[Federal Register Volume 62, Number 245 (Monday, December 22, 1997)]
[Notices]
[Pages 66882-66883]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 97-33345]


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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE


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

    In accordance with Departmental policy, 28 CFR Sec. 50.7, 38 FR 
19029, and 42 U.S.C. 9622(d), notice is hereby given that a proposed 
consent decree in United States v. Haviland Properties, Steven Roberts, 
Myung Chung, Byung Chung, Raymond Sison, and Ines Sison, 97 Civ 8164 
(BSJ) (S.D.N.Y), was lodged on November 4, 1997, with the United States 
District Court for the Southern District of New York. The consent 
decree provides for payment by the settling defendants toward 
reimbursement of response costs incurred in connection with the 
remediation of hazardous waste contamination at the Haviland Complex 
Superfund Site (``the Site''), which is located in the Town of Hyde 
Park, Dutchess County, New York. The Consent Decree requires the 
defendants to pay to total of $450,000 of the United States and $50,000 
to the State of New York over a three year period. In addition, the 
defendants have agreed to pay to the United States and the State 15% of 
the net proceeds upon any sale of the property in exchange for the 
transfer to the purchaser of the property of all rights, benefits and 
obligations under the consent decree. In the alternative, if the 
property is not sold within five years of the date of the entry of the 
consent decree, the United States, at its option, may elect to require 
the Defendants to pay the sum $30,000 in lieu of 15% of the net 
proceeds.
    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. Haviland Properties, Steven Roberts, Myung Chung, 
Byung Chung, Raymond Sison, and Ines Sison, DOJ Ref. No. 90-11-2-309.
    The proposed consent decree may be examined at the office of the 
United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, 100 
Church Street, New York, New York 10007 (contact Assistant United 
States Attorney Kathy S. Marks); the Region II Office of the 
Environmental Protection Agency, 290 Broadway, New York, New York 
10007-1866 (contact Assistant Regional

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Counsel Michael Mintzer); 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 $12.25 (25 cents 
per page reproduction costs) for the consent decree, payable to the 
Consent Decree Library.
Joel M. Gross,
Chief, Environmental Enforcement Section, Environment and Natural 
Resources Division.
[FR Doc. 97-33345 Filed 12-19-97; 8:45 am]
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