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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE
 

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

    Consistent with Departmental policy, 28 CFR 50.7, notice is hereby 
given that a proposed consent decree in United States v. Town of North 
Hempstead, Civil Action No. CV 90-3486, was lodged on September 16, 
1994 with the United States District Court for the Eastern District of 
New York. Defendant Town of North Hempstead (Town) is the owner and 
operator of the Port Washington Landfill Site. As a result of the 
Landfill's operation, the Site became contaminated with hazardous 
substances and the Site was placed on the National Priorities List. The 
Environmental Protection Agency performed a remedial investigation and 
feasibility study (RI/FS) to identify the nature and extent of the 
contamination at the Site and the examine how best to remediate the 
Site.
    Under the terms of the proposed decree, the Town will pay the 
Untied States the sum of $2.64 million of the total $3.5 million in 
costs incurred in performing the RI/FS as well as for other past costs 
the United States incurred at the Site. The $2.64 million will be paid 
in two equal installments, with the first installment being paid within 
thirty (30) days of the entry of the decree and the second installment 
being paid, along with interest, within two years of the entry of the 
decree. Under an earlier decree entered in 1991, the Town agreed to 
remediate the Site at an estimated cost of $45 million, and to 
reimburse EPA 100% of all future costs EPA incurs in overseeing the 
remediation of the Site.
    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, 
Department of Justice, Washington, D.C. 20530, and should refer to 
United States v. Town of North Hempstead, D.J. reference #90-11-2-514.
    The proposed consent decree may be examined at the Office of the 
United States Attorney for the Eastern District of New York, One 
Pierrepont Plaza, 14th floor, Brooklyn, New York; the Region II Office 
of the Environmental Protection Agency, 26 Federal Plaza, New York, New 
York; and at the Consent Decree Library, 1120 G Street, N.W., 4th 
Floor, Washington, D.C., 20005, (202) 624-0892. A copy of the proposed 
consent decree may be obtained in person or by mail from the Consent 
Decree Library, 1120 G Street, N.W. 4th Floor, Washington, D.C. In 
requesting a copy, please enclose a check in the amount of $5.50 (25 
cents per page reproduction costs), payable to the Consent Decree 
Library.
Joel Gross,
Acting Chief, Environmental Enforcement Section, Environment and 
Natural Resources Division.
[FR Doc. 94-24039 Filed 9-28-94; 8:45 am]
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