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, 28 C.F.R. Sec. 50.7, notice

is hereby given that a proposed Settlement Agreement in In re: The

Railway Reorganization Estate, Inc. F/K/A The Delaware and Hudson

Railway Co., Case No. 88-342, was lodged on October 27, 1997 in the

United States Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware.

The Settlement Agreement resolves the United States' claim,

pursuant to Section 107 of the Comprehensive Environmental Response,

Compensation, and Liability Act, 42 U.S.C. Sec. 9607, for response

costs incurred and to be incurred by EPA at the Quanta Resources

Syracuse Superfund Site (``the Site'') in Syracuse, New York. Under the

Settlement Agreement, which remains subject to Bankruptcy Court

approval, the United States will receive $15,000 in reimbursement of

response costs incurred and to be incurred by EPA 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 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: The Railway Reorganization Estate, Inc., F/K/A The

Delaware and Hudson Railway Co., DOJ Ref. #90-11-3-848E.

The proposed Settlement Agreement may be examined at the Office of

the United States Attorney in Wilmington, Delaware, the Region II

Office of the Environmental Protection Agency, 290 Broadway, New York,

New York; 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. In requesting a copy please refer to the referenced

case and enclose a check made payable to the Consent Decree Library in

the amount of $2.25 (25 cents per page reproduction costs).

Bruce S. Gelber,

Deputy Section Chief, Environmental Enforcement Section, Environmental

and Natural Resources Division, U.S. Department of Justice.

[FR Doc. 97-30541 Filed 11-19-97; 8:45 am]

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