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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE
 

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

    Notice is hereby given that on October 12, 1994, a proposed Consent 
Decree in United States v. OK Tool Co., Inc., et al., Civil No. 94-518-
B, was lodged with the United States District Court for the District of 
New Hampshire, resolving the defendants' liability under the 
Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act 
(``CERCLA''), 42 U.S.C. Sec. 9601 et seq., and the Federal Debt 
Collection Procedures Act, 28 U.S.C. Sec. 3001 et seq., for costs 
incurred and to be incurred in responding to releases or threatened 
releases into the environment of hazardous substances at the Savage 
Municipal Water Supply Well Superfund Site (the ``Savage Site'') 
located in Milford, New Hampshire.
    Under the terms of the Consent Decree, OK Tool Co., Inc., OK Tool 
Holdings, Inc., Crafts Precision Industries, Inc., Corinthian 
Properties, Inc., John C. Pappas, Jr., Williams & Hussey Machine Co., 
Inc., the Estate of Thurston V. Williams, Forrest Hussey, Roger T. 
Williams, Alan L. Foster, and other former shareholders of the OK Tool 
Co. will pay a collective total of approximately $3 million to the 
United States and the State of New Hampshire (``the State'') for past 
and future CERCLA response actions that have been and will be 
undertaken by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (``EPA'') and 
the State for the Savage Site. This settlement is based primarily on 
the settling defendants' ability to pay.
    The United States and the State have incurred and expect to incur 
in the future a total of approximately $10 million for response actions 
at the Savage Well site, primarily for future remedial action involving 
extraction and treatment of contaminated groundwater at the ``OK Tool 
Source Area'' of the Savage Well site. The remedial action for the 
remainder of the site is being performed by other potentially 
responsible parties pursuant to a consent decree entered in United 
States and State of New Hampshire v. Conductron Corp. et al. (No. 94-
174, D.N.H., June 27, 1994).
    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 Environment 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. OK Tool Co., 
Inc., et al. D.J. Ref. 90-11-3-970A.
    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, N.W., 
4th Floor, Washington, D.C. 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 $23.50 (25 cents per page reproduction cost) for the Consent Decree 
and Appendices, made payable to Consent Decree Library.
Bruce S. Gelber,
Acting Chief, Environment and Natural Resources Division.
[FR Doc. 94-26295 Filed 10-21-94; 8:45 am]
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