Notice of Lodging of Consent Decree Pursuant to the Comprehensive Environmental Response Compensation and Liability Act (``CERCLA'')

DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

Notice of Lodging of Consent Decree Pursuant to the Comprehensive

Environmental Response Compensation and Liability Act (``CERCLA'')

Notice is hereby given that a proposed consent decree in United

States v. Casings, et al., Civil Action No. 92-0284 (NPM), was lodged

on November 27, 1995, with the United States District Court for the

Northern District of New York. The Consent Decree requires defendants

to pay to the United States $120,000 within thirty days of entry of the

Consent Decree to reimburse Environmental Protection Agency response

costs incurred at the Catskill Tire Fire Superfund Site. Total Site

costs incurred by EPA were approximately $375,000.

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, D.C. 20530, and should refer to

United States v. Casings, et al., DOJ Ref. #90-11-3-872.

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

United States Attorney for the Northern District of New York, 100 South

Clinton Street, Syracuse, New York 13261; the Region II Office of the

Environmental Protection Agency, 290 Broadway, New York, New York,

10007-1866 (contact Assistant Regional Counsel Beverly Kolenberg); and

at the Consent Decree Library, 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 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 in the amount of $5.00 (25 cents per page reproduction costs) for

the Consent Decree, payable to the Consent Decree Library.

Joel Gross,

Chief, Environmental Enforcement Section, Environment and Natural

Resources Division.

[FR Doc. 95-30633 Filed 12-15-95; 8:45 am]

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