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, notice is

hereby given that on April 7, 1994, a proposed Consent Decree in United

States and State of New Hampshire versus Conductron Corporation et al.,

Civil No. 94-174-L, was lodged with the United States District Court

for the District of New Hampshire resolving these matters. The proposed

Consent Decree concerns response actions for releases into the

environment of hazardous substances, and restoration of natural

resources, at the Savage Municipal Water Supply Well Superfund Site

(the ``Savage Site'') located in Milford, New Hampshire, pursuant to

the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability

Act (``CERCLA''), 42 U.S.C. 9601 et seq.

Under the terms of the Consent Decree, Conductron Corporation d/b/a

Hendrix & Cable and Hendrix Real Estate Trust (``Hendrix''), and

Hitchiner Manufacturing Co., Inc. (``Hitchiner'') will undertake

response actions for an area of the Savage Site, including extraction

and treatment of contaminated groundwater, long-term monitoring, and

institutional controls to protect human health, estimated to cost

approximately $15 million, and will reimburse the United States and the

State of New Hampshire for a total of approximately $1 million of their

past costs related to the Savage Site and up to approximately $3

million in future oversight costs.

The Consent Decree also requires Hendrix and Hitchiner to undertake

measures to protect and restore natural resources, including fish, at

the Savage Site, involving testing and possible excavation of sediments

from the process waste drainage stream known as the ``Hitchiner-Hendrix

Discharge Stream'' that discharges into the Souhegan River. The

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (``NOAA''), the U.S.

Department of the Interior and the State of New Hampshire, as trustees

of natural resources under CERCLA, have agreed to give the settling

defendants a covenant not to sue for natural resources damage in

consideration of this work. The settling defendants will also pay the

trustees' future costs.

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 Environmental 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. Conductron

Corporation, D.J. Ref. 90-11-3-970.

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, NW.,

4th Floor, Washington, DC 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 $132.50 (25

cents per page reproduction cost) for the Consent Decree and

Appendices, made payable to Consent Decree Library.

John C. Cruden,

Chief, Environment Enforcement Section, Environment and Natural

Resources Division.

[FR Doc. 94-9528 Filed 4-19-94; 8:45 am]

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