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

DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

Lodging of Modification to 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 on May 10, 1994, a proposed Modification to Consent

Decree in United States v. Ottati & Goss, Inc. et al, Civil No. 80-225-

L, and IMCERA Group, Inc. v. United States Environmental Protection

Agency, et al, 89-400-D, was lodged with the United States District

Court for the District of New Hampshire. The proposed Modification to

Consent Decree concerns the response to the existence of hazardous

substances at the Ottati & Goss/Great Lakes Container Corporation Site

located in New Hampshire pursuant to the Comprehensive Environmental

Response, Compensation and Liability Act, as amended and the Resource

Conservation and Recovery Act.

Under the terms of the Modification to Consent Decree, Mobil Oil

Corporation, a de minimis party, will directly reimburse the United

States $10,000 for costs related to the GLCC portion of the Site. In

addition, Mobil will pay IMCERA Group, Inc. an amount towards the $4

million payment made to the governments under the terms of the original

settlement based on Mobil's alleged volumetric share. Upon entry of the

Modification, Mobil will become a party to the Consent Decree entered

on December 22, 1993, between the Plaintiffs, IMCERA Group, Inc., and

over 300 de minimis parties, subject to the obligations and entitled to

the rights arising from that Decree.

The Department of Justice will receive for a period of thirty (30)

days from the date of this publication comments relating to the

proposed Modification to Consent Decree. Comments should be addressed

to the Assistant Attorney General of the Environment and Natural

Resources Division, Department of Justice, Ben Franklin Station,

Washington, DC 20044, and should refer to United States v. Ottati &

Goss, Inc., D.J. Ref. 90-7-1-79A.

The proposed Consent Decree may be examined at the Region 1 Office

of the Environmental Protection Agency, One Congress Street, Boston,

Massachusetts. Copies of the Consent Decree may be examined at the

Environmental Enforcement Section Document Center, 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 Document

Center. In requesting a copy, please refer to the referenced case and

enclose a check in the amount of $2.75 (25 cents per page reproduction

cost) made payable to Consent Decree Library.

John C. Cruden,

Chief, Environmental Enforcement Section, Environment and Natural

Resources Division.

[FR Doc. 94-12238 Filed 5-18-94; 8:45 am]

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