[Federal Register Volume 65, Number 68 (Friday, April 7, 2000)]
[Notices]
[Page 18351]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 00-8603]


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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE


Notice of Lodging of Consent Decree Under the Comprehensive 
Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act

    Notice is hereby given that a Consent Decree in U.S.  v. Arnet 
Realty Co., et al., Civil Action No. 00-1294 (AJL) (D.N.J.) was lodged 
with the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey on 
March 17, 2000.
    The proposed consent decree resolves claims asserted by the United 
States, on behalf of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency 
(``EPA''), against: Madison Industries, Inc.; Old Bridge Chemicals, 
Co.; Arnet Realty Company and its two partners, Arnold Asman and Nettie 
Bzura; and Ciba Specialty Chemicals Water Treatments, Inc. (formerly 
CPS Chemical Company, Inc., a subsidiary of Ciba Specialty Chemicals 
Corporation. (``Settling Defendants'') under Section 107 of the 
Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act 
(``CERCLA''), 42 U.S.C. 9607. The claims sought to recover past 
response costs incurred at the CPS/Madison site (``Site'') in Middlesex 
County, New Jersey. The proposed Consent Decree requires the Settling 
Defendants to reimburse the United States $500,000 in past response 
costs.
    The Department of Justice will accept written comments relating to 
the proposed consent decree for thirty (30) days from the date of 
publication of this notice. Please address comments to the Assistant 
Attorney General, Environment and Natural Resources Division, 
Department of Justice, P.O. Box 7611, Ben Franklin Station, Washington, 
D.C. 20044 and refer to U.S. v. Arnet Realty Co., et al., Civil Action 
No. 00-1294 (AJL) (D.N.J.), DJ #90-11-3-1525.
    Copies of the proposed consent decree may be examined at the Office 
of the United States Attorney for the District of New Jersey, 970 Broad 
Street, Newark, NJ 07102, or at the U.S. Environmental Protection 
Agency, Region II, 290 Broadway, New York, NY 10007-1866. A copy of the 
proposed Settlement Agreement may also be obtained by mail from the 
Consent Decree Library, P.O. Box 7611, Washington, D.C. 20044. When 
requesting a copy of the consent decree by mail, please enclose a check 
in the amount of $7.00 (twenty-five cents per page reproduction costs) 
payable to the ``Consent Decree Library.''

Joel M. Gross,
Chief, Environmental Enforcement Section, Environment and Natural 
Resources Division, U.S. Department of Justice.
[FR Doc. 00-8603 Filed 4-6-00; 8:45 am]
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