[Federal Register Volume 66, Number 158 (Wednesday, August 15, 2001)]
[Notices]
[Page 42876]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 01-20526]


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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE


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

    Under 42 U.S.C. 9622(i), notice is hereby given that on July 11, 
2001, two proposed Consent Decrees in United States v. Mountain Metal 
Co., et al., Civil Action No. CV-98-C-2562-S and CV-98-C-2886-S were 
lodged with the United States District Court for the Northern District 
of Alabama.
    In this action, the United States sought reimbursement of costs 
incurred in responding to the release and threatened release of 
hazardous substances at the ILCO battery cracking site in Leeds, 
Alabama. A group of previous settlers also sued to obtain contribution 
for their costs in performing work at the site. In these Consent 
Decrees, sixteen parties are settling their liability to the United 
States and the private plaintiffs by paying a total of $4,877,575. The 
settling parties include the following, as well as certain related 
individuals and entities: Mayfield Manufacturing Company, New Bern 
Street Realty, Elizabethton Herb & Metal, Red Ball Oxygen Co., 
Commercial Iron & Metals, IBS of Nashville, Resource Alloys and Metals, 
Aaron Scrap, Metropolitan Metals, Mathis Battery, Smith Metals, All 
Scrap Salvage, D & R Battery, Bob's Recycling, Denbo Iron & Metal, and 
Powerlab, Inc. Prior to these Consent Decrees, the United States 
obtained partial reimbursement of its costs through judicial 
settlements with 42 parties and administrative settlements with 286 
parties.
    The Department of Justice will receive for a period of thirty (30) 
days from the date of this publication comments relating to the Consent 
Decrees. Comments should be addressed to the Assistant Attorney 
General, Environment and Natural Resources Division, P.O. Box 7611, 
U.S. Department of Justice, Washington, D.C. 20044-7611, and should 
refer to United States v. Mountain Metal Co., et al., D.J. Ref. 90-11-
2-108/2.
    The Consent Decrees may be examined at the Office of the United 
States Attorney, 200 Robert S. Vance Fed. Bldg., 1800 5th Avenue N., 
Room 200, Birmingham, Alabama, and at U.S. EPA Region 4, 61 Forsyth 
Street, Atlanta, Georgia. A copy of the Consent Decrees may also be 
obtained by mail from the Consent Decree Library, P.O. Box 7611, U.S. 
Department of Justice, Washington, DC 20044-7611. In requesting a copy, 
please enclose a check in the amount of $34.75 (25 cents per page 
reproduction cost) payable to the Consent Decree Library.

Walker B. Smith,
Principal Deputy, Environmental Enforcement Section, Environment and 
Natural Resources Division.
[FR Doc. 01-20526 Filed 8-14-01; 8:45 am]
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