[Federal Register Volume 62, Number 15 (Thursday, January 23, 1997)]
[Notices]
[Pages 3527-3528]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 97-1592]


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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

Notice of Lodging of Settlement Agreement Pursuant to the 
Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act

    In accordance with Departmental policy, notice is hereby given that 
a proposed Consent Decree between the United States and Stratton 
Georgoulis was lodged on January 6, 1997, with the United States 
District Court for the Northern District of Iowa. The Consent Decree 
resolves United States v. TIC Investment Corporation, et al, No. 91-
2065 (N.D. Iowa), a civil action filed by the United States against 
Stratton Georgoulis, TIC Investment Corporation and TIC United 
Corporation under Sections 104(e) and 107 of the Comprehensive 
Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act of 1980, as 
amended (``CERCLA''), 42 U.S.C. 9604(e) & 9607. The United States 
brought this action to recover $576,337.18 in unreimbursed response 
costs at the White Farm Equipment Dump Site (``the Site''), following 
the entry of a Consent Decree with Allied Products Corporation 
(``Allied'') under which Allied voluntarily performed EPA's selected 
remedial action for the Site and reimbursed the United States for its 
costs of overseeing Allied's

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completion of the remedy. The United States also sought a penalty from 
the defendants under Section 104(e) of CERCLA, 42 U.S.C. 9604(e), based 
on the defendants' alleged unreasonable failure to comply with written 
information requests served upon them by EPA.
    Under the Consent Decree, Georgoulis will reimburse the United 
States for $530,000 of its unreimbursed costs at the Site, and pay a 
$100,000 civil penalty to resolve the United States' claims for the 
defendants' alleged violations of Section 104(e) of CERCLA.
    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. TIC Investment Corporation, et al., DOJ Ref. #90-11-2-
665a.
    The proposed Consent Decree may be examined at the office of the 
United States Attorney, Suite 400, Hach Building, 401 First Street, 
S.E., Cedar Rapids, Iowa 52401; the Region 7 Office of the 
Environmental Protection Agency, 726 Minnesota Avenue, Kansas City, 
Kansas 98105; 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 refer to the referenced case 
and enclose a check in the amount of $4.25 (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. 97-1592 Filed 1-22-97; 8:45 am]
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