[Federal Register Volume 63, Number 181 (Friday, September 18, 1998)]
[Notices]
[Pages 49925-49926]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 98-24990]


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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 50.7, notice is 
hereby given that a proposed Consent Decree in United States versus 
Safety Light Corp., et al., Case No. 97-CV-5206, was lodged on August 
14, 1998, in the United States District Court for the District of New 
Jersey.
    The Consent Decree resolves the United States' claim, pursuant to 
Section 107 of the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, 
and Liability Act, 42 U.S.C. 9607, for response costs incurred and to 
be incurred by EPA at the U.S. Radium Corp. Superfund Site (``the 
Site'') in Essex County, New Jersey. Portions of the Site lie in the 
municipalities of Orange, East Orange, West Orange and South Orange, 
New Jersey.
    Under the Consent Decree, the United States will receive $1,556,065 
in reimbursement of response costs. In addition, upon sale of the 
property owned by Safety Light Corp. at 4150-A Old Berwick Road in 
Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania, the United States will receive forty-five 
percent of the sale price of that property.
    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 versus Safety Light Corp., et al., DOJ Ref. #90-11-3-
1066.
    The proposed Consent Decree may be examined at the Office of the 
United States Attorney in Newark, New Jersey; the Region II Office of 
the Environmental Protection Agency, 290 Broadway, New York, New York; 
and at the Consent Decree Library, 1120 G Street, N.W., 3rd Floor, 
Washington,

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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 please refer to the referenced case and enclose a 
check made payable to the Consent Decree Library in the amount of $6.00 
(25 cents per page reproduction costs).
Bruce S. Gelber,
Deputy Section Chief, Environmental Enforcement Section, Environment 
and Natural Resources Division, U.S. Department of Justice.
[FR Doc. 98-24990 Filed 9-17-98; 8:45 am]
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