Notice of Lodging of Consent Decree Pursuant to the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act and Resource Conservation and Recovery Act; Lake Geneva Associates, et al.

DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

Notice of Lodging of Consent Decree Pursuant to the Comprehensive

Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act and Resource

Conservation and Recovery Act; Lake Geneva Associates, et al.

In accordance with Departmental policy, 28 C.F.R. Sec. 50.7, notice

is hereby given that on September 30, 1998 a proposed Consent Decree in

United States v. Lake Geneva Associates, et al., Civil Action No. 98-C-

0972, was lodged with the United States District Court for the Eastern

District of Wisconsin.

The Consent Decree resolves certain claims of the United States

against Lake Geneva Associates, Playboy Enterprises, and Marcus Geneva,

Inc., under Sections 107(a) and 113(g)(2) of CERCLA, 42 U.S.C. 9607(a)

and 9613(g)(2), at the former Southern Lakes Trap Skeet Club site

(``the Site'') near Lake Geneva in Walworth County, Wisconsin. The

defendants have been named as either a former owner during the disposal

of hazardous substances at, or the current owner of, the Site.

The settlement requires the settling defendants to make payment of

$925,000 for past response costs incurred by the U.S. Environmental

Protection Agency in connection with the Site and of $75,000 on behalf

of the Department of the Interior and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife

Service for natural resource damages. The Consent Decree includes a

covenant not to sue by the United States under Sections 106 and 107(a)

of CERCLA and Section 7003 of the Resource Conservation and Recovery

Act (``RCRA''), 42 U.S.C. 6973, for: (1) Response costs and actions

associated with the EPA removal action at the Site; (2) natural

resource damages resulting from shooting activities at or from the

Site; and, (3) any and all claims by the United States for violations

of the requirements of an EPA administrative order, Docket No. V-W-94-

C.

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,

United

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States Department of Justice, P.O. Box 7611, Ben Franklin Station,

Washington, D.C. 20044-7611, and should refer to United States v. Lake

Geneva Associates, et al., Civil Action No. 98-C-0972, and the

Department of Justice Reference No. 90-11-3-1063. Commenters may

request an opportunity for a public hearing in the affected area, in

accordance with Section 7003(d) of RCRA, 42 U.S.C. 6973(d).

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

United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Wisconsin, 517 E.

Wisconsin Ave., Room 530, Milwaukee, Wisconsin 53202; the Region 5

Office of the United States Environmental Protection Agency, 77 West

Jackson Boulevard, Chicago, Illinois 60604-3590; and at the Consent

Decree Library, 1120 G Street, N.W., 3rd Floor, Washington, D.C. 20005,

telephone no. (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., 3rd Floor, Washington, D.C. 20005. In requesting a

copy, please refer to DJ #90-11-3-1063, and enclose a check in the

amount of $30.75 (25 cents per page for reproduction costs), payable to

the Consent Decree Library.

Joel M. Gross,

Chief, Environmental Enforcement Section, Environment and Natural

Resources Division.

[FR Doc. 98-27689 Filed 10-14-98; 8:45 am]

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