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

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

hereby given that a proposed consent decree in United States v.

Keystone Sanitation Company, et al., Civil Action No. 1:CV:-93-1482

(M.D. Pa.) was lodged on October 22, 1997, with the United States Court

for the Middle District of Pennsylvania.

The consent decree resolves the liability of approximately 376

third and fourth party defendants at the Keystone Sanitation Superfund

Site, located near Hanover, Pennsylvania. The decree provides that the

Settling Defendants listed in Appendix B to the consent decree and

several federal agencies will pay a total of $4.25 million to the

United States as follows: $80,000 of that sum will be paid to the

Department of the Interior to resolve claims for natural resource

damages; $1.25 million will be paid to the Superfund to reimburse the

United States for past response costs incurred at the Site; and the

balance of $2,920,000 will be paid into a Special Account to be used

either for future remedial work at the Site or, if not so used, to be

paid back into the Superfund.

The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania is also a party to the decree. It

is a third party to the litigation. It grants the settling parties a

covenant not to sue under section 107(a) of CERCLA, 42 U.S.C.

Sec. 9607(a), its state law counterpart, and other state statutes. In

exchange, the Settling Defendants and Settling Federal Agencies agree

to pay to the United States the share allocated to the state agencies

of $66,775.

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, DC 20530, and should refer to United

States v. Keystone Sanitation Company, et al., DOJ Ref. #90-11-2-656A.

The proposed consent decree may be examined at the office of the

United

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States Attorney, Middle District of Pennsylvania, 228 Walnut Street,

Harrisburg, PA 17108; 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 the amount

of $50.00, payable to the Consent Decree Library.

Bruce S. Gelber,

Deputy Chief, Environmental Enforcement Section, Environment and

Natural Resources Division.

[FR Doc. 97-29532 Filed 11-7-97; 8:45 am]

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