[Federal Register Volume 60, Number 71 (Thursday, April 13, 1995)]
[Notices]
[Pages 18852-18853]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 95-9106]



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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, and 42 U.S.C. 
9622(d)(2), notice is hereby given that a proposed Consent Decree in 
United States of America v. Bayard Mining Corp., Mining Remedial 
Recovery Corp., and VIACOM International Inc., Civil Action No. 95-285-
MVLFG, was lodged on March 21, 1995 with the United States District 
Court for the District of New Mexico. Contemporaneously with the 
lodging of the consent decree, the United States filed a civil action 
under Sections 106 and 107 of the Comprehensive Environmental Response, 
Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980, as amended (``CERCLA''), 42 
U.S.C. 9606 and 9607, for injunctive relief to abate an imminent and 
substantial endangerment to the public health and welfare or the 
environment due to the release or threatened release of hazardous 
substances from a facility, and for recovery of response costs that 
have been and will be incurred by the United States in response to 
releases or threatened releases of hazardous substances from the same 
facility, known as the Cleveland Mill Superfund site, located in Grant 
County, New Mexico. Under the proposed Consent Decree, Settling 
Defendants will conduct or finance 100% of the remedial design and 
remedial action at the Site; pay 100% of past and future costs; and pay 
for damages to natural resources at 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 of the Environment and Natural Resources Division, 
Department of Justice, P.O. Box 7611, Ben Franklin Station, Washington, 
D.C. 20044. Comments should refer to United States of America v. Bayard 
Mining Corp., Mining Remedial Recovery Corp., and VIACOM International 
Inc., DOJ Ref. #90-11-3-1171.
    The proposed consent decree may be examined at the office of the 
United States Attorney, 625 Silver, SW, Suite 

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400 Albuquerque, New Mexico; the Region VI Office of the Environmental 
Protection Agency, 1445 Ross Avenue, Dallas, Texas; and at the Consent 
Decree Library, 1120 G Street, N.W., 4th Floor, Washington, DC 20005, 
(202) 624-0892. A copy of the proposed Consent Decree may be obtained 
in person or by mail from the Consent Decree Library.
    In requesting a copy, please enclose a check in the amount of 
$21.25 (25 cents per page reproduction cost) payable to the ``Consent 
Decree Library.''
Joel M. Gross,
Acting Chief, Environmental Enforcement Section, Environment and 
Natural Resources Division.
[FR Doc. 95-9106 Filed 4-12-95; 8:45 am]
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