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

Section 122 of CERCLA, 42 U.S.C. 9622, notice is hereby given that on

July 31, 1998, a proposed Consent Decree in United States v. Crestwood

Development et al., Civ. Action No. 98-73313 was lodged with the United

States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan. This

Consent Decree represents a settlement of claims of the United States

against: (1) Crestwood Development Company, (2) Ford Motor Company; (3)

Indian Head Industries, Inc. (f.k.a Detroit Gasket & Manufacturing

Company); (4) John Denski; (5) Minnesota Mining & Manufacturing

Company; (6) Purolator Products Company; (7) Stanley Denski; (8) TBG

Services, Inc.; (9) TPI Petroleum, Inc. (f.k.a. J. Austin Oil); (10)

Woolf Aircraft Products; (11) Charter Township of Canton; (12) City of

Allen Park; (13) City of Garden City; (14) City of Inkster; (15) City

of Livonia; (16) City of Plymouth; (17) City of Romulus; (18) City of

Wayne; (19) City of Westland; and (20) County of Wayne (collectively

``Settling Defendants''), for reimbursement of response costs in

connection with the Nankin Township Superfund Site (``Site'') pursuant

to the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability

Act, 42 U.S.C. 9601 et seq.

Under this settlement with the United States, Settling Defendants,

will pay $1,573,551.76, plus interest, in reimbursement of response

costs incurred by the United States at the Site. In addition,

Performing Settling Defendants (Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing

Company, the County of Wayne and Crestwood Development) will submit a

Remedial Action Plan (``RAP'') to the Michigan Department of

Environmental Quality (``MDEQ'') by February 1, 1999. Upon approval of

the RAP by MDEQ, the Performing Settling Defendants will implement the

work outlined in the RAP by the dates specified in the RAP.

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 Environmental and Natural Resources Division,

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

United States v. Crestwood Development, et al., D.J. Ref. 90-11-2-1291.

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

United States Attorney, Eastern District of Michigan, Southern

Division, 211 West Fort Street, Suite 2300, Detroit, MI 48226, 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 of the Consent

Decree, please enclose a check payable to the Consent Decree Library in

the amount of $9 (25 cents per page reproduction cost) for a copy of

the Consent Decree.

Joel Gross,

Chief, Environmental Enforcement Section, Environment and Natural

Resources Division.

[FR Doc. 98-24447 Filed 9-10-98; 8:45 am]

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