[Federal Register Volume 70, Number 197 (Thursday, October 13, 2005)]
[Notices]
[Pages 59770-59771]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 05-20539]


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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE


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

    Notice is hereby given that on September 27, 2005, a proposed 
Settlement Agreement in In re FV Steel and Wire, No. 04-22421, was 
lodged with the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Eastern District 
of Wisconsin.
    On August 19, 2004, the United States, on behalf of the 
Environmental Protection Agency (``EPA''), filed a Proof of Claim under 
Section 107(a) of the Comprehensive Environmental Response, 
Compensation, and Recovery Act, as amended (``CERCLA''), 42 U.S.C. 
9607(a), against the Debtor seeking recovery of $2,441,702 in past 
costs incurred by EPA in responding to the release or threat of release 
of hazardous substances at the Pascale Property Site (``Site'') in 
Washington Township, New Jersey. The Settlement Agreement provides that 
the United States will have an allowed general unsecured claim against 
the Debtor in the amount of $732,000, and that the United States Army 
will pay $1,098,765 in reimbursement of EPA's response costs 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 Consent 
Decree. Comments should be addressed to the

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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 In re FV Steel and Wire, No. 04-22421, D.J. Ref. 
90-7-1-1/2.
    The Consent Decree may be examined at the Office of the United 
States Attorney, Eastern District of Wisconsin, 517 East Wisconsin 
Ave., Room 530, Milwaukee, WI, 53202, (contact Assistant United States 
Attorney Susan Knepel) and at U.S. EPA Region II, 290 Broadway, New 
York, New York 10007-1866 (contact Assistant Regional Counsel Clay 
Monroe). 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, 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 $8.25 (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. 05-20539 Filed 10-12-05; 8:45 am]
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