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

In accordance with Departmental policy, 28 CFR 50.7, and 42 U.S.C.

9622(d)(2), notice is hereby given that a proposed consent decree in

United States v. GATX Corporation and General American Transportation

Corporation, Civil Action No. 94-312E, was lodged on November 15, 1994

with the United States District Court for the Western District of

Pennsylvania. The Consent Decree requires the defendants to excavate

and incinerate contaminated soils and sludges at the Saegertown

Industrial Area Site in Saegertown, Crawford County, Pennsylvania. The

Consent Decree also requires the defendants to pay a portion of the

United States past and future costs associated with the Site. Further,

the consent decree requires the defendants to reimburse the United

States for damages caused to the natural resources within the

trusteeship of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.

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. GATX Corporation and General American Transportation

Corporation, DOJ Ref. #90-11-2-870.

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

United States Attorney, 633 Post Office & Courthouse, 7th & Grant

Streets, Pittsburgh, PA15219; the Region III Office of the

Environmental Protection Agency, 841 Chestnut Building, Philadelphia,

Pennsylvania 19107; 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 $44.55 (25 cents per page reproduction

costs), payable to the Consent Decree Library.

Bruce S. Gelber,

Acting Chief, Environmental Enforcement Section, Environment and

Natural Resources Division.

[FR Doc. 94-30824 Filed 12-14-94; 8:45 am]

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