[Federal Register Volume 64, Number 234 (Tuesday, December 7, 1999)]
[Notices]
[Pages 68374-68375]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 99-31623]


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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, 38 Fed. 
Reg. 19029, and 42 U.S.C. Sec. 9622(d), notice is hereby given that on 
November 23, 1999, a proposed consent decree in United States v. Green 
Mountain Power Corporation, et al., Civil Action No.

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1:99-CV-366, was lodged with the United States District Court for the 
District of Vermont. The proposed consent decree resolves certain 
claims against Green Mountain Power Corporation, New England Electric 
System, Vermont Gas Systems, Inc., UGI Utilities, Inc., Southern Union 
Company, General Electric Company, Lockheed Martin Corporation, General 
Dynamics Armament Systems, Inc., Maytag Corporation, Citizens 
Properties, Inc., Davis Development, City of Burlington, Maltex 
Partnership, 453 Pine Street Associates, BCV Corporation, UDV North 
America, Inc., Specialty Filaments, Inc., Martin Marietta Corporation, 
Vermont Agency of Transportation, the Uhlmann Company, and Vermont 
Railway, Inc. under Sections 106 and 107 of the Comprehensive 
Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (``CERCLA''), 
42 U.S.C. 9606 and 9607, regarding the release and/or threat of release 
of hazardous substances at and from the Pine Street Canal Site in 
Burlington, Vermont. The settlers are current or former owners and/or 
operators of the Site or adjacent property. The settlement also 
resolves claims against the General Services Administration and the 
Department of Commerce based on the ownership and operation by 
predecessor agencies of a portion of the Site.
    Pursuant to the proposed settlement, the settlers shall: reimburse 
the United States $5.25 million plus interest from April 30, 1998 for 
past Environmental Protection Agency and Department of Justice costs; 
pay 100% of oversight costs for the remedy; pay 100% of other future 
response costs; implement the remedial action for the Site; implement a 
natural resource restoration project; reimburse the United States 
$24,150 for past trustee response costs; and pay $25,000 for trustee 
oversight costs related to the project. The United States will pay 
$500,000 toward the costs incurred and to be incurred at the Site.
    The Department of Justice will receive for a period of sixty (60) 
days from the date of this publication comments relating to the 
proposed consent decree. Comments should be addressed to the Assistant 
Attorney General of the Environment and Natural Resources Division, 
Department of Justice, Washington, DC 20530, and should refer to United 
States v. Green Mountain Power Corporation, Civil Action No. D.J. Ref. 
90-11-3-409A.
    The proposed consent decree may be examined at either of the 
following locations: (1) the Office of the United States Attorney, 
District of Vermont, 11 Elmwood Avenue, Burlington, Vermont; or (2) 
Region I, Office of the Environmental Protection Agency, One Congress 
Street, Boston, Massachusetts, 02203. A copy of the consent decree can 
be obtained by mail (without attachments) from the Department of 
Justice Consent Decree Library, PO Box 7611, Washington, DC 20044. In 
requesting a copy of the consent decree (without attachments), please 
enclose a check in the amount of $19.50 (25 cents per page reproduction 
cost) payable to the Consent Decree Library.
Joel Gross,
Chief, Environmental Enforcement Section Environment and Natural 
Resources Division.
[FR Doc. 99-31623 Filed 12-6-99; 8:45 am]
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