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 two proposed consent decrees in United

States v. American Recovery Company, et al., Civil Action No. 95-1590,

were lodged on October 6, 1995 with the United States District Court

for the Western District of Pennsylvania. The first Consent Decree

requires five defendants (Conoco, Inc., Conoco Coal Development

Company, Consolidation Coal Company, Durasteel Abrasive Company, and

Wheeling-Pittsburgh Steel Corporation) to pay $19,500 to reimburse a

portion of the United States' past costs associated with the

investigation and clean up of the Municipal & Industrial Disposal

Company Superfund Site (``Site''), located in Elizabeth Township,

Pennsylvania. The second Consent Decree requires two defendants

(Bethlehem Steel Corporation and Fairchild Industries, Inc.) to pay

$40,000 to reimburse a portion of the United States' past costs

associated with the investigation and clean up of the Site.

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 decrees. Comments should be addressed to the Assistant

Attorney General for the Environment and Natural Resources Division,

Department of Justice, Washington, D.C. 20530, and should refer to

United States v. American Recovery Company, et al., DOJ Ref. #90-11-2-

949.

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

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

Streets, Pittsburgh, PA 15219; the Region III Office of the

Environmental Protection Agency, 841 Chestnut Building, Philadelphia,

Pennsylvania 19107; and at the Consent Decree Library, 1120 G Street,

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

proposed consent decree may be obtained in person or by mail from the

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Consent Decree Library, 1120 G Street, N.W., 4th Floor, Washington,

D.C. 20005. In requesting a copy please refer to the referenced case

and enclose a check. For the first Consent Decree, that check should be

in the amount of $5.75 (25 cents per page reproduction costs), payable

to the Consent Decree Library. For the second Consent Decree, that

check should be in the amount of $5.50 (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. 95-26253 Filed 10-23-95; 8:45 am]

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