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

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## Record

- **Collection:** Federal Register
- **Document type:** Notice
- **Published:** January 8, 1997
- **Citation:** 62 FR 1130

## Text

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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