[Federal Register Volume 62, Number 217 (Monday, November 10, 1997)]
[Notices]
[Pages 60529-60530]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 97-29532]


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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE


Notice of Lodging of Consent Decree Pursuant to the Comprehensive 
Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act

    In accordance with Departmental policy, 28 CFR 50.7, notice is 
hereby given that a proposed consent decree in United States v. 
Keystone Sanitation Company, et al., Civil Action No. 1:CV:-93-1482 
(M.D. Pa.) was lodged on October 22, 1997, with the United States Court 
for the Middle District of Pennsylvania.
    The consent decree resolves the liability of approximately 376 
third and fourth party defendants at the Keystone Sanitation Superfund 
Site, located near Hanover, Pennsylvania. The decree provides that the 
Settling Defendants listed in Appendix B to the consent decree and 
several federal agencies will pay a total of $4.25 million to the 
United States as follows: $80,000 of that sum will be paid to the 
Department of the Interior to resolve claims for natural resource 
damages; $1.25 million will be paid to the Superfund to reimburse the 
United States for past response costs incurred at the Site; and the 
balance of $2,920,000 will be paid into a Special Account to be used 
either for future remedial work at the Site or, if not so used, to be 
paid back into the Superfund.
    The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania is also a party to the decree. It 
is a third party to the litigation. It grants the settling parties a 
covenant not to sue under section 107(a) of CERCLA, 42 U.S.C. 
Sec. 9607(a), its state law counterpart, and other state statutes. In 
exchange, the Settling Defendants and Settling Federal Agencies agree 
to pay to the United States the share allocated to the state agencies 
of $66,775.
    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, DC 20530, and should refer to United 
States v. Keystone Sanitation Company, et al., DOJ Ref. #90-11-2-656A.
    The proposed consent decree may be examined at the office of the 
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States Attorney, Middle District of Pennsylvania, 228 Walnut Street, 
Harrisburg, PA 17108; 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 the amount 
of $50.00, payable to the Consent Decree Library.
Bruce S. Gelber,
Deputy Chief, Environmental Enforcement Section, Environment and 
Natural Resources Division.
[FR Doc. 97-29532 Filed 11-7-97; 8:45 am]
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