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

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## Record

- **Collection:** Federal Register
- **Document type:** Notice
- **Published:** November 20, 1997
- **Citation:** 62 FR 62074

## Text

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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