[Federal Register Volume 65, Number 54 (Monday, March 20, 2000)]
[Notices]
[Pages 15012-15013]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 00-6748]


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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE


Notice of Lodging of Consent Decrees Under the Comprehensive, 
Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act (``CERCLA'')

    Notice is hereby given that four proposed consent decrees in United 
States v. Mountain Metal Company, et al., Civil Action No. CV-98-2562-
S, and one proposed consent decree in United States v. Mountain Metal 
Company, et al., Civil Action No. CV-98-C-2562-S and consolidated 
action Exide Corporation and Johnson Controls, Inc., v. Aaron Scrap 
Metals, et al., Civil Action No. CV-98-J-2886-S, were lodged on March 
7, 2000, with the United States District Court for the Northern 
District of Alabama, Southern Division.
    In these actions, the United States and Exide Corporation and 
Johnson Control, Inc. have sought injunctive relief and recovery of 
response costs under Sections 106(a) and 107 of CERCLA, 42 U.S.C. 
9606(a) and 9607, against over forty generator defendants with respect 
to the Interstate Lead Company (``ILCO'') Superfund Site, located in 
Leeds, Jefferson County, Alabama (``the Site'').
    The United States has now agreed to settlement of its claims under 
Sections 106 and 107 of CERCLA, 42 U.S.C. 9606 and 9607, for existing 
contamination at the Site with respect to five defendants: Battery 
Post, Inc. (``Battery Post''), Goldsboro Iron & Metal Company, Inc. 
(``Goldsboro''), Micon Metals, Inc. (``Micon'') Omega Tire & Sales 
(``Omega'') and V.H. Holmes & Sons, Inc. (``V.H. Holmes''). Battery 
Post will pay $6,000 plus interest over a twelve month period to the 
United States to resolve its claims. Micon will pay $500 with 30 days 
of Decree entry, to the United States to resolve its claims. Omega will 
pay $1,000 within 30 days of Decree entry, to the United States to 
resolve its claims. V.H. Holmes will pay $20,000 plus interest within 
one year of Decree entry, to the United States to resolve its claims. 
Goldsboro will pay the United States $195,750, plus interest, within 30 
days of proposed consent decree entry to resolve its claims. Goldsboro 
will also pay Exide Corporation and Johnson Control, Inc., a total of 
$479,250 in principal plus interest, with $104,250 paid with 30 days of 
proposed consent decree entry, and 30 monthly payments of $12,500 plus 
interest to resolve the claims in the consolidated action.
    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 decrees. Comments should be addressed to the Assistant 
Attorney General of the Environment and Natural Resources Division, 
P.O. Box 7611, Department of Justice, Washington, DC 20044, and should 
refer to United States v. Mountain Metal Company, et al., Civil Action 
No. CV-98-C-2562-S and consolidated action Exide Corporation and 
Johnson Controls, Inc., v. Aaron Scrap Metals, et al., Civil Action No. 
CV-98-J-2886-S and DOJ #90-11-2-108/2.
    Any of the proposed consent decrees may be examined at the Office 
of the United States Attorney, Northern District of Alabama, 200 Robert 
S. Vance Federal Building & Courthouse, 1800 5th Ave. N., Room 200, 
Birmingham, AL 35203-2198, and at U.S. EPA Region 4, Atlanta Federal 
Center, 61 Forsyth Street, S.W. Atlanta, Georgia 30303. A copy of the 
Consent Decree also may be obtained by mail from the Department of 
Justice Consent Decree Library, P.O. Box 7611, Washington, DC 20044. In 
requesting a copy, please enclose a check in the amount of $8.00 (25 
cents per page reproduction costs) per

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Consent Decree, payable to the Consent Decree Library.

Joel M. Gross,
Chief, Environmental Enforcement Section, Environment and Natural 
Resources Division.
[FR Doc. 00-6748 Filed 3-17-00; 8:45 am]
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