[Federal Register Volume 66, Number 107 (Monday, June 4, 2001)]
[Notices]
[Page 29992]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 01-13866]


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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 April 30, 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 
actions at the Site.
    The proposed Consent Decree provides for the recovery of response 
costs incurred by the United States in connection with EPA's cleanup of 
the Site through December 31, 2000, through the payment by the State of 
$99,440,000. In addition, this Consent Decree provides a general 
commitment by the State to construct and complete the final remedy at 
the Site and to pay future oversight costs that the United States may 
incur.
    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 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 $4.50 (25 cents per page 
reproduction cost) payable to the Consent Decree Library.

Ellen M. Mahan,
Assistant Section Chief, Enforcement Section.
[FR Doc. 01-13866 Filed 6-1-01; 8:45 am]
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