[Federal Register Volume 62, Number 224 (Thursday, November 20, 1997)]
[Notices]
[Page 62074]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 97-30541]


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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE


Notice of Lodging of Settlement Agreement Pursuant to the 
Comprehensive Environmental Response Compensation, and Liability Act

    In accordance with Departmental policy, 28 C.F.R. Sec. 50.7, notice 
is hereby given that a proposed Settlement Agreement in In re: The 
Railway Reorganization Estate, Inc. F/K/A The Delaware and Hudson 
Railway Co., Case No. 88-342, was lodged on October 27, 1997 in the 
United States Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware.
    The Settlement Agreement resolves the United States' claim, 
pursuant to Section 107 of the Comprehensive Environmental Response, 
Compensation, and Liability Act, 42 U.S.C. Sec. 9607, for response 
costs incurred and to be incurred by EPA at the Quanta Resources 
Syracuse Superfund Site (``the Site'') in Syracuse, New York. Under the 
Settlement Agreement, which remains subject to Bankruptcy Court 
approval, the United States will receive $15,000 in reimbursement of 
response costs incurred and to be incurred by EPA 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 Settlement Agreement. 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 In re: The Railway Reorganization Estate, Inc., F/K/A The 
Delaware and Hudson Railway Co., DOJ Ref. #90-11-3-848E.
    The proposed Settlement Agreement may be examined at the Office of 
the United States Attorney in Wilmington, Delaware, the Region II 
Office of the Environmental Protection Agency, 290 Broadway, New York, 
New York; 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. In requesting a copy please refer to the referenced 
case and enclose a check made payable to the Consent Decree Library in 
the amount of $2.25 (25 cents per page reproduction costs).
Bruce S. Gelber,
Deputy Section Chief, Environmental Enforcement Section, Environmental 
and Natural Resources Division, U.S. Department of Justice.
[FR Doc. 97-30541 Filed 11-19-97; 8:45 am]
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