Notice of Lodging of Consent Decree Pursuant to the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Recovery Act (``CERCLA'')

DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

Notice of Lodging of Consent Decree Pursuant to the Comprehensive

Environmental Response, Compensation, and Recovery Act (``CERCLA'')

In accordance with Departmental policy, 28 CFR 50.7, and section

122(d)(2) of CERCLA, 42 U.S.C. 9622(d)(2), notice is hereby given that

a proposed Consent Decree in United States versus Cosmo Iacavazzi, et

al., Civil Action No. CV-89-0164(M.D. PA), was lodged on July 8, 1997

with the United States District Court for the Middle District of

Pennsylvania. This Consent Decree resolves a cost recovery action

brought by the United States against Celotex Corporation, pursuant to

Section 107(a), 42 U.S.C. 9607(a). The settling defendant arranged for

the disposal of hazardous substances at the Lackawanna Refuse Site

(``the Site'') located in Old Forge, Pennsylvania. The Consent Decree

provides that Celotex will pay $300,000 to the Hazardous Substance

Superfund for response costs incurred by the United States 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 versus Cosmo Iacavazzi, et al., and In re Celotex

Corporation, DOJ #90-5-1-1-3712.

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

United States Attorney, Suite 309, Federal Building, Washington and

Linden Street, Scranton, PA 18501; the Region III office of the

Environmental Protection Agency, 841 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

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

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the amount of $5.25 (25 cents per page reproduction costs), payable to

the Consent Decree Library.

Joel M. Gross,

Chief, Environmental Enforcement Section, Environment and Natural

Resources Division.

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