proposed consent decree would resolve certain civil claims of the 
United States for recovery of unreimbursed past response costs under 
section 107 of the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation 
and Liability Act, as amended (``CERCLA''), 42 U.S.C. 9607, against one 
defendant, Amcast Industrial Corporation (``Amcast'').
    Through seven prior partial consent decrees approved by the Court, 
the United States settled with 34 first-party and third-party 
defendants, recovering nearly $960,000 in CERCLA response costs that 
the United States has to date incurred in connection with the Site. The 
proposed consent decree, captioned ``Partical Consent Decree with 
Settling Defendant Amcast Industrial Corporation (f/k/a Dayton 
Malleable, Inc.),'' would provide for payment of an additional 
$650,000, which is substantially all of the United States' remaining 
past response costs for the Site. The proposed Consent Decree also 
would constitute a declaratory judgment that Amcast is responsible for 
any future CERCLA response costs associated with 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, United 
States Department of Justice, Washington, D.C. 20530, and should refer 
to United States

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v. Cantrell, et al., Civil Action No. C-1-97-981 (S.D. Ohio) and United 
States v. Ohio Power Co., et al., Civil Action No C-1-98-247 (S.D. 
Ohio), and DOJ Reference Nos. 90-11-3-1756 and 90-11-3-1756/1.
    The proposed consent decree may be examined at: (1) the Office of 
the United States Attorney for the Southern District of Ohio, 220 U.S. 
Courthouse, 100 East Fifth Street, Cincinnati, Ohio 45202 (contact 
Gerald Kaminski (513-684-3711)); and (2) the United States 
Environmental Protection Agency (Region 5), 77 West Jackson Boulevard, 
Chicago, Illinois 60604-3590 (contact Mony Chabria (312-886-6842)). A 
copy of the proposed consent decree may also be obtained by mail from 
the Department of Justice Consent Decree Library, P.O. Box 7611, 
Washington, DC 20044. In requesting copies, please refer to the 
referenced cases and DOJ Reference Numbers, and enclose a check for 
$6.50 (26 pages at 25 cents per page reproduction cost), made payable 
to the Consent Decree Library.

Walker B. Smith,
Deputy Chief, Environmental Enforcement Section, Environment and 
Natural Resources Division.
[FR Doc. 00-24082 Filed 9-19-00; 8:45 am]
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