[Federal Register Volume 63, Number 69 (Friday, April 10, 1998)]
[Notices]
[Page 17889]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 98-9452]


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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 CFR Sec. 50.7, notice is 
hereby given that a proposed Consent Decree in United States v. City of 
Aberdeen, Mississippi; and Board of Supervisors of Monroe County, 
Mississippi, (N.D. Miss.) was lodged with the United States District 
Court for the Northern District of Mississippi on March 26, 1998 
(1:94cv304-S-D). The proposed Consent Decree resolves the United 
States' claims against the City of Aberdeen and the Board of 
Supervisors of Monroe County, Mississippi pursuant to Section 107 of 
the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability 
Act of 1980 (``CERCLA''), as amended. This Decree also settles settling 
defendants' counterclaim against the United States. The settling 
defendants are alleged to be liable under Section 107 of CERCLA for 
costs incurred by the United States Environmental Protection Agency 
during a cleanup of the Prairie Metals Site in Monroe County, 
Mississippi. Under the Consent Decree, the settling defendants agree to 
reimburse the United States in the amount of $675,000, payable in two 
installments.
    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, 
U.S. Department of Justice, P.O. Box 7611, Washington, D.C. 20044; and 
refer to United States v. City of Aberdeen et al., DOJ Ref. # 90-11-2-
1074
    The proposed settlement agreement may be examined at the Office of 
the United States Attorney, Federal Building, Room 265, 911 West 
Jackson Avenue, Oxford, Mississippi, 38665 and at the office of the 
Environmental Protection Agency, Region 4, 61 Forsyth Street, S.W., 
Atlanta, GA 30303; 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 $4.25 (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. 98-9452 Filed 4-9-98; 8:45 am]
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