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

DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

Notice of Lodging of Consent Decree Pursuant to the Comprehensive

Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act

Notice is hereby given that on October 12, 1994, a proposed Consent

Decree in United States v. OK Tool Co., Inc., et al., Civil No. 94-518-

B, was lodged with the United States District Court for the District of

New Hampshire, resolving the defendants' liability under the

Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act

(``CERCLA''), 42 U.S.C. Sec. 9601 et seq., and the Federal Debt

Collection Procedures Act, 28 U.S.C. Sec. 3001 et seq., for costs

incurred and to be incurred in responding to releases or threatened

releases into the environment of hazardous substances at the Savage

Municipal Water Supply Well Superfund Site (the ``Savage Site'')

located in Milford, New Hampshire.

Under the terms of the Consent Decree, OK Tool Co., Inc., OK Tool

Holdings, Inc., Crafts Precision Industries, Inc., Corinthian

Properties, Inc., John C. Pappas, Jr., Williams & Hussey Machine Co.,

Inc., the Estate of Thurston V. Williams, Forrest Hussey, Roger T.

Williams, Alan L. Foster, and other former shareholders of the OK Tool

Co. will pay a collective total of approximately $3 million to the

United States and the State of New Hampshire (``the State'') for past

and future CERCLA response actions that have been and will be

undertaken by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (``EPA'') and

the State for the Savage Site. This settlement is based primarily on

the settling defendants' ability to pay.

The United States and the State have incurred and expect to incur

in the future a total of approximately $10 million for response actions

at the Savage Well site, primarily for future remedial action involving

extraction and treatment of contaminated groundwater at the ``OK Tool

Source Area'' of the Savage Well site. The remedial action for the

remainder of the site is being performed by other potentially

responsible parties pursuant to a consent decree entered in United

States and State of New Hampshire v. Conductron Corp. et al. (No. 94-

174, D.N.H., June 27, 1994).

The U.S. 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 of the Environment and Natural Resources Division,

Department of Justice, P.O. Box 7611, Ben Franklin Station, Washington,

D.C. 20044-7611, and should refer to United States v. OK Tool Co.,

Inc., et al. D.J. Ref. 90-11-3-970A.

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 also may be examined at the

Environmental Enforcement Section Document Center, 1120 G Street, N.W.,

4th Floor, Washington, D.C. 20005, (202) 624-0892. A copy of the

proposed Consent Decree (excluding Appendices) 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 $23.50 (25 cents per page reproduction cost) for the Consent Decree

and Appendices, made payable to Consent Decree Library.

Bruce S. Gelber,

Acting Chief, Environment and Natural Resources Division.

[FR Doc. 94-26295 Filed 10-21-94; 8:45 am]

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