[Federal Register Volume 65, Number 64 (Monday, April 3, 2000)]
[Notices]
[Pages 17533-17534]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 00-8076]


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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 Department of Justice policy, 28 CFR 50.7, 
notice is hereby given that a proposed consent decree in the action 
entitled United States of America v. Bruce Migell, the Tilton Trust, 
Bruce Migell-Trustee, and Atlantic Battery Company, Inc., d/b/a

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Surrette American Battery (Civil No. 99-255-M, D. N.H.), was lodged on 
March 22, 2000, with the United States District Court for the District 
of New Hampshire. The proposed consent decree resolves claims of the 
United States, on behalf of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency 
(``EPA''), under the Comprehensive Environmental Response, 
Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980, as amended (``CERCLA''), 42 
U.S.C. 9601-9675, against Bruce Migell, the Tilton Trust Bruce Migell-
Trustee, and Atlantic Battery Company, Inc., d/b/a/ Surrette America 
Battery (hereinafter, defendants). These claims are for recovery of 
costs incurred and to be incurred by the United States with respect to 
the Surrette America Battery Removal Site in Northfield, New Hampshire
    Under the terms of the proposed consent decree, defendants will (1) 
pay the United States $40,000 in partial reimbursement of past and 
future federal response costs with respect to the Site; and (2) provide 
EPA with continuing access to property owned by defendants that is part 
of 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. Comments should be addressed to the Assistant 
Attorney General, Environment and Natural Resources Division, U.S. 
Department of Justice, 950 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W., Washington, D.C. 
20530, and should refer to United States of America v. Bruce Migell, 
the Tilton Trust, Bruce Migell-Trustee, and Atlantic Battery Company, 
Inc., d/b/a/ Surrette American Battery (Civil No. 99-255-M, D. N.H.), 
DOJ Ref. No. 90-11-3-06012.
    The proposed consent decree may be examined at the offices of EPA 
Region I, One Congress Street, Suite 1100, Boston, MA 02114-2023, and 
the Office of the United States Attorney, Federal Building, 55 Pleasant 
Street, Concord, New Hampshire 03301. A copy may be obtained by mail 
from the Consent Decree Library, U.S. Department of Justice, P.O. Box 
7611, Ben Franklin Station, Washington, D.C. 20044-7611. In requesting 
a copy by mail, please refer to the referenced case and enclose a check 
in the amount of $5.75 (25 cents per page reproduction costs for the 
Decree and Appendix) made payable to Consent Decree Library.

Joel M. Gross,
Chief, Environmental Enforcement Section, Environmental and Natural 
Resources Division, U.S. Department of Justice.
[FR Doc. 00-8076 Filed 3-31-00; 8:45 am]
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