[Federal Register Volume 66, Number 24 (Monday, February 5, 2001)]
[Notices]
[Pages 8983-8984]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 01-2907]


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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 Departmental policy 28 CFR 50.7, notice is 
hereby given that on January 11, 2001, a proposed Consent Decree in 
United States v. J.B. Stringfellow, Jr. et al., Civil Action No. 83-
2501 (R), was lodged with the United States District Court for the 
Central District of California. The Complaint in this action was 
brought pursuant to, inter alia, the Comprehensive Environmental 
Response, Compensation, and Liability Act, 42 U.S.C. 9601 et seq., to 
recover costs incurred in connection with remedial activities at the 
Stringfellow Superfund Site in Riverside, California, and to obtain 
injunctive relief requiring the defendants to take further remedial 
activities at the site.
    Pursuant to the proposed Consent Decree, Rainbow Canyon 
Manufacturing Corporation, which is alleged to be a contributor of 
hazardous substances to the Site, will resolve its liability to the 
United States and the State in this action through a payment to the 
United States of $150,000 to be exclusively for response actions in 
connection with the Stringfellow Superfund Site.
    The Department of Justice will receive, for a period of thirty (30) 
days

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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, P.O. Box 7611, Ben Franklin Station, Washington, DC 20044. 
Comments should refer to United States v. J.B. Stringfellow, Jr. et 
al., Civil Action No. 83-2501 (R), D.J. Ref. No. 90-11-2-24.
    The proposed Consent Decree may be examined at either of the 
following locations: (1) The Office of the United States Attorney, 
Central District of California, Federal Building, Room 7516, 300 North 
Los Angeles Street, Los Angeles, California; or (2) Office of Regional 
Counsel, Environmental Protection Agency, 75 Hawthorne St., San 
Francisco, California. A copy of the consent decree can be obtained by 
mail from the Department of Justice Consent Decree Library, P.O. Box 
7611, Washington, DC 20044. In requesting a copy of the consent decree, 
please enclose a check in the amount of $3.25 (25 cents per page 
reproduction cost) payable to the Consent Decree Library.

Bruce Gelber,
Chief, Environmental Enforcement Section.
[FR Doc. 01-2907 Filed 2-2-01; 8:45 am]
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