[Federal Register Volume 66, Number 39 (Tuesday, February 27, 2001)]
[Notices]
[Page 12544]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 01-4700]


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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE


Notice of Lodging of Consent Decree Pursuant to the Comprehensive 
Environmental Response Compensation and Liability Act (``CERCLA'')

    Consistent with Departmental policy, 28 CFR 50.7, and under section 
122(d) of CERCLA, 42 U.S.C. 9622(d), notice is hereby given that a 
proposed consent decree in United States v. Livingston, et al., Civ. 
No. 97-4770 (WGB), was lodged on February 13, 2001 with the United 
States District Court for the District of New Jersey. The Consent 
Decree concerns hazardous waste contamination at the Brook Industrial 
Park Superfund Site (the ``Site''), located in Bound Brook, Somerset 
County, New Jersey. The Consent Decree would resolve the liability for 
reimbursement of response costs incurred and to be incurred by the 
United States in connection with the Site as to three remaining 
defendants in this action against whom the United States filed a 
compliant on behalf of the Untied States Environmental Protection 
Agency (``EPA''). Also participating in the proposed consent decree are 
third-party defendants Fireman's Fund Insurance Co. and New Jersey 
Property-Liability Insurance Guaranty Association. The Consent Decree 
requires the settling parties to reimburse the EPA Hazardous Substance 
Superfund a total of $1.06 million, plus interest.
    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 Resource Division, P.O. Box 
7611, U.S. Department of Justice, Washington, DC 20044-7611, and should 
refer to United States v. Livingston, et al., DOJ Ref. #90-11-2-1287.
    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, New Jersey 07102 (contact Assistant Untied States 
Attorney Susan C. Cassell); and the Region II Office of the 
Environmental Protection Agency, 290 Broadway, New York, New York, 
10007-1866 (contact Assistant Regional Counsel Muthu S. Sundram). A 
copy of the proposed consent decree may be obtained by mail from the 
Consent Decree Library, P.O. Box 7611, Washington, DC 20044-7611. 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.

Ronald G. Gluck,
Assistant Chief, Environmental Enforcement Section, Environment and 
Natural Resources Division.
[FR Doc. 01-4700 Filed 2-26-01; 8:45 am]
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