[Federal Register Volume 63, Number 9 (Wednesday, January 14, 1998)]
[Notices]
[Page 2265]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 98-910]


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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE


Notice of Filing of Settlement Agreement 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 Settlement Agreement in, In re Enviropur West Corporation, 
Chap. 7, Bankr. No. LA-96-23683-SB (USBC C.D. Cal.) was filed on or 
about December 31, 1997 with the United States Bankruptcy Court for the 
Central District of California. This Settlement Agreement resolves a 
claim filed by the United States against Enviropur West Corporation, 
pursuant to Section 107(a), 42 U.S.C. 9607(a). The settling debtor was 
the owner/operator of a facility located in Signal Hill, California 
(the ``Site'') at the time of disposal of hazardous substances. The 
Settlement Agreement provides, among other things, that the Trustee, on 
behalf of the debtor's estate, will pay $30,000 to the Hazardous 
Substance Superfund for response costs incurred by the United States at 
the Site. In addition, the Trustee, on behalf of the debtor's estate, 
will pay 10% of any funds in the debtor's estate, after the Trustee has 
paid certain other specified claims and expenses.
    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 Enviropur West Corporation, DOJ #90-11-3-1656B.
    The proposed Settlement Agreement may be examined at the office of 
the Region IX office of the Environmental Protection Agency, 75 
Hawthorne Street, San Francisco, California 94105; 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 Settlement Agreement 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 $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. 98-910 Filed 1-13-98; 8:45 am]
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