[Federal Register Volume 62, Number 39 (Thursday, February 27, 1997)]
[Notices]
[Pages 8991-8992]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 97-4874]


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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

Notice of Lodging of Consent Decree Pursuant to the Comprehensive 
Environmental Response Compensation and Liability Act (``CERCLA'')

    In accordance with Departmental policy, 28 C.F.R. 50.7, 38 FR 
19029, and 42 U.S.C. 9622(d) notice is hereby given that a proposed 
consent decree in United States v. Niagara Mohawk Power Corp., Civil 
Action No. 97-CV-136, was lodged on January 31, 1997 with the United 
States District Court for the Northern District of New York. The 
Consent Decree addresses the hazardous waste contamination at the 
Niagara Mohawk Power Corporation Superfund Site (the ``Site'') in the 
City of Saratoga Springs, Saratoga County, New York. The Consent Decree 
requires Niagara Mohawk Power Corporation (`'NMPC'') to implement the 
remedial action selected by the Environmental Protection Agency in the 
Record of Decision dated September, 1995. Additionally, NMPC is 
required to reimburse the United States $874,080.04, in U.S. EPA past 
costs at the Site and pay EPA's oversight costs at 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 
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. Niagara Mohawk Power Corp., DOJ Ref. #90-11-3-1570.
    The proposed consent decree may be examined at the office of the 
United States Attorney, 231 James T. Foley Courthouse, 445 Broadway, 
Albany, New York 12207; Region II; Office of the Environmental 
Protection Agency, 290 Broadway, New York, New York 10007; 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,

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N.W., 4th Floor, Washington, D.C. 20005. In requesting a copy, please 
enclose a check in the amount of $26.25 for the Consent Decree and 
$41.50 for the attachments to the Consent Decree (25 cents per page 
reproduction costs), payable to the Consent Decree Library.

Bruce Gelber,
Deputy Section Chief, Environmental Enforcement Section, Environment 
and Natural Resources Division.
[FR Doc. 97-4874 Filed 2-26-97; 8:45 am]
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