[Federal Register Volume 67, Number 100 (Thursday, May 23, 2002)]
[Notices]
[Page 36227]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 02-12875]


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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 partial consent decree in 
United States and State of California v. Oil & Solvent Process Company, 
Chemical Waste Management, Inc., Fairchild Holding Corporation, and R. 
H. Peterson Company, Consolidated Cases: CV 98-0760, CV 97-8230, CV 96-
6634 TJH was lodged on April 22, 2002, with the United States District 
Court for Central District of California. The proposed Consent Decree 
would resolve certain claims against Oil & Solvent Process Company, 
Chemical Waste Management, Inc., and R. H. Peterson Company under 
Sections 107 of the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, 
and Liability Act of 1980, 42 U.S.C. 9606 & 9607, as amended brought 
against all of the above captioned defendants to recover response costs 
incurred by the Environmental Protection Agency in connection with the 
release of hazardous substances at the San Gabriel Valley Superfund 
Sites, Suburban Operable Unit (``Site'') in Los Angeles, California. 
The United States alleges that Settling Defendants are liable as 
persons who currently own or owned a portion of the Site at the time of 
disposal of a hazardous substance. Under the proposed partial Consent 
Decree, the Settling Defendants will pay $950,000, of which $47,500 
will be paid to the State of California and $902,500 will be paid 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, D.C. 20530, and 
should refer to United States and State of California v. Oil & Solvent 
Process Company, Chemical Waste Management, Inc., Fairchild Holding 
Corporation, and R. H. Peterson Company., Consolidated Cases: CV 98-
0760, CV 97-8230, CV 96-6634 TJH, DOJ Ref.  90-11-3-1691.
    The Consent Decree may be examined at the Region 9 Office of the 
Environmental Protection Agency, 75 Hawthorne Street, San Francisco, CA 
94105 and the United States Attorney's Office for the Central District 
of California, Federal Building, 300 North Los Angeles Street, Los 
Angeles, California 90012 c/o Assistant United States Attorney Suzette 
Clover. A copy of the proposed consent decree may be obtained by mail 
from the Consent Decree Library, Post Office Box 7611, Washington, D.C. 
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 United States Treasury.

Ellen Mahan,
Assistant Section Chief, Environmental Enforcement Section, Environment 
and Natural Resources Division.
[FR Doc. 02-12875 Filed 5-22-02; 8:45 am]
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