[Federal Register Volume 67, Number 5 (Tuesday, January 8, 2002)]
[Notices]
[Page 919]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 02-362]


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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 Departmental policy and 28 CFR 50.7, notice is 
hereby given that a Consent Decree in United States v. Square D Co., 
Civ. A. 01-CV-6048, was lodged on December 4, 2001 with the United 
States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. The 
Consent Decree resolves the claims of the United States under section 
107 of the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and 
Liability Act against Square D Co. for reimbursement of $138,193, one 
hundred percent of outstanding response costs incurred in responding to 
contamination at the Rodale Manufacturing Superfund Site (``the Site'') 
located in the Borough of Emmaus, Lehigh County, Pennsylvania. The 
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania is also a party to the Consent Decree, 
which will reimburse the Commonwealth for all its past and future 
response costs.
    The Consent Decree also requires Square D Co. to pay all future 
response costs not inconsistent with the National Contingency Plan and 
to finance and to perform remedial work at the Site.
    The Department of Justice will receive, for a period of not less 
than 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, Washington, DC 20530, and 
should refer to United States v. Square D. Co. (01-CV-6048), DOJ Ref. 
#90-11-2-06943.
    The Consent Decree may be examined at the Office of the United 
States Attorney, 615 Chestnut Street, Suite 1250, Philadelphia, PA, 
19106, and at the Region III Office of the Environmental Protection 
Agency, 1650 Arch Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19103. A copy of 
the proposed Consent Decree may be obtained by mail from the Consent 
Decree Library, Department of Justice, PO Box 7611, Washington, DC 
20044-7611. In requesting a copy from the Consent Decree Library, 
please refer to the referenced case and enclose a check in the amount 
of $23.25 (25 cents per page reproduction cost), payable to the Consent 
Decree Library.

Robert Brook,
Assistant Section Chief, Environmental Enforcement Section, Environment 
and Natural Resources Division, United States Department of Justice, PO 
Box 7611, Washington, DC 20044-7611.
[FR Doc. 02-362 Filed 1-7-02; 8:45 am]
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