[Federal Register Volume 66, Number 46 (Thursday, March 8, 2001)]
[Notices]
[Pages 13965-13966]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 01-5704]


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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 a proposed Consent Decree in United States v. City of 
Arkansas City, Kansas, et al. Civil Action No. 01-1056-JTM was lodged 
on February 22, 2001, with the United States District Court for the 
District of Kansas. With regard to the Defendants, City of Arkansas 
City, Kansas, City of Winfield, Kansas, General Electric Company, Greif 
Bros. Corporation, Gordon-Piatt Energy Group, Inc., Strother Field 
Commission

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and Tenneco Automotive Inc., (``Settling Defendants''), the Consent 
Decree resolves a claim filed by the United States on behalf of the 
United States Environmental Protection Agency (``EPA'') pursuant to the 
Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act, 
as amended, 42 U.S.C. 9601, et seq.
    The United States entered into the Consent Decree in connection 
with the Strother Field Site located in Cowley County, Kansas. The 
Consent Decree provides that the Settling Defendants will be 
responsible for reimbursing the United States for past costs and 
implementing injunctive relief related to contaminated soil at 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 Settlement Order. Comments should be addressed to the 
Assistant Attorney General for the Environment and Natural Resources 
Division, Department of Justice, Washington, DC 20530, and should refer 
to United States v. City of Arkansas City, Kansas, et al., DOJ Ref. 
#90-11-3-1277.
    The proposed Consent Decree may be examined at either of the 
following locations: (1) The Office of the United States Attorney, 
District of Kansas, 500 State Avenue, Suite 360, Kansas City, Kansas; 
or (2) Office of Regional Counsel, Environmental Protection Agency, 901 
North 5th Street, Kansas City, Kansas. 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 (without attachments), please enclose a check in the 
amount of $17.00 (25 cents per page reproduction cost) payable to the 
Consent Decree Library. In requesting a copy of attachments only, 
please enclose a check in the amount of $30.25 (25 cents per page 
reproduction cost) payable to the Consent Decree Library.

Bruce S. Gelber,
Chief, Environmental Enforcement Section.
[FR Doc. 01-5704 Filed 3-7-01; 8:45 am]
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