[Federal Register Volume 65, Number 108 (Monday, June 5, 2000)]
[Notices]
[Page 35671]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 00-13907]


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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE


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

    Pursuant to Section 122(d)(2) of the Comprehensive Environmental 
Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (``CERCLA''), 42 U.S.C. 
9622(d)(2), and 28 CFR 50.7, notice is hereby given that a proposed 
consent decree embodying a settlement in United States v. ITT 
Industries, Inc., et al., No. CV 99-00552 MRP (ANx), was lodged on May 
17, 2000, with the United States District Court for the Central 
District of California, Western Division.
    In an amended complaint filed concurrently with the lodging of the 
consent decree, the United States and the State of California seek 
injunctive relief for performance of response actions and reimbursement 
of response costs incurred by the United States Environmental 
Protection Agency (``EPA'') and by the California Department of Toxic 
Substances Control (``DTSC''), pursuant to Sections 106 and 107 of 
CERCLA, 42 U.S.C. 9606, 9607, in response to releases of hazardous 
substances at the Glendale North and South Operable Units (``OUs'') of 
the San Fernando Valley Basin Superfund Site, in Southern California.
    Under the proposed consent decree, the settling defendants have 
agreed to fund and perform future response actions at the Glendale OUs. 
Future work includes construction, operation and maintenance of a 
groundwater extraction and treatment system. After four months of 
operation and maintenance by the settling defendants, the City of 
Glendale, a party to the consent decree although not a defendant in the 
complaint, shall assume responsibility for future operation and 
maintenance of the extraction and treatment system, as well as of 
certain other facilities.
    In addition, the consent decree requires the settling defendants to 
pay $13,226,949 in EPA past costs, together with $38,053 in Department 
of Justice costs, to the United States and $83,550 in DTSC past costs 
to the State of California.
    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 for the Environment and Natural Resources Division, 
U.S. Department of Justice, Box 7611, Ben Franklin Station, Washington, 
DC 20044-7611, and should refer to United States v. ITT Industries, 
Inc., et al., DOJ Ref. #90-11-2-442A. Commenters may request a public 
hearing in the affected area, pursuant to Section 7003(d) of RCRA, 42 
U.S.C 6973(d).
    The proposed consent decree may be examined at the EPA Region 9 
Superfund Records Center, 75 Hawthorne Street, Fourth Floor, San 
Francisco, California 94105, and at the Office of the United States 
Attorney for the Central District of California, Federal Building, Room 
7516, 300 North Los Angeles Street, Los Angeles, California 90012. A 
copy of the proposed consent decree may also be obtained by mail from 
the Department of Justice Consent Decree Library, Box 7611, Ben 
Franklin Station, Washington, DC 20044-7611. In requesting a copy, 
please refer to the referenced case and enclose a check in the amount 
of $110.50 (25 cents per page reproduction costs), payable to the 
Consent Decree Library. A copy of the decree, exclusive of the 
defendants' signature pages and the attachments, may be obtained for 
$26.25.

Joel Gross,
Chief, Environmental Enforcement Section, Environment and Natural 
Resources Division.
[FR Doc. 00-13907 Filed 6-2-00; 8:45 am]
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