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

Pursuant to Section 122(d)(2) of the Comprehensive Environmental

Response, Compensation and Liability Act (``CERCLA''), 42 U.S.C.

9622(d)(2), and Departmental policy, 28 C.F.R. Sec. 50.7, notice is

hereby given that a proposed consent decree in United States v. Allied

Signal, Inc., et al., Civil Action No. 95-617P, was lodged on November

28, 1995 with the United States District Court for the District of

Rhode Island. Additional parties were allowed to join the Consent

Decree, and thirty-six additional defendants join the Decree in a

filing with the court on May 7, 1996. Defendants Allied Signal, Inc.;

American Cyanamid Company; Ashland Chemical Company; Elf Atochem North

America, Inc. (M & T Chemical, Inc.); GAF Corporation; General Electric

Company; Hydron Laboratories Inc.; Mallinckrodt & Baker, Inc. (J.T.

Baker, Inc.); Monsanto Company; Morton International, Inc., Allied

Signal, Inc.; American Cyanamid Company; Ashland Chemical Company; Elf

Atochem North America, Inc.; GAF Corporation; General Electric Company;

Hydron Laboratories, Inc.; Mallinckrodt Baker, Inc.; Monsanto Company;

Morton International, Inc.; Air Products and Chemical, Inc.; American

Standard, Inc.; Armstrong World Industries, Inc.; Bayer Corporation

(fka Miles Inc.); Ber Mar Manufacturing Corp.; Borden, Inc.; Branson

Ultrasonics Corp.; Burndy Corporation (currently, Framatone Connectors

USA Inc.); Ciba-Geigy Corporation; Connecticut Hard Rubber Co./Chr

Industries, Inc.; Eaton Corporation; Ganes Chemicals Inc.; Grumman

Corp. & Grumman Aerospace Company, Inc.; Hoechst Celanese Corporation;

King Industries, Inc.; Kraft Foods, Inc. (On behalf of General Foods

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USA); Kraft Foods, Inc. (On behalf of Ware Chemical); the Mennen

Company, Inc.; Merck & Co., Inc.; Mine Safety Appliances Company;

Minnesota Mining & Manufacturing Company; NL Industries, Inc.; National

Starch and Chemical Company; Occidental Chemical Corporation (as

successor to Diamond Shamrock Chemicals Inc.); The Perkin-Elmer

Corporation; Pfizer Inc; Pitney Bowes, Inc.; Reichold Chemicals, Inc.;

Revlon Consumer Products Corporation; Schenectady International, Inc.;

E.R. Squibb & Sons, Inc.; Textron, Inc. (Patterson-Sargent); Union

Carbide Corporation; The Upjohn Company; R.T. Vanderbilt Company, Inc.;

and Wyeth Laboratories, Inc., are all generators of wastes containing

hazardous substances which were disposed of at the Picillo Farm

Superfund Site in Coventry, Rhode Island.

Under the terms of the proposed decree, defendants will perform

and/or pay for certain remedial design/remedial action work involving

soil source control and management of groundwater mitigation. The work

to be undertaken and/or paid for by defendants is valued by the United

States Environmental Protection Agency at $15.9 million. The proposed

decree includes a covenant not to sue by the United States under

Sections 106 and 107 of CERCLA, 42 U.S.C. Secs. 9601 et seq., and under

Section 7003 of the Resources Conservation and Recovery Act (``RCRA''),

42 U.S.C. 6973.

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. Allied Signal, Inc., et al., D.J. reference #90-11-2-

985. Commenters may request an opportunity for a public meeting in the

affected area, in accordance with Section 7003(d) of RCRA.

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

United States Attorney for the District of Rhode Island, Westminster

Square Building, 10 Dorrance Street, 10th Floor, Providence, Rhode

Island; the Region I Office of the Environmental Protection Agency, 290

Canal Street, Boston, Massachusetts; 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. In requesting a copy, please enclose a check in the

amount of $2.75 (25 cents per page reproduction costs), payable to the

Consent Decree Library.

Joel M. Gross,

Chief, Environmental Enforcement Section, Environment and Natural

Resources Division.

[FR Doc. 96-13623 Filed 5-30-96; 8:45 am]

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