[Federal Register Volume 65, Number 42 (Thursday, March 2, 2000)]
[Notices]
[Pages 11341-11342]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 00-4971]


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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE


Notice of Lodging of Consent Decree Pursuant to the Comprehensive 
Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980, as 
Amended

    Consistent with Departmental policy, 28 C.F.R. 50.7, notice is 
hereby given that on February 7, 2000, a proposed consent decree in 
United States v. Ashland, Inc., et al., Civil Action No. 3:00 CV 252 
(AVC), was lodged with the United States District Court for the 
District of Connecticut. This proposed

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consent decree resolves the United States' claims under the 
Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act 
(``CERCLA''), 42 U.S.C. 9601 et seq., on behalf of the U.S. 
Environmental Protection Agency (``EPA'') against thirty potentially 
responsible parties relating to certain response costs that have been 
or will be incurred at or from a Site known as the Gallup's Quarry 
Superfund Site (``Site'') located in the Town of Plainfield, 
Connecticut, and the performance of the remedial action at the Site.
    The Consent Decree requires the defendants to fund and perform the 
selected remedy, specifically natural attenuation of contaminants in 
the soil and groundwater, a long-term sampling and analysis program, 
implementation of institutional controls to restrict the site use, five 
year site reviews to assure that the remedy continues to protect human 
health and the environment, and to pay certain of the United States' 
future costs at the Site.
    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. Any 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. Ashland, Inc., et al., D.J. Ref. 90-11-2-934A.
    The proposed consent decree may be examined at the Office of the 
United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, 450 Main 
Street, Hartford, CT., 06103; and at the Region I Office of the 
Environmental protection Agency, One Congress Street, Boston, MA., 
021114-2023. A copy of the proposed consent decree may be obtained by 
mail from the Consent Decree Library, P.O. Box 7611, Washington, DC 
20044. When requesting a copy please refer to the referenced case and 
enclosed a check made payable to the Consent Decree Library in the 
amount of $26.00 (there is a 25 cent per page reproduction costs).

Joel Gross,
Chief, Environmental Enforcement Section, Environment and Natural 
Resources Division.
[FR Doc. 00-4971 Filed 3-1-00; 8:45 am]
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