[Federal Register Volume 61, Number 51 (Thursday, March 14, 1996)]
[Notices]
[Page 10596]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 96-6093]



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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE


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

    Pursuant to Departmental policy, 28 C.F.R. Sec. 50.7, and 42 U.S.C. 
9622(d)(2), notice is hereby given that a proposed consent decree in 
United States v.  Allied Signal, Inc. et al., Civil Action No. 96 Civ. 
1513, was lodged on March 1, 1995 with the United States District Court 
for the Southern District of New York. The proposed consent decree 
resolves the liability of 28 defendants to the United States based upon 
these defendants' involvement at the Cortese Landfill Superfund Site 
(``Site'') in the Town of Tusten, New York pursuant to the 
comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act, 
as amended.
    Under the terms of the proposed consent decree, the 28 settling 
defendants agree to remediate the Site at an estimated cost of $10.4 
million and to pay the United States all future costs which the 
Environmental Protection Agency (``EPA'') incurs in overseeing the 
implementation of the remedy by the settling defendants. In addition, 
the settling defendants agree to reimburse the Department of Interior 
(``DOI'') the amount of $134,068, which represents the amount DOI has 
incurred at the Site and to pay DOI the additional amount of $84,850 
for natural resource damages for resources under the trusteeship of 
DOI.
    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. Allied Signal, Inc. et al., D.J. reference #90-11-2-
1078.
    The proposed consent decree may be examined at the Office of the 
United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, 1200 
Church Street, New York, New York; the Region II Office of the 
Environmental Protection Agency, 290 Broadway Avenue, New York, New 
York; and at the Environmental Enforcement Section 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 also be obtained in 
person or by mail from the Consent Decree Library. In requesting a 
copy, please enclose a check in the amount of $27.00 (25 cents per page 
reproduction costs), payable to the Consent Decree Library.
Joel Gross,
Chief, Environmental Enforcement Section, Environment and Natural 
Resources Division.
[FR Doc. 96-6093 Filed 3-13-96; 8:45 am]
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