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

In accordance with Departmental policy, 28 CFR Sec. 50.7, and 42

U.S.C. 9622, notice is hereby given that on February 18, 1997, a

proposed Consent Decree in United States v. Landfill & Resource

Recovery, Inc., Civil No. 97-078ML, was lodged with the United States

District Court for the District of Rhode Island. The proposed Consent

Decree concerns the response to the release and threatened release of

hazardous substances at the Landfill & Resource Recovery, Inc. Site

located in North Smithfield, Rhode Island, pursuant to the

Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act,

as amended. The settlers are owners or operators of the Site as well as

generators and transporters of hazardous substances disposed of at the

Site.

Under the terms of the Consent Decree, Avnet, Inc., Boston Edison

Company, CCL Custom Manufacturing, Inc., General Dynamics Corporation,

Olin Corporation, Polaroid Corporation, Stanley Bostich, Inc., The

Dexter Corporation, United Dominion Industries, Inc., Waste Management,

Inc., Landfill & Resource Recovery, Inc., Truk-Away of RI, Inc.,

Charles Wilson and David Wilson will complete the remedial action for

the Site. In addition, these settlers agree to pay the United States

$675,000 and the State of Rhode Island $200,000 for past costs incurred

at the Site, to pay oversight costs to be incurred by the United

States, to pay $200,000 to the Department of Interior (``DOI'') for

damages to natural resources under the joint trusteeship of DOI and the

State, to pay $400,000 in satisfaction of the United States' claims

under 42 U.S.C. 9606(b)(1), for violations of a unilateral

administrative order, and to implement a supplemental environmental

project in the amount of $525,000 to purchase wetlands or related

property or conservation easements within the Blackstone River Valley

National Heritage Corridor. The two other settlers, J. Scott Cannon and

J. Robert Cannon, have paid $60,000 to the United States to satisfy the

governments' claims for past and future response costs. The Cannons'

payment is based on the financial condition of the parties.

The Department of Justice will receive for a period of thirty days

from the date of this publication comments relating to the proposed

Consent Decree. Comments should be addressed to the Assistant Attorney

General of the Environment and Natural Resources Division, Department

of Justice, Ben Franklin Station, Washington, DC 20044, and should

refer to United States v. Landfill & Resource Recovery, Inc., D.J. Ref.

90-11-2-449B.

The proposed Consent Decree may be examined at the Region 1 Office

of the Environmental Protection Agency, One Congress Street, Boston,

Massachusetts and at the Environmental Enforcement Section Document

Center, 1120 G Street, NW., 4th Floor, Washington, DC 200052 (20) 624-

0892. A copy of the proposed Consent Decree may be obtained in person

or by mail from the Document Center. In requesting a copy, please refer

to the referenced case and enclose a check in the amount of $35.75 (25

cents per page reproduction cost, excluding all appendices) or $48.75

(25 cents per page reproduction cost, excluding appendices A, J and K)

made payable to Consent Decree Library.

Bruce S. Gelber,

Deputy Section Chief, Environmental Enforcement Section.

[FR Doc. 97-4834 Filed 2-26-97; 8:45 am]

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