[Federal Register Volume 62, Number 41 (Monday, March 3, 1997)]
[Notices]
[Pages 9450-9451]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 97-5154]


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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 a proposed consent decree embodying a 
partial settlement in United States v. Allied-Signal, Inc., Civil 
Action No. 93-6490 MRP, was lodged on February 18, 1997, with the 
United States District Court for the Central District of California. 
The decree resolves the liability of the settling defendants for 
reimbursement of response costs incurred pursuant to the Comprehensive 
Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (``CERCLA''), 
42 U.S.C. Sec. 9601 et seq., by the United States Environmental 
Protection Agency (``EPA'') at the North Hollywood Operable Unit 
(``NHOU'') of the San Fernando Valley Basin Superfund Site (``SFVB''), 
in the greater Los Angeles area. The settling defendants and third-
party defendants, AlliedSignal, Inc.; Hawker Pacific, Inc.; Los Angeles 
By-Products Company, Inc.; California Car Hikers Service; Gordon N. and 
Peggy M. Wagner; Joseph W. Basinger; Parker-Hannifin Corporation; 
Inchcape, Inc.; Crown Disposal Company, Inc.; Western Waste Industries, 
Inc.; Browning-Ferris Industries, Inc.; E.I. DuPont De Nemours, Inc.; 
HR Textron, Inc.; AVX Filters Corporation; Price Pfister, Inc.; Nupla 
Corporation; Herman and Isabel Benjamin; and the Benjamin Family Trust, 
have agreed to pay a total of $4,812,500 to the United States to 
resolve their liability for past and future NHOU response costs and 
past SFVB Basin-wide costs through April 30, 1992.
    The consent decree includes a covenant not to sue under Sections 
106 and 107 of CERCLA, 42 U.S.C. Secs. 9606, 9607, and under Section 
7003 of the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (``RCRA''), 42 
U.S.C. Sec. 6973.
    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

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Natural Resources Division, Department of Justice, Washington, D.C. 
20530, and should refer to United States v. Allied-Signal, Inc., DOJ 
Ref. #90-11-3-1149. Commenters may request a public hearing in the 
affected area, pursuant to Section 7003(d) of RCRA, 42 U.S.C. 
Sec. 6973(d).
    The proposed consent decree may be examined at the office of the 
United States Attorney, Central District of California, Federal 
Building, Room 7516, 300 North Los Angeles Street, Los Angeles, 
California 90012; the Region IX Office of the Environmental Protection 
Agency, 75 Hawthorne Street, San Francisco, California 94105; 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 $23.00 (25 cents per page reproduction costs), 
payable to the Consent Decree Library.
Joel Gross
Chief, Environmental Enforcement Section, Environment and Natural 
Resources Division.
[FR Doc. 97-5154 Filed 2-28-97; 8:45 am]
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