[Federal Register Volume 64, Number 121 (Thursday, June 24, 1999)]
[Notices]
[Pages 33907-33908]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 99-16118]


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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE


Notice of Lodging of Consent Decree Pursuant To the Comprehensive 
Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act and Resource 
Conservation and Recovery Act

    In accordance with Departmental policy, 28 CFR 50.7, notice is 
hereby given that on June 11, 1999 a proposed Consent Decree in United 
States v. Abitibi Price Corporation, et al., Civil Action No. 
1:99CV428, was lodged with the United States District Court for the 
Western District of Michigan.
    The Consent Decree resolves certain claims of the United States 
against 43 companies under Sections 106 and 107(a) of CERCLA, 42 U.S.C. 
Secs. 9606 and 9607(a) and Section 7003 of the Resource Conservation 
and Recovery Act (``RCRA''), 42 U.S.C. Sec. 6973 at the former Organic 
Chemical, Inc. facility (``the Site'') in Grandville, Kent County, 
Michigan. The defendants have been

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named as companies which arranged for disposal or treatment of 
hazardous substances at the Site.
    The settlement requires the settling defendants to make payment of 
$3,300,000 for past response costs incurred by the U.S. Environmental 
Protection Agency in connection with the Site and for certain of the 
settling defendants to perform the groundwater component of EPA's 
selected second phase or Operable Unit for the Site's remediation.
    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, 
United States Department of Justice, P.O. Box 7611, Ben Franklin 
Station, Washington, D.C. 20044-7611, and should refer to United States 
v. Abitibi Price Corporation, et al., Civil Action No. 1:99CV428, and 
the Department of Justice Reference No. 90-11-3-990/1. Commenters may 
request an opportunity for a public hearing in the affected area, in 
accordance with Section 7003(d) of RCRA, 42 U.S.C. Sec. 6973(d), by 
contacting Jerome Kujawa (EPA Region 5) at (312) 886-6731. The proposed 
Consent Decree may be examined at the Office of the United States 
Attorney for the Western District of Michigan, 330 Ionia Avenue, NW, 
Suite 501, Grand Rapids, Michigan 49503; the Region 5 Office of the 
United States Environmental Protection Agency, 77 West Jackson 
Boulevard, Chicago, Illinois 60604-3590; and at the Consent Decree 
Library, 1120 G Street, N.W., 3rd Floor, Washington, D.C. 20005, 
telephone no. (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., 3rd Floor, Washington, D.C. 20005. In requesting a 
copy, please refer to DJ #90-11-3-990/1, and enclose a check in the 
amount of $57.25 (25 cents per page for reproduction costs), payable to 
the Consent Decree Library.
Joel M. Gross,
Chief, Environmental Enforcement Section, Environment and Natural 
Resources Division.
[FR Doc. 99-16118 Filed 6-23-99; 8:45 am]
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