Notice of Extension of Comment Period for Consent Order Pursuant to the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act

DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

Notice of Extension of Comment Period for Consent Order Pursuant

to the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability

Act

On December 5, 1996, at 61 FR 64532, the Department of Justice

published a notice that a proposed consent order in United States v.

BASF Corporation, et al., Civil Action No. 96-CV-75279-DT, had been

lodged with the United States District Court for the Eastern District

of Michigan on November 18, 1996. The proposed consent order resolves

certain claims alleged against 35 parties under the Comprehensive

Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act, 42 U.S.C. 9601

et seq., for the United States' response costs at the Metamora Landfill

Site in Lapeer County, Michigan.

The Department of Justice has been requested to extend the thirty

day comment period to permit interested parties additional time to

review the consent decree and prepare comments. The Department of

Justice will extend the comment period to January 21, 1997. Persons

wishing to submit comments should follow the procedures set out in the

Notice of Lodging on December 5, 1996, at 61 FR 64532.

Joel Gross,

Chief, Environmental Enforcement Section Environment and Natural

Resources Division.

[FR Doc. 97-359 Filed 1-7-97; 8:45 am]

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