[Federal Register Volume 66, Number 121 (Friday, June 22, 2001)]
[Notices]
[Page 33557]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 01-15669]


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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE


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

    Pursuant to section 107 of the Comprehensive Environmental 
Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (``CERCLA''), 42 U.S.C. 9607, 
and 28 CFR 50.7, notice is hereby given that a proposed consent decree 
embodying a settlement in United States v. J.H. Baxter and Co., et al., 
No. C01-2024-SC was lodged on May 30, 2001, with the United States 
District Court for the Northern District of California.
    In a complaint filed concurrently with the lodging of the consent 
decree, the United States, on behalf of the Administrator of the United 
States Environmental Protection Agency (``EPA'') and pursuant to 
section 107 of CERCLA, 42 U.S.C. 9607, seeks reimbursement of response 
costs incurred and a declaratory judgment on defendant's liability for 
response costs to be incurred for response actions taken at or in 
connection with the release of hazardous substances at the J.H. Baxter 
Superfund Site in the City of Weed, Siskiyou County, California.
    The consent decree requires the settling defendants to pay the J.H. 
Baxter Special Account within the EPA Hazardous Substance Superfund, 
$1,310,300 in past response costs and to pay response costs incurred in 
the future. The consent decree also provides that the Superfund Site 
shall not be used for residential purposes and imposes other property 
restrictions.
    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, 
U.S. Department of Justice, Box 7611 Ben Franklin Station, Washington, 
DC 20044-7611, and should refer to United States v. J.H. Baxter and Co. 
et al., DOJ Ref. #90-11-3-06786.
    The proposed consent decree may be examined at the EPA Region 9 
Superfund Records Center, 75 Hawthorne Street, Fourth Floor, San 
Francisco, California 94105, and at the Office of the United States 
Attorney for the Northern District of California, 450 Golden Gate 
Avenue, 11th Floor, San Francisco, California 94102. A copy of the 
proposed consent decree may also be obtained by mail from the 
Department of Justice Consent Decree Library, Box 7611, Ben Franklin 
Station, Washington, DC 20044-7611. In requesting a copy, please refer 
to the referenced case and enclose a check in the amount of $11.75 (25 
cents per page reproduction costs), payable to the Consent Decree 
Library. A copy of the decree, exclusive of the defendants' signature 
pages and the attachments, may be obtained for $6.00.

Ellen Mahan,
Assistant Section Chief, Environmental Enforcement Section, Environment 
and Natural Resources Division.
[FR Doc. 01-15669 Filed 6-21-01; 8:45 am]
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