[Federal Register Volume 66, Number 99 (Tuesday, May 22, 2001)]
[Notices]
[Page 28199]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 01-12856]


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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 a Consent Decree in United States v. Applied Science 
Laboratories, Inc., et al. (E.D. Va.) Civil Action No. 99CV834, was 
lodged on May 12, 2001, with the United States District Court for the 
Eastern District of Virginia. The Consent Decree resolves the claims of 
the United States under section 107 of the Comprehensive Environmental 
Response, Compensation, and Liability Act, as amended (``CERCLA''), for 
reimbursement of the United States' past response costs incurred in 
responding to contamination at the Applied Science Laboratories 
Superfund Site located in Richmond, Virginia. The Consent Decree 
obligates the estates of John F. Neves and Mattie R. Neves to sell the 
real property at 2216 Hull Street, Richmond, Virginia, and pay the 
first $50,000 of the proceeds from the sale to the United States in 
reimbursement of the past response costs incurred by EPA; the heirs 
will keep the next $10,000 and any balance above that will be divided 
evenly between the United States and the heirs.
    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 Environmental and Natural Resources Division, 
Department of Justice, Washington, DC 20530, and should refer to United 
States v. Applied Science Laboratories, Inc., DOJ Ref. #90-11-3-07015.
    The Consent Decree may be examined at the Region III Office of the 
Environmental Protection Agency, 1650 Arch Street, Philadelphia, 
Pennsylvania 19103; and by mail from the Consent Decree Library, 
Department of Justice, PO Box 7611, Washington, DC 20044-7611. In 
requesting a copy from the Consent Decree Library, please refer to the 
referenced case and enclose a check in the amount of $5.00, payable to 
the U.S. Treasury.

Robert Brook,
Assistant Section Chief, Environmental Enforcement Section, Environment 
and Natural Resources Division.
[FR Doc. 01-12856 Filed 5-21-01; 8:45 am]
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