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 a proposed consent decree in United

States v. Coaters, Inc. and Fibre Leather Manufacturing Corporation,

Civil Action No. 3:96CV01945(JBA), was lodged on September 20, 1996,

with the United Stated District Court for the District of Connecticut.

The Proposed decree resolves the United States' claims under CERCLA

against defendants Coaters, Inc. and Fibre leather Manufacturing

Corporation with respect to the Solvent Recovery Service Superfund

Site, in Southington, Connecticut. The Defendants are alleged

generators that arranged for the treatment or disposal of hazardous

substances at the Site. Under the terms of the proposed decree, the

Coaters, Inc. will pay $115,000 and Fibre Leather Manufacturing

Corporation will pay $30,000 in reimbursement of past and future

response costs incurred and to be incurred at 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 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. Coaters, Inc. and Fibre Leather Manufacturing

Corporation, DOJ Ref. #90-7-1-23H.

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

United

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States Attorney, 157 Church Street, 23rd Floor, New Haven, Connecticut

06510; the Region I Office of the Environmental Protection Agency,

Region I Records Center, 90 Canal Street, First Floor, Boston, MA

02203; and at the Consent Decree Library, 1120 G Street, N.W., Fourth

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 $6.00 (25 cents per page reproduction costs),

payable to the Consent Decree Library.

Walker Smith,

Deputy Section Chief, Environmental Enforcement Section, Environment

and Natural Resources Division.

[FR Doc. 96-25271 Filed 10-2-96; 8:45 am]

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