[Federal Register Volume 64, Number 154 (Wednesday, August 11, 1999)]
[Notices]
[Page 43717]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 99-20747]


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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 U.S.C. 50.7, and in 
accordance with Section 122(d)(2) of CERCLA, 42 U.S.C. 9622(d)(2), 
notice is hereby given that a proposed Consent Decree in United States 
v. Conklin Company, Inc., et al. Civil Action No. 97-1372, was Lodged 
on July, 30, 1999, with the United States District Court for the 
Eastern District of Louisiana.
    The Consent Decree settles an action brought under Section 107 of 
the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability 
Act (``CERCLA''), 42 U.S.C. Sec. 9607. The Consent Decree provides that 
Conklin will pay the United States $262,500 dollars for response costs 
incurred in conducting a removal action at the Malter International 
Site located in the City of Gretna, Jefferson Parish, Louisiana.
    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. Conklin Company, Inc., et al. DOJ Ref. #90-11-2-1247.
    The proposed Consent Decree may be examined at the office of the 
United States Attorney, Eastern District of Louisiana, Hale Boggs 
Federal Building, 501 Magazine Street, Second Floor, New Orleans, 
Louisiana 70130; the Region VI Office of the Environmental Protection 
Agency, 1445 Ross Avenue, Dallas, Texas; 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., 
3rd Floor, Washington, D.C. 20005. In requesting a copy please refer to 
the referenced case and enclose a check in the amount of $6.00 (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. 99-20747 Filed 8-10-99 8:45 am]
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