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 U.S.C. Sec. 50.7, notice

is hereby given that a proposed Settlement Agreement in In Re Arrow

Transportation Co. of Delaware, Inc., Case No. 397-34556-psh11, was

lodged on October 5, 1998, in the United States Bankruptcy Court for

the District of Oregon. The Consent Decree represents a settlement of

claims of the United States against Arrow Transportation Co. of

Delaware, Inc. (``Arrow'') pursuant to Section 107 of the Comprehensive

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

42 U.S.C. Sec. 9607, for reimbursement of response costs in connection

with the Chemical Handling Corporation Site located in Broomfield,

Colorado, and the Thea Foss Waterway Problem Areas of the Commencement

Bay Nearshore/Tideflats Superfund Site, located in Tacoma, Washington.

Under this settlement with the United States, Arrow will pay $86,500 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 Settlement Agreement. Comments should be addressed to the

Section Chief, Environmental Enforcement Section, Environment and

Natural Resources Division, Post Office Box 7611, Washington, DC 20044-

7611, and should refer to In Re Arrow Transportation Co. of Delaware,

Inc., D.J. Ref. No. 90-11-2-1323.

The proposed Settlement Agreement may be examined at the office of

the United States Attorney, District of Oregon, 1000 S.W. Third Ave.,

Suite 600, Portland, Oregon, 97204; the Region 8 Office of the

Environmental Protection Agency, 999 18th St., Suite 500, and the

Region 10 office of the Environmental Protection Agency, 1200 Sixth

Avenue, Seattle, Washington 98101, and at the Consent Decree Library,

1120 G Street, NW., 3rd Floor, Washington, DC 20005, (202) 624-0892. In

requesting a copy of the Settlement Agreement, please enclose a check

payable to the Consent Decree Library in the amount of $2.50 (25 cents

per page reproduction cost) for a copy of the Settlement Agreement.

Joel M. Gross,

Chief, Environmental Enforcement Section, Environment and Natural

Resources Division.

[FR Doc. 98-28262 Filed 10-20-98; 8:45 am]

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