[Federal Register Volume 66, Number 61 (Thursday, March 29, 2001)]
[Notices]
[Pages 17198-17199]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 01-7675]


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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 Department policy, 28 CFR 50.7, notice is hereby 
given than a consent decree in United States and State of Maine v. 
Allen's Transfer & Storage, et al., Civil No. ME Civ. No. 00-249-B-C 
and NH Civ. No. C.01-27-M (D.Me.), was lodged on March 7, 2001 with the 
United States District Court for the District of Maine.
    The proposed consent decree embodies an agreement with 130 
potentially responsible parties, pursuant to section 107 of CERCLA, 42 
U.S.C. 9607, to pay $2,821,261.75, in aggregate, and five federal 
potentially responsible parties to pay $257,383.67, in aggregate, in 
reimbursement of past response costs at the Hows Corner Superfund Site 
in Plymouth, Maine (``Site''). A total of

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$2,552,976.96 of these amounts will be paid to United States and the 
balance will be paid to the State of Maine.
    The monies paid by the settling defendants under the consent decree 
is to reimburse past costs incurred at the Site. The consent decree 
provides the settling defendants with releases for civil liability for 
EPA's and the State's past response costs 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 consent decree. Comments should be addressed to the Assistant 
Attorney General for the Environment and Natural Resources Division, 
U.S. Department of Justice, P.O. Box 7611, Washington, D.C. 20044-7611, 
and should refer to United States v. and State of Maine v. Allen's 
Transfer & Storage, et al., DOJ Ref. No. 90-11-3-1733/1.
    The proposed consent decree may be examined at the Office of the 
United States Attorney, 99 Franklin Street, 2nd Floor, Bangor, ME 
04401, and at the Region I Office of the Environment Protection Agency, 
Region I Records Center, 1 Congress Street, Suite 1100, Boston, MA 
02114-2023. A copy of the proposed consent decree may be obtained by 
mail from the Consent Decree Library, P.O. Box 8611, Washington, DC 
20044-7611. In requesting a copy, please refer to the referenced case 
and enclose a check in the amount of $38.50 (25 cents per page 
reproduction costs), payable to the Consent Decree Library.

Ronald G. Gluck,
Assistant Section Chief, Environmental Enforcement Section, Environment 
and Natural Resources Division.
[FR Doc. 01-7675 Filed 3-28-01; 8:45 am]
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