[Federal Register Volume 66, Number 139 (Thursday, July 19, 2001)]
[Notices]
[Pages 37707-37708]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 01-18080]


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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 28 CFR 50.7 and section 122 of the Comprehensive 
Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act (``CERCLA''), 42 
U.S.C. 9622, the Department of Justice gives notice that a proposed 
consent decree, in United States v. State of Wisconsin, et al., Civil 
No. 01-C-0394-S (W.D. Wisc.), was lodged with the United States 
District Court for the Western District of Wisconsin on July 10, 2001, 
pertaining to the Refuse Hideaway Landfill Superfund Site located in 
the Town of Middleton, Dane County, Wisconsin (the ``Site''). The 
proposed consent decree would resolve the United States' civil claims 
under sections 106 and 107 of CERCLA, 42 U.S.C. 9606 and 9607, against 
the Settling Defendants: The State of Wisconsin, 3 transporters and 157 
generators, including 8 municipalities. The proposed consent decree 
also resolves claims against 4 Settling Federal Agencies.
    Under the proposed consent decree, the State of Wisconsin, as 
Settling Performing Party, is obligated to finance and perform the 
completion of the remedial action at the Site and conduct long term 
operation and maintenance (``O&M'') at the Site, as specified in the 
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's (``FPA's'') Record of Decision 
(``ROD''), issued June 28, 1995, as modified under an Explanation of 
Significant Differences (``ESD''), issued September 30, 1998, at an 
estimated net present value of $1.3 million. The remaining 160 Settling 
Defendants would be obligated to pay approximately $3.5 million to the 
United States and State of Wisconsin. The United States would receive 
$793,895 in reimbursement of past response costs and future response 
costs at the Site, and the State would receive the balance of the 
payments to be used for financing the State's future response work at 
the Site and for reimbursement of the State's past response costs 
incurred in connection with the Site. In addition, the United States, 
on behalf of the 4 Settling Federal Agencies, would pay $32,845 to the 
Superfund in reimbursement of past response costs and premium payments 
for future response costs incurred and to be incurred 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

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consent decree. Comments should be addressed to the Assistant Attorney 
General, Environment and Natural Resources Division, United States 
Department of Justice, Washington, DC 20530, and should refer to United 
States v. State of Wisconsin, et al., Civil No. 01-C-0394-S (W.D. 
Wisc.), and DOJ Reference No. 90-11-2-1184.
    The proposed consent decree maybe examined at: (1) The Office of 
the United States Attorney for the Western District of Wisconsin, 660 
West Washington Avenue, Suite 200, Madison, Wisconsin 53703, (608-264-
5158); and (2) the United States Environmental Protection Agency 
(Region 5), 77 West Jackson Boulevard, Chicago, Illinois 60604-3590 
(contact: Jacqueline Kline (312-886-7167)). A copy of the proposed 
consent decree may be obtained by mail from the Consent Decree Library, 
U.S. Department of Justice, PO Box 7611, Washington, DC 20044-7611. In 
requesting a copy, please refer to the referenced case and DOJ 
Reference Number and enclose a check in the amount of $18.00 for the 
consent decree only (72 pages, at 25 cents per page reproduction 
costs), or $110.50 for the consent decree and all appendices (442 
pages), made payable to the Consent Decree Library.

William D. Brighton,
Assistant Chief, Environmental Enforcement Section, Environment and 
Natural Resources Division.
[FR Doc. 01-18080 Filed 7-18-01; 8:45 am]
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