[Federal Register Volume 67, Number 1 (Wednesday, January 2, 2002)]
[Notices]
[Pages 109-110]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 01-32220]


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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE


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

    Notice is hereby given that a proposed Consent Decree United 
States, et al. v. Montrose Chemical Corporation of California, et al., 
No. CV 90-3122-R (C.D. Cal), was lodged on December 21, 2001 with the 
United States District Court for the Central District of California.
    The consent decree resolves claims under Section 107 of the 
Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act 
of 1980, 42 U.S.C. 9607, as amended, brought against defendants 
Montrose Chemical Corporation of California (``Montrose''), Aventis 
CropScience USA, Inc., Chris-Craft Industries, Inc. (now News 
Publishing Australia Ltd., by merger), and Atkemix Thirty-Seven, Inc. 
(now Stauffer Management Company, LLC, by merger) (collectively, the 
``DDT Defendants''), for response costs incurred and to be incurred by 
the United States Environmental Protection Agency in connection with 
responding to the release and threatened release of hazardous 
substances at the ``Current Storm Water Pathway.'' The Current Storm 
Water Pathway consists of the following system of man-made storm water 
conveyances: the Kenwood Drain, the Torrance Lateral, the Dominguez 
Channel (from Laguna Dominguez, the most northern point of tidal 
influence in the Dominguez Channel, to the Consolidated Slip), and the 
portion of the Los Angeles Harbor known as the Consolidated Slip from 
the mouth of the Dominguez Channel south to but not extending beyond 
Pier 200B and 200Y.
    The proposed consent decree requires the DDT Defendants to pay $1.4 
million to the United States Environmental Protection Agency, $50,000 
to the California Department of Toxic Substances Control, and $450,000 
to the California Regional Water Quality Control Board, Los Angeles 
Region, which commits to spend this money on the Current Storm Water 
Pathway only. The consent decree includes a covenant not to sue by the 
United States under Sections 106 and 107 of the Comprehensive 
Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980, 42 
U.S.C. 9606 and 9607, and under Section 7003 of the Resource 
Conservation and Recovery Act, 42 U.S.C. 6973.
    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, 
U.S. Department of Justice, P.O. Box 7611, Washington, DC 20044; and 
refer to United States, et al. v. Montrose Chemical Corporation of 
California, et al., No. CV 90-3122-R (C.D. Cal), and DOJ Ref. #90-11-3-
511/3.
    The proposed settlement agreement may be examined at the Office of 
the United States Attorney, Central District of California, Federal 
Building, 300 North Los Angeles Street, Los Angeles, CA 90012; and the 
Region IX Office of the Environmental Protection Agency, 75 Hawthorne 
Street, San Francisco, CA 94105. A copy of the proposed Consent 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 $9.25 (25 cents per page reproduction

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costs), payable to the Consent Decree Library.

Bruce Gelber,
Section Chief, Environmental Enforcement Section, Environment and 
Natural Resources Division.
[FR Doc. 01-32220 Filed 12-31-01; 8:45 am]
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