[Federal Register Volume 66, Number 199 (Monday, October 15, 2001)]
[Notices]
[Pages 52451-52452]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 01-25878]


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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE


Notice of Lodging of Consent Decree Under Comprehensive 
Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act

    In accordance with Departmental policy, 28 CFR 50.7, notice is 
hereby given that a proposed consent decree in United States v. Sequa 
Corporation and John H. Thompson, C.A. No. 01-CV-4784 (E.D.Pa.), was 
lodged on September 20, 2001, with the United States District Court for 
the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. The consent decree resolves the 
United States' claims against defendants Sequa Corporation (``Sequa'') 
and John H. Thompson (``Thompson'') with respect to past response costs 
incurred through September 30, 1999, pursuant to Section 107 of the 
Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act, 
42 U.S.C. 9607. The costs were incurred in connection with the Dublin 
TCE Site, located in the Borough of Dublin, Bucks County, Pennsylvania. 
Defendant Thompson owns the Site property, or a portion thereof, and 
defendant Sequa conducted manufacturing activities at the Site, which 
became contaminated with trichloroethylene.
    Under the consent decree, defendants will pay the United States 
$3,200,000 in reimbursement of past response costs incurred in 
connection with the Site. Said amount will be paid within thirty (30) 
days after entry of the consent decree by the Court.
    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 Acting 
Assistant Attorney General for the Environment and Natural Resources 
Division, Department of Justice, Washington, DC 20530, and should refer 
to United States v. Sequa Corporation and John H. Thompson, DOJ 
Reference No. 90-11-2-780.
    The proposed consent decree may be examined at the Office of the 
United States Attorney, 615 Chestnut Street, Suite 1250, Philadelphia, 
Pennsylvania 19106; and the Region III Office of the Environmental 
Protection Agency, 1650 Arch Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. A copy 
of the proposed decree may be obtained by mail from the Department of 
Justice Consent Decree Library, P.O. Box 7611, Washington, DC 20044. In 
requesting a copy, please refer to the referenced case and enclose a 
check in the amount of $7.75 (.25 cents per page

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production costs), payable to the Consent Decree Library.

Robert D. Brook,
Assistant Chief, Environmental Enforcement Section, Environment and 
Natural Resources Division.
[FR Doc. 01-25878 Filed 10-12-01; 8:45 am]
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