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 Settlement Agreement in In

Re Diversified Metals Corporation, Bankruptcy No. 95-42881-293, was

lodged on October 3, 1996 with the United States Bankruptcy Court for

the Eastern District of Missouri. The Settlement Agreement allows the

United States a claim of $40,000 against the estate of Diversified

Metals Corporation and requires payment on that claim be made to

reimburse a portion of the United States' past costs associated with

the investigation and clean up of the Jack's Creek/Sitkin Smelting

Superfund Site (``Site''), located in Mifflin County, Pennsylvania.

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

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

proposed Settlement Agreement. 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 In Re Diversified Metals Corporation, DOJ Ref. #90-11-2-911G.

The proposed Settlement Agreement may be examined at the office of

the United States Attorney, 1114 Market Street, Room 401, St. Louis, MO

63101; the Region III Office of the Environmental Protection Agency,

841 Chestnut Building, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19107; 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 $2.00 (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. 96-26800 Filed 10-17-96; 8:45 am]

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