Lodging of Consent Decree Pursuant to the Comprehensive Environmental Response Compensation and Liability Act and the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act

DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

Lodging of Consent Decree Pursuant to the Comprehensive

Environmental Response Compensation and Liability Act and the Resource

Conservation and Recovery Act

In accordance with Department policy, 28 CFR 50.7, and with section

122(d)(2) of the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation,

and Liability Act (CERCLA), 42 U.S.C. 9622(d)(2), notice is hereby

given that on January 20, 1994 the United States filed a complaint and

lodged with the United States District Court for the District of New

Jersey a proposed consent decree in United States v. Thiokol

Corporation, Civil Action No. 94-320. The proposed consent decree

involves the cleanup and reimbursement of response costs in connection

with the Rockaway Borough (NJ) Well Field Superfund Site in Rockaway

Borough, Morris County, New Jersey. This settlement is between the

United States and Thiokol Corporation.

The agreement requires Thiokol Corporation to undertake certain

remedial work relating to contaminated groundwater at the Site, as set

forth in EPA's September 1991 Record of Decision for the Site. The

settlement requires Thiokol Corporation to pay $800,000 of EPA's past

response costs and all future response costs incurred by the United

States in connection with the performance of this remedial work.

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. Thiokol Corporation, DOJ Ref. #90-11-3-923.

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

United States Attorney, 970 Broad Street, room 502, Newark, New Jersey

07102; the Region II Office of the Environmental Protection Agency, 26

Federal Plaza, New York NY 10278; and 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 $121.25 (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. 94-3158 Filed 2-10-94; 8:45 am]

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