[Federal Register Volume 65, Number 80 (Tuesday, April 25, 2000)]
[Notices]
[Pages 24224-24225]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 00-10230]


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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 codified at 28 CFR 
50.7

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and Section 122 of CERCLA, 42 U.S.C. 9622, notice is hereby given that 
on April 11, 2000, a proposed Consent Decree in United States v. SC 
Holding, et al., Civ. Action No. 1:00CV150, was lodged with the United 
States District Court for the Northern District of Indiana. This 
Consent Decree represents a settlement of claims of the United States 
and the State of Indiana, on behalf of federal and State natural 
resource trustees, under Section 107(a) of CERCLA, 42 U.S.C. 9607(a), 
against SC Holdings and eight-six (86) other potentially responsible 
parties for natural resource damages resulting from the release of 
hazardous substances at or from the Fort Wayne Reduction Superfund Site 
located in Fort Wayne, Allen County, Indiana. Under this Consent 
Decree, the Settling Defendants, which include two site owners and 
seventeen generators of hazardous substances, will implement a 
restoration plan under which they will, among other things, acquire 
approximately 75 acres of land adjacent to the Maumee River 
(``Property''), reforest and restore approximately 45 acres of the 
Property, place a deed restriction (in the form of a conservation 
easement) on the Property and convey the Property to the Indiana 
Department of Natural Resources. The Settling Defendants will reimburse 
the federal natural resource trustee, the United States Department of 
Interior, through the United States Fish and Wildlife Service, $90,000 
in estimated natural resource damage assessment costs and $8,000 in 
estimated project oversight costs. The Settling Defendants will also 
reimburse the State natural resource damage trustee, the State of 
Indiana, through the Indiana Department of Environmental Management and 
the Indiana Department of Natural Resources, $2,000 and $1,500 
respectively, for their natural resource damage assessment costs and 
estimated project oversight costs. Finally, sixty-eight (68) parties 
who contributed small amounts of hazardous substances to the Site and 
who previously settled their natural resource damage liability with the 
Settling Defendants will receive a covenant not to sue from the United 
States and the State of Indiana for natural resource damages resulting 
from releases of hazardous substances at or from 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 of the Environment and Natural Resources Division, 
Department of Justice, 950 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 
20530, and should refer to United States v. SC Holdings et al., Civ. 
Action No. 1:00CV150, D.J. Ref. Nos. 90-11-3-1687/2, 90-11-6-05585.
    The Consent Decree may be examined at the Office of the United 
States Attorney, 3128 Federal Building, 1300 South Harrison Street, 
Fort Wayne, Indiana 46802, and at the United States Fish and Wildlife 
Service, 620 South Walker Street, Bloomington, Indiana 47403. A copy of 
the Consent Decree may also be obtained by mail from the Consent Decree 
Library, P.O. Box 7611, U.S. Department of Justice, Washington, DC 
20044-7611. In requesting a copy of the Consent Decree, please enclose 
a check in amount of $22.50 (90 pages at 25 cents per page reproduction 
cost) payable to the Consent Decree Library.

Joel M. Gross,
Chief, Environmental Enforcenent Section, Environment & Natural 
Resources Division.
[FR Doc. 00-10230 Filed 4-24-00; 8:45 am]
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