[Federal Register Volume 68, Number 74 (Thursday, April 17, 2003)]
[Notices]
[Page 19007]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 03-9403]


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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE


Notice of Lodging of Consent Decree Under the Comprehensive 
Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act

    Under 28 CFR 50.7, notice is hereby given that on March 27, 2003, a 
proposed Consent Decree in United States v.  Mattiace Industries, Inc., 
et al., Civil Action No. CV-03-1011 (JS), was lodged with the United 
States District Court for the Eastern District of New York.
    In this action, filed pursuant to Section 107(a) of the 
Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act 
of 1980, as amended, 42 U.S.C. 9607(a), the United States seeks 
recovery of all response costs incurred and to be incurred by the 
United States at or in connection with the Mattiace Petrochemicals 
Superfund Site located at 16 Garvies Point Road in the City of Glen 
Cove, Nassau County, New York. The Consent Decree, which was lodged 
concurrently with the filing of the complaint, provides for 
reimbursement of a portion of EPA's past costs and interim and future 
costs, as well as a work takeover of the remedial action at the Site 
that will last for approximately 25 years. Approximately eighty parties 
are participating in the settlement and they are funding the future 
cleanup.
    The Department of Justice will receive for a period of thirty (30) 
days from the date of this publication comments relating to the Consent 
Decree. Comments should be addressed to the Assistant Attorney General, 
Environment and Natural Resources Division, PO Box 7611, U.S. 
Department of Justice, Washington, DC 20044-7611, and should refer to 
Mattiace Petrochemicals Superfund Site, D.J. Ref. 90-11-3-07234.
    The Consent Decree may be examined at the Office of the United 
States Attorney, Eastern District of New York, One Pierrepont Plaza, 
Brooklyn, New York 11201, and at U.S. EPA Region II, 290 Broadway, New 
York, New York 10007. During the public comment period, the Consent 
Decree may also be examined on the following Department of Justice Web 
site: http://www.usdoj.gov/enrd/open.html. A copy of the Consent Decree 
may also be obtained by mail from the Consent Decree Library, PO Box 
7611, U.S. Department of Justice, Washington, DC 20044-7611, or by 
faxing or e-mailing a request to Tonia Fleetwood 
([email protected]), fax no. (202) 514-0097, phone confirmation 
number (202) 514-1547. In requesting a copy from the Consent Decree 
Library, please enclose a check in the amount of $37.00 (exclusive of 
attachments) (25 cents per page reproduction cost), payable to the U.S. 
Treasury.

Ronald Gluck,
Assistant Chief, Environmental Enforcement Section, Environment and 
Natural Resources Division.
[FR Doc. 03-9403 Filed 4-16-03; 8:45 am]
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