[Federal Register Volume 68, Number 11 (Thursday, January 16, 2003)]
[Notices]
[Page 2362]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 03-897]


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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE


Notice of Lodging of Consent Decrees Pursuant to the 
Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act

    In accordance with Departmental policy, notice is hereby given that 
on January 8, 2003, three proposed consent decrees in the case 
captioned Dow Chemical Co., et al. v. Acme Wrecking Co., Inc., et al., 
Civil Action Nos. C-1-97-0307, C-1-97-0308, and C-1-01-439-(S.D. Ohio), 
were lodged with the United States District Court for the Southern 
District of Ohio. The proposed, de minimis consent decrees relate to 
the Skinner Landfill Superfund Site (``Site'') in West Chester, Ohio. 
The proposed consent decrees would resolve civil claims of the United 
States for response actions and for the recovery of response costs at 
the Site under Sections 106 and 107(a) of the Comprehensive 
Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act, as amended, 42 
U.S.C. 9606, 9607(a), against Aeronca, Inc. (``Aeronca''), Martin E. 
Clarke, Clarke Sanitary Landfill, Clarke Container, Inc., Clarke's 
Incinerators, Inc. (the ``Martin Clarke Entities''), Richard M. Clarke, 
Clarke's Complete Collection, Dick Clarke Co., Dick Clarke Trash 
Removal and Demolition, Clarke's Services, Inc., and Clarke, Inc. (the 
``Dick Clarke Entities'') (collectively ``Settling Defendants''). Under 
the proposed consent decree with Aeronca, Aeronca would pay the United 
States $232,500 and would pay the parties that are performing the work 
at the Site (the ``Skinner Landfill Site Group'') $232,500. Under the 
proposed consent decree with the Martin Clarke Entities, the Martin 
Clarke Entities would pay the United States $88,000 and would pay the 
Skinner Landfill Site Group $88,000. Under the proposed consent decree 
with the Dick Clarke Entities, the Dick Clarke Entities would pay the 
United States $100,500, and would pay the Skinner Landfill Site Group 
$25,500.
    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 decrees. Comments should be addressed to the Assistant 
Attorney General of the Environment and Natural Resource Division, 
Department of Justice, Washington, DC 20530, and should refer to Dow 
Chemical Co. et al. v. Acme Wrecking Co., Inc. et al., Civil Action 
Nos. C-1-97-0307, C-1-97-0308, and C-1-01-439 (S.D. Ohio), and DOJ 
Reference No. 90-11-3-1620/2.
    The proposed consent decrees may be examined at: (1) The Office of 
the United States Attorney for the Southern District of Ohio, 221 E. 
Fourth St., Suite 400, Cincinnati, Ohio 45202 and (2) the United States 
Environmental Protection Agency (Region 5), 77 West Jackson Boulevard, 
Chicago, Illinois 60604-3590. Copies of the proposed consent decrees 
may be obtained by mail from the Department of Justice Consent Decree 
Library, P.O. Box 7611, Washington, DC 20044. In requesting copies, 
please refer to the above-referenced case and DOJ Reference Number and 
enclose a check for $9.50 (38 pages at 25 cents per page reproduction 
cost) for the Consent Decree with Aeronca, $9.00 (36 pages) for the 
Consent Decree with the Martin Clarke Entities, and/or $8.50 (34 pages) 
for the Consent Decree with the Dick Clarke Entities, made payable to 
the Consent Decree Library.

William D. Brighton,
Assistant Section Chief, Environmental Enforcement Section, Environment 
and Natural Resources Division.
[FR Doc. 03-897 Filed 1-15-03; 8:45 am]
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