[Federal Register Volume 62, Number 96 (Monday, May 19, 1997)]
[Notices]
[Pages 27274-27275]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 97-12966]


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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 in United 
States v. American National Can Company, et al., No. CIV F-97-5402-REC-
SMS (E.D. Cal), was lodged on April 23, 1997, with the United States 
District Court for the Eastern District of California. The consent 
decree resolves claims under Sections 106 and 107 of the Comprehensive 
Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980, 42 
U.S.C. 9606 and 9607, as amended, brought against defendants American 
National Can Company, Crown Beverage Packaging, Inc., NL Industries, 
Inc., and Tri-Valley Growers for injunctive relief and response costs 
incurred and to be incurred by the United States Environmental 
Protection Agency in connection with responding to the release and 
threatened release of hazardous substances at the Industrial

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Waste Processing Site (``Site'') in Pinedale, California.
    The proposed consent decree provides that to resolve their 
liability to the United States for injunctive relief and response costs 
as described above, the aforementioned entities will collectively (1) 
pay $50,000 in past response costs incurred by the United States in 
connection with the Site; (2) perform a removal action at an estimated 
cost of $655,969 to address contaminated soils at the Site; and (3) pay 
any future oversight costs incurred by the United States in connection 
with the removal action (to the extent that such costs exceed 
$163,924). The proposed consent decree includes a covenant not to sue 
by the United States under Sections 106 and 107 of the Comprehensive 
Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980, 42 
U.S.C. 9606 and 9607.
    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. American National Can Company, et al., No. CIV F-5402-
REC-SMS (E.D. Cal), DOJ Ref. #90-11-3-797A.
    The proposed consent decree may be examined at the office of the 
United States Attorney, Eastern District of California, 1130 O Street, 
Room 3654, Fresno, CA 93721; the Region IX Office of the Environmental 
Protection Agency, 75 Hawthorne Street, San Francisco, CA 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 copies please refer to the referenced case and 
enclose a check in the amount of $18.00 (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. 97-12966 Filed 5-16-97; 8:45 am]
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