[Federal Register Volume 67, Number 60 (Thursday, March 28, 2002)]
[Notices]
[Pages 14975-14976]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 02-7418]


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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 and 42 U.S.C. 9622(d)(2), 
notice is hereby given that on March 13, 2002, a proposed consent 
decree in a case captioned United States v. A.O. Smith Corp., et al., 
Civil Action No. 1:02-CV-0168 (W.D. Mich.) was lodged with the United 
States District Court for the Western District of Michigan. The 
proposed consent decree relates to the Ionia City Landfill Superfund 
Site (``Site'') in the City of Ionia, Ionia County, Michigan.
    In a compliant that was filed simultaneously with the Consent 
Decree, the United States sought recovery of response costs and 
performance of response actions at the Site pursuant to Sections 106(a) 
and 107(a) of the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, 
and Liability Act, as amended, 42 U.S.C. 9606(a), 9607(a), against A.O. 
Smith Corp., the City of Ionia, Consumers Energy Co., Federal-Mogul 
Corp., General Motors Corp., Kmart Corp., the Michigan Department of 
Corrections, and Premiere Agri Technologies, Inc. (the ``Defendants'').

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Under the proposed consent decree, the Defendants will perform the 
remedy selected in a Record of Decision that EPA issued for the Site on 
September 28, 2000. The remedy includes restricting access to and 
development of certain portions of the Site; maintaining the existing 
groundwater treatment system; maintaining institutional controls; and 
monitoring the natural attenuation that is taking place. Defendant A.O. 
Smith also agrees to pay all future response costs at the Site. Under a 
prior Consent Decree, the Defendants already had paid all past response 
costs.
    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 of the Environment and Natural Resource Division, 
Department of Justice, Washington, DC 20530, and should refer to United 
States v. A.O. Smith Corp., et al., Civil Action No. 1:02-CV-0168 (W.D. 
Mich.) and DOJ Reference No. 90-11-2-476/1.
    The proposed consent decree may be examined at: (1) the Office of 
the United States Attorney for the Western District of Michigan, 330 
Ionia Ave., NW., Grand Rapids, MI 49503; and (2) the United States 
Environmental Protection Agency (Region 5), 77 West Jackson Boulevard, 
Chicago, Illinois 60604-3590. Copies of the proposed consent decree may 
be obtained by mail from the Department of Justice Consent Decree 
Library, P.O. Box 7611, Washington, DC 20044. In requesting copies from 
the Consent Decree Library, please refer to the above-referenced case 
and DOJ Reference Number 90-11-2-476/1 and enclose a check for $81.00 
(324 pages at 25 cents per page reproduction cost) made payable to the 
Consent Decree Library.

William D. Brighton,
Assistant Section Chief, Environmental Enforcement Section, Environment 
and Natural Resources Division.
[FR Doc. 02-7418 Filed 3-27-02; 8:45 am]
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