[Federal Register Volume 62, Number 114 (Friday, June 13, 1997)]
[Notices]
[Pages 32369-32370]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 97-15498]


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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. Allied Signal, Inc., Civil Action No. TH 97 154 CTF, was 
lodged on May 28, 1997, with the United States District Court for the 
Southern District of Indiana. The United States filed this action 
pursuant to Sections 106 and 107 of the Comprehensive Environmental 
Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (``CERCLA''), 42 U.S.C. 
Secs. 9606 and 9607, to secure the performance of a remedial action and 
to recover past and future response costs incurred at or in connection 
with the Prestolite Battery Site in Vincennes, Indiana. The Consent 
Decree requires defendant Allied Signal to perform the remedial action 
for the site selected by the United States Environmental Protection 
Agency in a December, 1994 Record of Decision; to reimburse the United 
States $950,000 for response costs incurred between March 31, 1993, and 
January 31, 1996; and to reimburse the United States for all future 
response costs incurred in connection with the Prestolite Site. The 
remedial action selected by EPA provides for natural attenuation of the 
contaminants in groundwater beneath the site, institutional controls to 
prevent access to the contamination, and short and long-term monitoring 
of the contamination.
    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 decrees. Comments should be

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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. Allied Signal, Inc., DOJ 
Ref. #90-11-3-539B.
    The proposed consent decree may be examined at the office of the 
United States Attorney, Southern District of Indiana, United States 
Courthouse, 5th Floor, 46 East Ohio Street, Indianapolis, Indiana 
46204-1986; the Region 5 Office of the Environmental Protection Agency, 
77 West Jackson Boulevard, Chicago, Illinois, 60604; 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 
$28.00 (25 cents per page reproduction costs) for each decree and 
associated appendices, payable to the Consent Decree Library.
Joel M. Gross,
Chief, Environmental Enforcement Section, Environmental and Natural 
Resources Division.
[FR Doc. 97-15498 Filed 6-12-97; 8:45 am]
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