[Federal Register Volume 62, Number 93 (Wednesday, May 14, 1997)]
[Notices]
[Page 26555]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 97-12567]


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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE


Notice of Lodging of Consent Decree; Pursuant to Cercla

    In accordance with the Comprehensive Environmental Response 
Compensation and Liability Act (``CERCLA''), notice is hereby given of 
a consent decree amendment lodged on April 22, 1997, in United States 
of America v City of Somersworth, Civ. Act. No. 96-46-SD (D.N.H.). The 
amendment resolves alleged federal liability under section 113 of 
CERCLA, 42 U.S.C. Sec. 9613, for contribution towards response costs 
incurred at the Somersworth Sanitary Landfill Superfund Site in the 
City of Somersworth, New Hampshire. The amendment has been signed by 
the United States, the State of New Hampshire, the General Electric 
Company, and the City of Somersworth.
    The terms of the consent decree include the following: the United 
States, on behalf of the United States Navy, shall pay (a) $166,500 to 
the Hazardous Substance Superfund; (b) $224,713 to General Electric 
Company and the City of Somersworth; and (c) 9.25% of response costs 
incurred by General Electric Company and the City of Somersworth in 
completing the remedial action required by the Consent Decree.
    The Department of Justice will receive written comment on this 
consent decree for a period of thirty (30) days from the date of this 
notice. Comments should be addressed to the Assistant Attorney General, 
Environment and Natural Resources Division, U.S. Department of Justice, 
Attention: Eileen T. McDonough, Environmental Defense Section, P.O. Box 
23986, Washington, D.C. 20026-3986, and should refer to United States v 
City of Somersworth, DJ Reference No. 90-11-3-1256.
    The proposed amendment and the consent decree may be examined at 
the Consent Decree Library, 1120 G Street, N.W., 4th Floor, Washington, 
D.C. 20005. In requesting a copy of the consent decree and the 
amendment, please enclose a check in the amount of $41.75. In addition 
to the Consent Decree Library, the amendment and the consent decree, 
may be viewed at the EPA New England Library, located on the Eleventh 
Floor, One Congress Street, Boston, Massachusetts, and the Office of 
the Clerk of the United States District Court for the District of New 
Hampshire, Room 412, James C. Cleveland Federal Building, 55 Pleasant 
Street, Concord, NH 03301.
Letitia J. Grishaw,
Chief, Environmental Defense Section, Environment and Natural Resources 
Division, United States Department of Justice.
[FR Doc. 97-12567 Filed 5-13-97; 8:45 am]
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