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

DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

Lodging of Consent Decree Pursuant to the Comprehensive

Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act

In accordance with Departmental policy, 28 CFR 50.7, notice is

hereby given that a proposed consent decree in United States v. Donald

Distler, Civil Action Nos. C-88-0200-L(A) and C-88-0201-L (A), was

lodged on April 26, 1994 with the United States District Court for the

Western District of Kentucky. The proposed Consent Decree concerns an

abandoned brickyard and a farm located in Hardin and Jefferson

counties, respectively. EPA incurred costs associated with the release

and threatened release of hazardous substances at both sites. Pursuant

to section 107(a) of the Comprehensive Environmental Response,

Compensation and Liability Act, as amended by the Superfund Amendments

and Reauthorization Act of 1986, Public Law 99-499, 42 U.S.C. 9607(a),

the Complaint in this action seeks recovery of all past response costs

incurred by the United States at the sites. Under the proposed Consent

Decree, the settling defendants and third-party defendants will pay in

excess of 83 percent of EPA's past response costs and all future

response costs to be incurred at the sites.

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 decree. Comments should be addressed to the Assistant

Attorney General for the Environment and Natural Resources Division,

Department of Justice, Washington, DC 20530, and should refer to United

States v. Donald Distler, DOJ Ref. #90-11-3-176/90-11-3-177.

The proposed consent decree may be examined at the office of the

United States Attorney, 510 West Broadway, Louisville, Kentucky 40202;

the Region IV Office of the Environmental Protection Agency, 345

Courtland Street, NE, Atlanta, Georgia 3036; and at the Consent Decree

Library, 1120 G Street, NW., 4th Floor, Washington, DC 20005, (202)

624-0892. A copy of the proposed consent decree may be obtained in

person or by mail from the Consent Decree Library, 1120 G Street, NW.,

4th Floor, Washington, DC 20005. In requesting a copy please refer to

the referenced case and enclose a check in the amount of $8.50 (25

cents per page reproduction costs), payable to the Consent Decree

Library.

John C. Cruden,

Chief, Environmental Enforcement Section, Environment and Natural

Resources Division.

[FR Doc. 94-12081 Filed 5-17-94; 8:45 am]

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