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 and consistent with 28

C.F.R. 50.7 and Section 122 of CERCLA, 42 U.S.C. 9622, notice is hereby

given that on July 13, 1998, a proposed Consent Decree in United States

v. White Consolidated Industries, Inc. and the Town of Franklin,

Wisconsin., Civil Action No. 96-C-458, was lodged with the United

States District Court for the Eastern District of Wisconsin. This

consent decree represents a settlement of claims brought by the United

States, pursuant to the Comprehensive Environmental Response,

Compensation and Liability Act, 42 U.S.C. 9601 et seq., against White

Consolidated Industries and the Town of Franklin, Wisconsin for

reimbursement of response costs incurred at the Lemberger Flyash

Superfund Site (``Site'') located in Manitowac County, Wisconsin.

Under this settlement with the United States, White Consolidated

Industries, Inc. will pay $600,000 and the Town of Franklin, Wisconsin

will pay $120,000 in reimbursement of response costs incurred by the

United States 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 of the Environment and Natural Resources Division,

Department of Justice, Washington, D.C. 20530, and should refer to

United States v. White Consolidated Industries, Inc. and the Town of

Franklin, Wisconsin, D.J. Ref. 90-11-2-712C.

The proposed Consent Decree may be examined at the Office of the

United States Attorney, Eastern District of Wisconsin, 330 Federal

Building, 517 East Wisconsin Avenue, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, at the

Region 5 Office of the Environmental Protection Agency, 77 West Jackson

Street, Chicago, Illinois 60604-3590, 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 enclose

a check in the amount of $5.00 (.25 cents per page reproduction cost)

payable to the Consent Decree Library.

Joel M. Gross,

Chief, Environmental Enforcement Section, Environment and Natural

Resources Division.

[FR Doc. 98-20260 Filed 7-28-98; 8:45 am]

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