[Federal Register Volume 68, Number 11 (Thursday, January 16, 2003)]
[Notices]
[Page 2363]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 03-896]


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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE


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

    Notice is hereby given that a proposed consent decree in United 
States versus Estate of Joseph Savage and Four Acres of Land, More or 
Less, Located at 10 Brewster Street, Bridgeport, Connecticut, No. 302-
CV-2256-CFD was lodged with the United States District Court for the 
District of Connecticut on December 19, 2002 (the ``Consent Decree''). 
The Consent Decree will resolve the liability of the Estate of Joseph 
Savage (``the Estate'') to the United States, on behalf of the United 
States Environmental Protection Agency, under section 107(a) of the 
Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act, 
as amended (``CERCLA''), 42 U.S.C. 9607, for the recovery of costs 
incurred by the United States in connection with the Black Rock 
Shipyard Superfund Site (``the Site''), located at 10 Brewster Street, 
Bridgeport, Connecticut. The Consent Decree requires the Estate to use 
its best efforts to sell the property comprising the Site, which is 
property of the Estate, and to pay the proceeds of such EPA-approved 
sale to reimburse the United States for its past costs incurred at the 
Site, which are secured by a statutory lien on the Site property 
pursuant to section 107(l) of CERCLA, 42 U.S.C. 9607(l).
    The Department of Justice will receive, for a period of 30 days 
from the date of this publication, comments relating to the proposed 
Consent Decree. Comments should be addressed to the Assistant Attorney 
General, Environment and Natural Resources Division, P.O. Box 7611, 
U.S. Department of Justice, Washington, DC 20044-7611, and/or, to 
ensure timely delivery, via overnight delivery to Chief, Environmental 
Enforcement Section, 1425 New York Av. NW, 13th Fl., Washington, DC 
20005. Each communication should refer on its face to United States 
versus Estate of Joseph Savage and Four Acres of Land, More or Less, 
DOJ Ref.  90-11-3-07373.
    The proposed Consent Decree may be examined at the Office of the 
United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, 157 Church St., 
23rd Fl., New Haven, Connecticut 06510 (contact Assistant U.S. Attorney 
John Hughes), and the Region 1 Office of the Environmental Protection 
Agency, 1 Congress St., Suite 1100, Boston, Massachusetts 02114 
(contact Senior Enforcement Counsel Lloyd Selbst). A copy of the 
proposed Consent Decree may be obtained by mail from the Consent Decree 
Library, P.O. Box 7611, Washington, DC 20044-7611 or by faxing a 
request to Tonia Fleetwood, fax no. (202) 514-0097, phone confirmation 
number (202) 514-1547. In requesting a copy, please refer to United 
States versus Estate of Joseph Savage and Four Acres of Land, More or 
Less, DOJ Ref.  90-11-3-07373 and enclose a check in the 
amount of $3.75 (15 pages @ 25 cents per page reproduction costs) for 
the Consent Decree, payable to the U.S. Treasury.

Ronald Gluck,
Assistant Section Chief, Environmental Enforcement Section, Environment 
and Natural Resources Division.
[FR Doc. 03-896 Filed 1-15-03; 8:45 am]
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