[Federal Register Volume 66, Number 8 (Thursday, January 11, 2001)]
[Notices]
[Page 2447]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 01-935]


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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE


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

    Notice is hereby given that a consent decree in United States of 
America v. Sonoco Products Company, Civil Action No. 00-CV-5802 (E.D. 
Pa.) was lodged with the court on November 15, 2000.
    The proposed consent decree resolves the claims of the United 
States of America against defendant Sonoco Products Company, under 
section 107 of the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation 
and Liability Act, as amended (``CERCLA''), 42 U.S.C. 9607, for past 
response costs at the Struble Trail Superfund Site located at East Caln 
Township, in Chester County, Pennsylvania (the ``Site''), which was 
owned and operated by Downingtown Paper Company, the predecessor by 
merger to the Defendant, Sonoco Products Company. The decree obligates 
the Settling Defendant to reimburse $36,936.98 of the United States' 
past response costs.
    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, P.O. Box 
7611, U.S. Department of Justice, Washington, DC 20044-7611, and should 
refer to United States of America v. Sonoco Products Company, DOJ Ref. 
#90-11-3-07203.
    The proposed consent decree may be examined and copied at the 
Office of the United States Attorney, 615 Chestnut Street, Suite 1250, 
Philadelphia, PA 19106; or at the Region III Office of the 
Environmental Protection Agency, c/o Thomas A. Cinti, Assistant 
Regional Counsel, 1650 Arch Street, Philadelphia, PA 19103. A copy of 
the proposed consent decree may be obtained by mail from the Consent 
Decree Library, P.O. Box No. 7611, Washington DC 20044. In requesting a 
copy, please refer to the referenced case and enclose a check in the 
amount of $5.25 (25 cents per page reproduction costs), payable to the 
Consent Decree Library. A copy of the exhibits to the decree may be 
obtained from the same source for an additional charge.

Nuriye C. Uygur,
Assistant U.S. Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of 
Pennsylvania.
[FR Doc. 01-935 Filed 1-10-01; 8:45 am]
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