Notice of Consent Judgments Pursuant to the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act

DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

Notice of Consent Judgments Pursuant to the Comprehensive

Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act

In accordance with Departmental Policy, 28 CFR Sec. 50.7, 38 FR

19029, and 42 U.S.C. Sec. 9622(d), notice is hereby given that a

proposed Consent Decree in United States v. American Locker Group, Inc.

et al., Civ. No. 92-CV-0700 (CGC), was lodged in the United States

District Court for the Northern District of New York on November 5,

1996. The proposed Consent Decree resolves the United States' claims

against American Locker Group, Incorporated, Bristol-Myers Squibb

Company, Inc., General Electric Company, Inc., International Business

Machines Corporation, and Pass & Seymour Corp. under Section 107(a) of

the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability

Act (``CERCLA''), as amended, 42 U.S.C. Sec. 9607(a), for past response

costs incurred in connection with response actions at the Solvent

Savers Superfund Site in Lincklaen, New York.

Under the terms of the Consent Decree, the Settling Defendants will

pay $1,665,685.80 to the Superfund in reimbursement of past response

costs. Also, the United States, on behalf of the U.S. Air Force, will

pay $125,374.20 to the Superfund in reimbursement of past response

costs. In return, the United States covenants not to sue Settling

Defendants for past response costs.

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

days from the date of this publication, written 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. American Locker Group, Inc. et al., Civ. No.

92-CV-0700 (CGC), DOJ, #90-11-3-704.

The proposed Consent Decree may be examined at the Office of the

United States Attorney, Northern District of New York, James Foley U.S.

Courthouse, 445 Broadway, Room 231, Albany, New York 12207; at the

Region II Office of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, 290

Broadway, New York, New York 10278; and at the Consent Decree Library,

1120 G Street, N.W., 4th Floor, Washington, D.C. 20005, (202) 624-0892.

Copies of the 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 enclose a check in the amount

of $6.00 (25 cents per page reproduction costs) payable to the Consent

Decree Library.

Joel M. Gross,

Environmental Enforcement Section, Environment and Natural Resources

Division.

[FR Doc. 96-29843 Filed 11-21-96; 8:45 am]

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