Notice of Lodging of Partial Consent Decree Pursuant to the Safe Drinking Water Act

DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

Notice of Lodging of Partial Consent Decree Pursuant to the Safe

Drinking Water Act

In accordance with Departmental policy, 28 CFR 50.7, notice is

hereby given that a proposed Partial Consent Decree in United States v.

Perry Phillips, et al., Civil Action No. 95-5578 (E.D. Pa.), was lodged

on September 27, 1996 with the United States District Court for the

Eastern District of Pennsylvania. The proposed Partial Consent Decree

resolves injunctive relief claims of the United States and the

Commonwealth of Pennsylvania under the Safe Drinking Water Act

(``Act'') in a Complaint filed September 6, 1995 against Perry Phillips

and Jeanne Phillips doing business as the Perry Phillips Mobile Home

Park, which owns and operates a water system for approximately sixty

residents of the Perry Phillips Mobile Home Park near Coatesville,

Pennsylvania. The Complaint alleged violations of the maximum

contaminant levels set forth in regulations implementing the Act for

several volatile organic compounds detected in the water system for the

mobile home park.

The proposed Partial Consent Decree requires Perry and Jeanne

Phillips to construct a groundwater remediation system, to sample for

volatile organic compounds on a monthly basis, and to notify EPA, the

Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection (``PADEP'') and the

residents of the park of any violations of the Act or implementing

regulations. The Partial Consent Decree reserves the rights of the

United States and PADEP to seek a civil penalty at a later time.

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

days from the date of this publication, comments relating to the

proposed Partial Consent Decree. Comments 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. Perry Phillips, et al., DOJ Ref. 90-5-1-1-

4151.

The proposed Partial Consent Decree may be examined at the Office

of the United States Attorney, Eastern District of Pennsylvania, 615

Chestnut Street, Suite 1250, Philadelphia, PA 19106; the Region III

Office of the Environmental Protection Agency, 941 Chestnut Street,

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 Partial 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 $9.25 (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. 96-26616 Filed 10-16-96; 8:45 am]

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