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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 April 7, 1994, a proposed Consent Decree in United 
States and State of New Hampshire versus Conductron Corporation et al., 
Civil No. 94-174-L, was lodged with the United States District Court 
for the District of New Hampshire resolving these matters. The proposed 
Consent Decree concerns response actions for releases into the 
environment of hazardous substances, and restoration of natural 
resources, at the Savage Municipal Water Supply Well Superfund Site 
(the ``Savage Site'') located in Milford, New Hampshire, pursuant to 
the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability 
Act (``CERCLA''), 42 U.S.C. 9601 et seq.
    Under the terms of the Consent Decree, Conductron Corporation d/b/a 
Hendrix & Cable and Hendrix Real Estate Trust (``Hendrix''), and 
Hitchiner Manufacturing Co., Inc. (``Hitchiner'') will undertake 
response actions for an area of the Savage Site, including extraction 
and treatment of contaminated groundwater, long-term monitoring, and 
institutional controls to protect human health, estimated to cost 
approximately $15 million, and will reimburse the United States and the 
State of New Hampshire for a total of approximately $1 million of their 
past costs related to the Savage Site and up to approximately $3 
million in future oversight costs.
    The Consent Decree also requires Hendrix and Hitchiner to undertake 
measures to protect and restore natural resources, including fish, at 
the Savage Site, involving testing and possible excavation of sediments 
from the process waste drainage stream known as the ``Hitchiner-Hendrix 
Discharge Stream'' that discharges into the Souhegan River. The 
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (``NOAA''), the U.S. 
Department of the Interior and the State of New Hampshire, as trustees 
of natural resources under CERCLA, have agreed to give the settling 
defendants a covenant not to sue for natural resources damage in 
consideration of this work. The settling defendants will also pay the 
trustees' future costs.
    The U.S. 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 Environmental and Natural Resources Division, 
Department of Justice, P.O. Box 7611, Ben Franklin Station, Washington, 
D.C. 20044-7611, and should refer to United States v. Conductron 
Corporation, D.J. Ref. 90-11-3-970.
    The proposed Consent Decree may be examined at the Region 1 Office 
of the Environmental Protection Agency, One Congress Street, Boston, 
Massachusetts. Copies of the Consent Decree also may be examined at the 
Environmental Enforcement Section Document Center, 1120 G Street, NW., 
4th Floor, Washington, DC 20005, (202) 624-0892. A copy of the proposed 
Consent Decree (excluding Appendices) may be obtained in person or by 
mail from the Document Center. In requesting a copy, please refer to 
the referenced case and enclose a check in the amount of $132.50 (25 
cents per page reproduction cost) for the Consent Decree and 
Appendices, made payable to Consent Decree Library.
John C. Cruden,
Chief, Environment Enforcement Section, Environment and Natural 
Resources Division.
[FR Doc. 94-9528 Filed 4-19-94; 8:45 am]
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