[Federal Register Volume 61, Number 72 (Friday, April 12, 1996)]
[Notices]
[Pages 16265-16266]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 96-9120]



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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

Notice of Lodging of Consent Decree Pursuant to the Resource 
Conservation and Recovery Liability Act
    In accordance with Departmental policy, 28 CFR 50.7, notice is 
hereby given that a proposed consent decree amendment in United States 
v. Eljer Industries, Inc. and Eljer Manufacturing, Inc., Civil Action 
No. C87-2693Y, was lodged on March 14, 1996 with the United States 
District Court for the Southern District of Ohio. The proposed consent 
decree amendment will resolve claims against Eljer for stipulated 
penalties accruing under the terms of a 1990 consent decree that 
settled claims for violations of the Resource Conservation and Recovery 
Act, 42 U.S.C. 6901 et seq., at Eljer's Salem Ohio plant. Under the 
proposed Consent Decree amendment, Eljer agrees to pay $175,000 in 
stipulated penalties, and provisions in the 1990 decree relating to 
liability coverage for closure work at the Salem plant are modified to 
provide a ``best efforts'' commitment to obtain liability coverage.

    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, DC 20530, and should refer to United 
States v. Eljer Industries, Inc. and Eljer Manufacturing, Inc., Civil 
Action No. C87-2693Y, and the Department of Justice Reference No. 90-7-
1-431A.

    The proposed consent decree may be examined at the Office of the 
United States Attorney, Northern District of Ohio, 208 Federal 
Building, 2 South Main Street, Akron, Ohio 44308; the Region 5 Office 
of the Environmental Protection Agency, 77 West Jackson Boulevard, 
Chicago, Illinois 60604-3590; and at the Consent Decree Library, 1120 G 
Street, NW., 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, 1120 G Street, NW., 4th Floor, Washington, 
DC 20005. In requesting a copy, please refer to the referenced case and 
enclose

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a check in the amount of $2.00 (25 cents per page reproduction costs), 
payable to the Consent Decree Library.
Joel M. Gross,
Chief, Environmental Enforcement Section, Environment and Natural 
Resources division.
[FR Doc. 96-9120 Filed 4-11-96; 8:45 am]
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