[Federal Register Volume 62, Number 39 (Thursday, February 27, 1997)]
[Notices]
[Page 8991]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 97-4834]


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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 Sec. 50.7, and 42 
U.S.C. 9622, notice is hereby given that on February 18, 1997, a 
proposed Consent Decree in United States v. Landfill & Resource 
Recovery, Inc., Civil No. 97-078ML, was lodged with the United States 
District Court for the District of Rhode Island. The proposed Consent 
Decree concerns the response to the release and threatened release of 
hazardous substances at the Landfill & Resource Recovery, Inc. Site 
located in North Smithfield, Rhode Island, pursuant to the 
Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act, 
as amended. The settlers are owners or operators of the Site as well as 
generators and transporters of hazardous substances disposed of at the 
Site.
    Under the terms of the Consent Decree, Avnet, Inc., Boston Edison 
Company, CCL Custom Manufacturing, Inc., General Dynamics Corporation, 
Olin Corporation, Polaroid Corporation, Stanley Bostich, Inc., The 
Dexter Corporation, United Dominion Industries, Inc., Waste Management, 
Inc., Landfill & Resource Recovery, Inc., Truk-Away of RI, Inc., 
Charles Wilson and David Wilson will complete the remedial action for 
the Site. In addition, these settlers agree to pay the United States 
$675,000 and the State of Rhode Island $200,000 for past costs incurred 
at the Site, to pay oversight costs to be incurred by the United 
States, to pay $200,000 to the Department of Interior (``DOI'') for 
damages to natural resources under the joint trusteeship of DOI and the 
State, to pay $400,000 in satisfaction of the United States' claims 
under 42 U.S.C. 9606(b)(1), for violations of a unilateral 
administrative order, and to implement a supplemental environmental 
project in the amount of $525,000 to purchase wetlands or related 
property or conservation easements within the Blackstone River Valley 
National Heritage Corridor. The two other settlers, J. Scott Cannon and 
J. Robert Cannon, have paid $60,000 to the United States to satisfy the 
governments' claims for past and future response costs. The Cannons' 
payment is based on the financial condition of the parties.
    The Department of Justice will receive for a period of thirty 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, Ben Franklin Station, Washington, DC 20044, and should 
refer to United States v. Landfill & Resource Recovery, Inc., D.J. Ref. 
90-11-2-449B.
    The proposed Consent Decree may be examined at the Region 1 Office 
of the Environmental Protection Agency, One Congress Street, Boston, 
Massachusetts and at the Environmental Enforcement Section Document 
Center, 1120 G Street, NW., 4th Floor, Washington, DC 200052 (20) 624-
0892. A copy of the proposed Consent Decree may be obtained in person 
or by mail from the Document Center. In requesting a copy, please refer 
to the referenced case and enclose a check in the amount of $35.75 (25 
cents per page reproduction cost, excluding all appendices) or $48.75 
(25 cents per page reproduction cost, excluding appendices A, J and K) 
made payable to Consent Decree Library.
Bruce S. Gelber,
Deputy Section Chief, Environmental Enforcement Section.
[FR Doc. 97-4834 Filed 2-26-97; 8:45 am]
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