Notice of Lodging of Stipulation of Settlement Pursuant to the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act

DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

Notice of Lodging of Stipulation of Settlement 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 November 24, 1995, a proposed Stipulation of

Settlement in In re St. Johnsbury Trucking Company, Inc., Civil Action

No. 93-43136, was lodged with the United States Bankruptcy Court for

the Southern District of New York. The proposed Stipulation of

Settlement concerns the response to the existence of hazardous

substances at the Pine Street Canal Site located in Burlington, Vermont

pursuant to the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and

Liability Act, as amended.

Under the terms of the Stipulation of Settlement, the United States

Environmental Protection Agency will be reimbursed $35,000 for

administrative expenses incurred in connection with property formerly

owned by St. Johnsbury. St. Johnsbury also agrees to an allowed

unsecured claim in the amount of $3,000,000 for costs incurred and to

be incurred by the United States in connection with response actions at

the Site and in the amount of $150,000 for natural resource damages for

resources under the trusteeship of the Department of Interior.

The Department of Justice will receive for a period of thirty (30)

days from the date of this publication comments relating to the

proposed Stipulation of Settlement. Comments should be addressed to the

Assistant Attorney General of the Environment and Natural Resources

Division, Department of Justice, Ben Franklin Station, Washington, D.C.

20044, and should refer to In re St. Johnsbury Trucking Company, Inc.,

D.J. Ref. 90-11-2-978.

The proposed Stipulation may be examined at the Region 1 Office of

the Environmental Protection Agency, One Congress Street, Boston,

Massachusetts. Copies of the Consent Decree 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 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 $4.25 (25 cents per page

reproduction cost) made payable to Consent Decree Library.

Joel M. Gross,

Acting Chief, Environmental Enforcement Section, Environment and

Natural Resources Division.

[FR Doc. 95-30628 Filed 12-15-95; 8:45 am]

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