[Federal Register Volume 61, Number 235 (Thursday, December 5, 1996)]
[Notices]
[Page 64532]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 96-30987]


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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 November 21, 1996, a proposed 
Consent Decree in United States v. Sheller Globe Corporation et al., 
Civil No. 1:96-CV-927, was lodged with the United States District Court 
for the Western District of Michigan. This consent Decree resolves 
specified claims against sixty-three (63) parties (``Settling 
Defendant'') under the Comprehensive Environmental Response, 
Compensation and Liability Act of 1980, as amended, 42 U.S.C. 9601 et 
seq. (``CERCLA'') relating to the Auto Ion Superfund Site (``Site'') in 
Kalamazoo.
    The Consent Decree requires the sixty-three Settling Defendants to 
design and implement the Second Operable Unit remedy selected by the 
United States Environmental Protection Agency (``U.S. EPA''), which 
addresses groundwater contamination at the Site. The estimated present 
value of the groundwater remedy is approximately $565,000. The Consent 
Decree also requires the Settling Defendants to reimburse the Superfund 
in the amount of $360,000, plus prejudgment interest, for the United 
States' past costs, and to pay certain future response costs, including 
U.S. EPA's future oversight costs, to be incurred by the United States 
relating to 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 Consent 
Decree. Comments should be addressed to the Assistant Attorney General 
of the Environment and Natural Resources Division, Department of 
Justice, Washington, D.C. 20530, and should refer in United States v. 
Sheller Globe Corporation et al., D.J. Ref. 90-11-2-1107.
    The Consent Decree may be examined at the Office of the United 
States Attorney, Western District of Michigan, Gerald R. Ford Federal 
Building and Courthouse, 110 Michigan Street, N.W., Room 399, Grand 
Rapids, Michigan 49503, at the Region V Office of the Environmental 
Protection Agency, 200 West Adams Street, Chicago, Illinois, 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. 20005. In requesting a 
copy, please enclose a check in the amount of $26.75 (25 cents per page 
reproduction cost) payable to the Consent Decree Library.
Bruce S. Gelber,
Deputy Chief, Environmental Enforcement Section, Environment and 
Natural Resources Division.
[FR Doc. 96-30987 Filed 12-4-96; 8:45 am]
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