[Federal Register Volume 63, Number 51 (Tuesday, March 17, 1998)]
[Notices]
[Pages 13071-13072]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 98-6840]


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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 C.F.R. 50.7, notice is 
hereby given that a proposed consent decree in United States v. A-1 
Battery, Inc., Civil Action No. 3CV980363, was lodged on March 4, 1998, 
with the United States District Court for the Middle District of 
Pennsylvania. The defendants in the action are alleged to be persons 
who arranged for the disposal or treatment, or arranged with a 
transporter for transport for disposal or treatment, of hazardous 
substances at the Tonolli Corporation Superfund Site, in Nesquehoning 
Borough, Carbon County, Pennsylvania. The proposed consent decree 
requires the defendants to conduct certain cleanup activities at the 
Site under the oversight of the United States Environmental Protection 
Agency. The

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estimated cost of cleaning up the former lead smelter and battery 
recycling facility is $16.6 million.
    The Department of Justice will receive, for a period ending 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 specifically 
refer to United States v. A-1 Battery, Inc., DOJ No. 90-7-2-174B.
    The proposed consent decree may be examined at the Office of the 
United States Attorney for the Middle District of Pennsylvania, Suite 
1162, Federal Building, 228 Walnut Street, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania 
17108; the Region III Office of the Environmental Protection Agency, 
841 Chestnut Building, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19107; 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 of the proposed consent decree, please enclose 
a check in the amount of $83.00 (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. 98-6840 Filed 3-16-98; 8:45 am]
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