[Federal Register Volume 67, Number 129 (Friday, July 5, 2002)]
[Notices]
[Page 44879]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 02-16780]


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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE


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

    Notice is hereby given that on June 21, 2002, a proposed consent 
decree in United States v. South Jersey Clothing Company, Inc. Civil 
Action No. 96-3166 (JBS), was lodged with the United States District 
Court for the District of New Jersey.
    In this action, the United States alleged under section 107 of the 
Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act 
(CERCLA), 42 U.S.C. 9607, that South Jersey Clothing Company, Inc., is 
liable for the costs in responding to the release or threatened release 
of hazardous substances at the South Jersey Clothing Company/Garden 
State Cleaners Superfund Sites in Minotola, New Jersey (the Sites). 
Under the terms of the proposed consent decree, the United States and 
the State of New Jersey will be paid $4,285,102.00 as reimbursement for 
past and future response costs with respect to the Sites.
    The Department of Justice will receive for a period of thirty (30) 
days from the date of this publication comments relating to the 
proposed partial consent decree. Comments should be addressed to the 
Assistant Attorney General of the Environment and Natural Resources 
Division, Department of Justice, Washington, DC 20530.
    The proposed consent decree may be examined at the Office of the 
United States Attorney, District of New Jersey, U.S. Courthouse, One 
John F. Gerry Plaza, Camden, New Jersey, and at U.S. Environmental 
Protection Agency Region II, 290 Broadway, New York, New York. A copy 
of the proposed consent decree may also be obtained by mail from the 
Consent Decree Library, PO Box 7611, U.S. Department of Justice, 
Washington, DC 20044-7611, or by faxing a request to Tonia Fleetwood, 
fax no. (202) 514-0097, phone confirmation number (202) 514-1547. If 
requesting a copy of the proposed consent decree (without appendices), 
please so note and enclose a check in the amount of $11.00 (25 cent per 
page reproduction cost) payable to the U.S. Treasury.

Ronald Gluck,
Assistant Chief, Environmental Enforcement Section, Environment and 
Natural Resources Division.
[FR Doc. 02-16780 Filed 7-3-02; 8:45 am]
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