[Federal Register Volume 66, Number 165 (Friday, August 24, 2001)]
[Notices]
[Pages 44645-44646]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 01-21373]


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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE


Notice of Lodging of Consent Decree Under the Comprehensive 
Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (``CERCLA'')

    In accordance with Departmental policy, see 28 CFR 50.7, 38 FR 
19029, and 42 U.S.C. 9622(d)(2), notice is hereby given that on July 
31, 2001, a proposed Consent Decree in United States v. Commerce 
Holding Company, Inc., No. 00-CV-1249 (DRH/ETB) (E.D.N.Y.), was lodged 
with the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New 
York. The proposed Consent Decree settles the United States's claims 
for past response costs against the Commerce Holding Company, Inc. 
(``Commerce'') for the Tronic Plating Superfund Site (``the Site'') 
under Section 107 of the Comprehensive Environmental Response, 
Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA), 42 U.S.C. 9607. Under the 
terms of the proposed consent decree, Commerce will pay at least 
$631,442.02 and up to $650,000, depending on the timing of the payment, 
to the United States as reimbursement for the past response costs the 
United States incurred at the Site.
    The Department of Justice will receive, for a period of thirty (30) 
days

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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, Ben Franklin Station, Washington, D.C. 
20044-7611, and should refer to United States v. Commerce Holding 
Company, Inc., No. 00-CV-1249 (DRH/ETB) (E.D.N.Y.) D.J. Ref. 90-11-3-
06298. Copies of all comments should also be sent to Alan Vinegrad, 
United States Attorney for the Eastern District of New York, F. 
Franklin Amanat, Assistant United States Attorney, One Pierrepont 
Plaza, 16th Floor, Brooklyn, NY 11201-2776.
    The proposed consent decree may be examined at EPA Region II, 
Office of the Environmental Protection Agency, 290 Broadway, New York, 
New York 10007-1866. A copy of the consent decree may also be obtained 
by mail from the Department of Justice Consent Decree Library, P.O. Box 
7611, Washington, DC 20044. In requesting a copy, please enclose a 
check in the amount of $4.50 (25 cents per page reproduction cost) 
payable to the Consent Decree Library.

Ronald G. Gluck,
Assistant Section Chief, Environmental Enforcement Section, Environment 
and Natural Resources Division--U.S. Department of Justice.
[FR Doc. 01-21373 Filed 8-23-01; 8:45 am]
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