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

Notice is hereby given that a consent decree in United States v.

Neville Land Company, et al., Civil Action No. 97-1683 (W.D. Pa.) was

lodged on September 17, 1997.

The proposed decree resolves the claims of the United States under

Sections 106 and 107 of the Comprehensive Environmental Response,

Compensation and Liability Act, as amended (``CERCLA''), 42 U.S.C.

Secs. 9606 and 9607, for past response costs and certain responses

actions at the Ohio River Park Superfund Site in Allegheny County,

Pennsylvania. The decree obligates the Settling Defendants to reimburse

$495,943.66 of the United States' past response costs and to perform

the remedial action the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has

selected for the first operable unit 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 v. Neville Land Company, et al., DOJ Ref. # 90-11-3-1723.

The proposed consent decree may be examined at the United States

Department of Justice, Environment and Natural Resources Division,

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 $26.75 (25 cents per page reproduction costs), payable to the

Consent Decree Library. Attachments to the proposed consent decree can

be obtained for additional amount.

Joel M. Gross,

Chief, Environmental Enforcement Section, Environment and Natural

Resources Division.

[FR Doc. 97-31197 Filed 11-26-97; 8:45 am]

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