[Federal Register Volume 64, Number 227 (Friday, November 26, 1999)]
[Notices]
[Page 66491]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 99-30790]


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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE


Notice of Lodging of Consent Decree Under the Comprehensive 
Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act

    On November 15, 1999, the United States lodged a proposed consent 
decree in the case of United States v. East Charleston and Fogg, and 
Harold Gerecht, CV-S-97-000760-DWH(RJJ), in the United States District 
Court for the District of Nevada. The consent decree settles and action 
brought by the United States pursuant to Sections 104 and 107 of the 
Comprenhensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act, 
42 U.S.C. 9604, 9607, to recover the costs incurred in conducting a 
1993 removal action at an approximate 10 arce parcel located at 6247 
East Charleston Boulevard in Las Vegas, Nevada (``site'').
    The consent decree requires the defendants to sell the site and to 
use the proceeds from that sale to reimburse EPA for up to $537,768 of 
EPA's response costs, or 52.5 percent of the site costs. The consent 
decree also requires the United States on behalf of the United States 
Air Force to pay $486.552 toward the response costs, or 47.5 percent of 
the site costs. Removal costs, including interest, total $1,024,320.
    The Department of Justice will accept comments relating to this 
consent decree for a period of thirty (30) days from the date of this 
publications. See 28 CFR 50.7. Address your comments to the Assistant 
Attorney General for the Environmental and Natural Resources Division, 
Department of Justice, Washington, DC 20530, and send a copy of the 
Environmental Enforcement Section, U.S. Department of Justice, 301 
Howard Street, Suite 870, San Francisco, CA 94105. Your comments should 
refer to United States v. East Charleston and Fogg, and Harold Gerecht, 
CV-S-97-000760-DWH(RJJ), and DOJ No. 90-11-3-1742.
    A copy of the consent decree may be obtained by mail from the 
Department of Justice Consent Decree Library, P.O. Box 7611, 
Washington, DC 20044. Your request for a copy of the consent decree in 
United States v. East Charleston and Fogg, and Harold Gerecht, CV-S-97-
000760-DWH(RJJ), and DOJ No. 90-11-3-1742, and must include a check for 
$8.75 (25 cents per page reproduction cost) payable to the ``Consent 
Decree Library.'' You may also examine the proposed consent decree in 
person, or request a copy by mail from the United States Environmental 
Protection Agency, 75 Hawthorne Street, San Francisco, California 
94105, or at the U.S. Attorney's Office, 700 E. Bridger Avenue, Las 
Vegas, Nevada 89101.
Walker Smith,
Deputy Chief, Environmental Enforcement Section, Environment and 
Natural Resources Division.
[FR Doc. 99-30790 Filed 11-24-99; 8:45 am]
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