[Federal Register Volume 66, Number 121 (Friday, June 22, 2001)]
[Notices]
[Pages 33556-33557]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 01-15670]


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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 Departmental policy, 28 CFR 50.7, notice is 
hereby given that on June 6, 2001, a proposed Consent Decree 
(``Decree'') in United States v. Central Illinois Public Service 
Company, et al., Civil Action No. 01-00586CV-W1 (W.D. Missouri) was 
lodged with the United States District Court for the Western District 
of Missouri.
    The United States brought this action on behalf of the United 
States Environmental Protection Agency (``EPA'') against Defendants 
Central Illinois Public Service Company, Central Louisiana Electric 
Company, Inc., Colorado Springs Department of Utilities, Commonwealth 
Edison Company, General Motors Corporation, Illinois Power Company, 
Interstate Power Company, Kansas Power & Light Company, Louisiana Power 
& Light Company/New Orleans Public Service, Inc., Midwest Energy 
Systems, Inc., Missouri Public Service Company, New England Power 
Service Company, Oklahoma Gas & Electric Company, Omaha Public Power 
District, Southwestern Electric Power Company, and West Texas Utilities 
Company (``Settling Defendants'') pursuant to Sections 107 and 
113(g)(2) of the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and 
Liability Act, as amended, 42 U.S.C. 9607 and 9613(g)(2), for 
declaratory relief and recovery of certain past response costs incurred 
by the United States in connection with the Martha C. Rose Chemicals, 
Inc. Superfund Site (``Site'') located in Holden, Missouri. The Decree 
provides that the Settling Defendants will pay $173,700.49 in 
satisfaction of the United States' claims against them.
    The Department of Justice will receive, for a period of thirty (30) 
days from the date of this publication, comments relating to the 
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. Central Illinois Public Service Company, et al., Civil 
Action No. 01-00586CV-W1, D.J. Ref. No. 90-11-2-226C.
    The Decree may be examined at the Office of the United States 
Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, Charles Evans Whittaker 
Courthouse, Fifth Floor, 400 East 9th Street, Kansas City, Missouri 
64106, and at U.S. EPA Region VII, 901 N. 5th Street, Kansas City, 
Kansas 66101. A copy of the Decree 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 $9.75 (25 cents per page reproduction

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cost) payable to the Consent Decree Library.

Robert E. Maher,
Assistant Chief, Environmental Enforcement Section, Environment and 
Natural Resources Division.
[FR Doc. 01-15670 Filed 6-21-01; 8:45 am]
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