[Federal Register Volume 62, Number 147 (Thursday, July 31, 1997)]
[Notices]
[Pages 41078-41079]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 97-20208]


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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE


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

    In accordance with Departmental policy, 28 CFR 50.7, and section 
122(d)(2) of CERCLA, 42 U.S.C. 9622(d)(2), notice is hereby given that 
a proposed Consent Decree in United States versus Cosmo Iacavazzi, et 
al., Civil Action No. CV-89-0164(M.D. PA), was lodged on July 8, 1997 
with the United States District Court for the Middle District of 
Pennsylvania. This Consent Decree resolves a cost recovery action 
brought by the United States against Celotex Corporation, pursuant to 
Section 107(a), 42 U.S.C. 9607(a). The settling defendant arranged for 
the disposal of hazardous substances at the Lackawanna Refuse Site 
(``the Site'') located in Old Forge, Pennsylvania. The Consent Decree 
provides that Celotex will pay $300,000 to the Hazardous Substance 
Superfund for response costs incurred by the United States 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 versus Cosmo Iacavazzi, et al., and In re Celotex 
Corporation, DOJ #90-5-1-1-3712.
    The proposed Consent Decree may be examined at the office of the 
United States Attorney, Suite 309, Federal Building, Washington and 
Linden Street, Scranton, PA 18501; the Region III office of the 
Environmental Protection Agency, 841 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, PA 
19107; and at the Consent Decree Library, 1120 G Street, NW., 4th 
Floor, Washington, DC 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, NW., 4th Floor, Washington, DC 20005. In 
requesting a copy please refer to the referenced case and enclose a 
check in

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the amount of $5.25 (25 cents per page reproduction costs), payable to 
the Consent Decree Library.
Joel M. Gross,
Chief, Environmental Enforcement Section, Environment and Natural 
Resources Division.
[FR Doc. 97-20208 Filed 7-30-97; 8:45 am]
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