Notice of Lodging of Settlement Agreement Pursuant to the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act

DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

Notice of Lodging of Settlement Agreement Pursuant to the

Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act

In accordance with Departmental policy, notice is hereby given that

a proposed Consent Decree between the United States and Stratton

Georgoulis was lodged on January 6, 1997, with the United States

District Court for the Northern District of Iowa. The Consent Decree

resolves United States v. TIC Investment Corporation, et al, No. 91-

2065 (N.D. Iowa), a civil action filed by the United States against

Stratton Georgoulis, TIC Investment Corporation and TIC United

Corporation under Sections 104(e) and 107 of the Comprehensive

Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act of 1980, as

amended (``CERCLA''), 42 U.S.C. 9604(e) & 9607. The United States

brought this action to recover $576,337.18 in unreimbursed response

costs at the White Farm Equipment Dump Site (``the Site''), following

the entry of a Consent Decree with Allied Products Corporation

(``Allied'') under which Allied voluntarily performed EPA's selected

remedial action for the Site and reimbursed the United States for its

costs of overseeing Allied's

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completion of the remedy. The United States also sought a penalty from

the defendants under Section 104(e) of CERCLA, 42 U.S.C. 9604(e), based

on the defendants' alleged unreasonable failure to comply with written

information requests served upon them by EPA.

Under the Consent Decree, Georgoulis will reimburse the United

States for $530,000 of its unreimbursed costs at the Site, and pay a

$100,000 civil penalty to resolve the United States' claims for the

defendants' alleged violations of Section 104(e) of CERCLA.

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. TIC Investment Corporation, et al., DOJ Ref. #90-11-2-

665a.

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

United States Attorney, Suite 400, Hach Building, 401 First Street,

S.E., Cedar Rapids, Iowa 52401; the Region 7 Office of the

Environmental Protection Agency, 726 Minnesota Avenue, Kansas City,

Kansas 98105; 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 $4.25 (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. 97-1592 Filed 1-22-97; 8:45 am]

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