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, and 42 U.S.C.

Sec. 9622(d)(2), notice is hereby given that a proposed consent decree

in United States v. Pneumo Abex Corporation, et al., Civil Action No.

2:96-CV-27, was lodged on January 4, 1996 with the United States

District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia. The decree

requires Pneumo Abex, with assistance from the City of Portsmouth,

Virginia and the Portsmouth Redevelopment and Housing Authority, to

perform operable unit one of the cleanup of the Abex Superfund site

located in Portsmouth. The decree also requires Abex to reimburse past

costs of response incurred by the United States.

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. Pursuant to 42 U.S.C. Sec. 6973(d), the

Department will also hold a public meeting concerning the settlement

near the site, if such a meeting is requested.

Comments, and any request for a public meeting, 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. Pneumo Abex Corporation, et al., DOJ

Ref. # 90-11-3-255A.

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

United States Attorney, U.S. Court House, 600 Granby Street, Norfolk,

VA 23510; the Region III Office of the Environmental Protection Agency,

841 Chestnut Building, Philadelphia, PA 19107; and at 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 $46.25 (25

cents per page reproduction costs), payable to the Consent Decree

Library.

Joel M. Gross,

Chief, Environmental Enforcement Section, Environmental and Natural

Resources Division.

[FR Doc. 96-1093 Filed 1-24-96; 8:45 am]

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