[Federal Register Volume 63, Number 44 (Friday, March 6, 1998)]
[Notices]
[Pages 11308-11309]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 98-5792]


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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE


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

    Notice is hereby given that a proposed consent decree in United 
States v. Cello-Foil Prods., Inc., et al., Civil Action No. 1:92 CV 713 
(consolidated with Kelley v. Cello-Foil Prods., Inc., et al., Civil 
Action No. 4:92 CV 139), was lodged on February 27, 1998, with the 
United States District Court for the Western District of Michigan. The 
consent decree settles an action brought under Section 107 of the 
Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act, 
42 U.S.C. 9601, et seq., (``CERCLA'') for the recovery of costs 
incurred by the United States and the State of Michigan in responding 
to a release or threat of release of hazardous substances at the 
Raymond Road Operable Unit of the Verona Well Field Superfund Site in 
Battle Creek, Michigan (the ``Site''). Under the terms

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of the proposed decree, the settling defendants will pay $600,000 to 
the United States and $300,000 to the State of Michigan in settlement 
of response costs incurred 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 v. Cello-Foil Prods., Inc., et al., DOJ Ref. # 90-11-3-
626A.
    The proposed consent decree may be examined at the office of the 
United States Attorney for the Western District of Michigan, 330 Ionia 
Avenue, N.W., 5th Floor, Grand Rapids, Michigan 49503; the Region 5 
Office of the Environmental Protection Agency, 77 West Jackson 
Boulevard, Chicago, IL 60604; 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 $24.75 (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. 98-5792 Filed 3-5-98; 8:45 am]
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