[Federal Register Volume 65, Number 52 (Thursday, March 16, 2000)]
[Notices]
[Pages 14318-14319]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 00-6536]


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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE


Notice of Lodging of Partial Consent Decree Under the 
Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act, 
42 U.S.C. 9601 et seq.

    Under 28 CFR 50.7, notice is hereby given that on March 2, 2000, a 
proposed partial consent decree (``consent decree'') in United States 
v. Excel Corp., Civil Action No. 3:93CV119RM, was lodged with the 
United States District Court for the Northern District of Indiana.
    In this action the United States sought recovery, under Section 
107(a) of the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and 
Liability Act (``CERCLA''), 42 U.S.C. 9607(a), of response costs 
incurred in connection with the Main Street Well Field Site in Elkhart, 
Indiana (``Site''). The proposed consent decree provides for the 
payment by American Electronic Components, Inc., successor by statutory 
merger to defendant Durakool, Inc. (``AEC/Durakool''), of $2,700,000 of 
the United States' unrecovered response costs at the Site, plus 
interest.
    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 of the Environmental and Natural Resources Division, 
Department of Justice, P.O. Box 7611, Washington, DC 20044-7611, and 
should refer to United States v. Excel Corp., D.J. Ref. No. 90-11-3-
799.
    The proposed consent decree may be examined at the Office of the 
United States Attorney, 301 Federal Building, 204 South Main Street, 
South Bend, Indiana; and at the Region 5 Office of EPA, 77 West Jackson 
Blvd., Illinois 60604. A copy of the proposed consent decree may be 
obtained by mail from the Department of Justice Consent Decree Library, 
P.O. Box 7611, Washington, DC 20044. In requesting a

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copy, please enclose a check in the amount of $9.00 (25 cents per page 
reproduction cost) payable to the Consent Decree Library.

Joel M. Gross,
Chief, Environmental Enforcement Section, Environment and Natural 
Resources Division.
[FR Doc. 00-6536 Filed 3-15-00; 8:45 am]
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