[Federal Register Volume 66, Number 165 (Friday, August 24, 2001)]
[Notices]
[Page 44646]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 01-21372]


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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE


Notice of Lodging of a Consent Decree Pursuant to the 
Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act

    Notice is hereby given that a proposed consent decree in United 
States v. Continental Equities, Inc., Civil Action No. 99-619-CIV-
Seitz-Garber, was lodged on August 9, 2001, with the United States 
District Court for the Southern District of Florida. The proposed 
Consent Decree would resolve certain claims under sections 106 and 107 
of the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and 
Liability Act of 1980, 42 U.S.C. 9606 and 9607, as amended brought 
against Continental Equities, Inc. to recover response costs incurred 
by the Environmental Protection Agency in connection with the release 
of hazardous substances at the Anodyne National Priorities List 
Superfund Site (``Site'') in Miami, Florida. The United States alleges 
that Settling Defendant is liable as a person who currently owns and 
owned a portion of the Site at the time of disposal of a hazardous 
substance. Under the proposed Consent Decree, the Settling Defendant 
will pay $350,000 to the Hazardous Substances Superfund to reimburse 
the United States for 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 Consent Decree. Comments should be addressed to the Assistant 
Attorney General for the Environment and Natural Resources Division, 
Department of Justice, P.O. Box 7611, Washington, DC 20530, and should 
refer to United States v. Continental Equities, Inc., Civil Action No. 
99-619-CIV (S.D.FL.), DOJ Ref. #90-11-2-881.
    The Consent Decree may be examined at the Region 4 Office of the 
Environmental Protection Agency, 61 Forsyth Street, Atlanta, GA 30303 
and the United States Attorney's Office for the Southern District of 
Florida, 99 NE. 4th Street, Miami, Florida, 33132 c/o Assistant U.S. 
Attorney Barbara Junge. A copy of the proposed consent decree may be 
obtained by mail from the Consent Decree Library, Post Office Box 7611, 
Washington, DC 20044. In requesting copies please refer to the 
referenced case and enclose a check in the amount of $12.00 (25 cents 
per page reproduction costs), payable to the Consent Decree Library.

Ellen Mahan,
Assistant Section Chief, Environmental Enforcement Section, Environment 
and Natural Resources Division.
[FR Doc. 01-21372 Filed 8-23-01; 8:45 am]
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