[Federal Register Volume 69, Number 58 (Thursday, March 25, 2004)]
[Notices]
[Pages 15380-15381]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 04-6637]


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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE


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

    Consistent with Departmental policy 28 CFR Sec.  50.7, 38 FR 19029, 
and 42 U.S.C. Sec.  9622(d), notice is hereby given that on March 8, 
2004, a proposed consent decree in United States v. Atlantic Richfield 
Company, Inc., Civil Action No. 02-CV-0485E, was lodged with the United 
States District Court for the Western District of New York.
    In this action, the United States sought recovery of response 
costs, pursuant to Section 107(a) of CERCLA, 42 U.S.C. Sec.  9607(a), 
incurred related to the Sinclair Refinery Superfund Site located in the 
Village and Town of Wellsville, Allegany County, New York. The Consent 
Decree requires settling defendant Atlantic Richfield Company to pay 
$1,834,712 to the United States reimbursement of past response costs 
incurred with respect to the Site, and to pay all future oversight 
costs incurred

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by the United States with respect to the Site, subject to certain 
annual caps. 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, P.O. Box 
7611, U.S. Department of Justice, Washington, DC 20044-7611, and should 
refer to United States v. Atlantic Richfield Company, Inc., D.J. Ref. 
90-11-3-298/1.
    The consent decree may be examined at the Office of the United 
States Attorney, Western District of New York, Federal Center, 138 
Delaware Avenue, 4th Floor, Buffalo, New York 14202 (contact AUSA Mary 
K. Roach), and at U.S. EPA Region II, 290 Broadway, New York, New York 
10007-1866 (contact Carol Berns). During the public comment period, the 
consent decree also may be examined on the Department of Justice 
website at http://www.usdoj.gov/enrd/open.html. A copy of the consent 
decree also may be obtained by mail from the Consent Decree Library, 
P.O. 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 $15.25 (25 cents per 
page reproduction cost) payable to the U.S. Treasury.

Ronald G. Gluck,
Assistant Chief, Environmental Enforcement Section, Environmental and 
Natural Resources Divison.
[FR Doc. 04-6637 Filed 3-24-04; 8:45 am]
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