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 proposed consent decree in United

States v. Armstrong Rubber, Co., Civil No. 88-419, and United States v.

Atlantic Richfield Co., Civil No. 3-91-CV-248, consolidated by the

court under the heading B.F. Goodrich v. Murtha et al., Civil No. N-87-

52, was lodged on May 13, 1998, with the United States District Court

for the District of Connecticut. The decree resolves claims against

Armstrong Rubber Co., The Eastern Co., Gerald Metals, Inc. and Kerite

Co. in the above-referenced action under the Comprehensive

Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (``CERCLA''),

for contamination at the Laurel Park Landfill Superfund Site in the

Borough of Naugatuck, Connecticut (the ``Laurel Park Site'') and at the

Beacon Heights Superfund Site in Beacon Falls, Connecticut (the

``Beacon Heights Site''). In the proposed consent decree, the settling

defendants agree to reimburse the United States for $2.45 million in

past response costs incurred by the United States, and to waive and

dismiss their counterclaims against the United States. The Consent

Decree includes a covenant not to sue by the United States under

Sections 106, 107 and 113 of CERCLA.

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 B.F.

Goodrich v. Murtha et al. DOJ Ref. Numbers 90-11-2-703 and 90-11-3-

132B.

The proposed consent decree may be examined at the Office of the

United States Attorney, Connecticut Financial Center, 157 Church St.,

New Haven, CT 06510, the New England Region Office of the Environmental

Protection Agency, JFK Federal Building, Boston, MA 02203-2211; 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, 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 $8.25 for the Consent Decree (25 cents per page reproduction costs),

payable to the Consent Decree Library.

Joel M. Gross,

Chief, Environmental Enforcement Section, Environment and Natural

Resources Division.

[FR Doc. 98-14332 Filed 5-29-98; 8:45 am]

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