Lodging of Consent Decree Pursuant to the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act and the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act

DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

Lodging of Consent Decree Pursuant to the Comprehensive

Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act and the

Resource Conservation and Recovery Act

In accordance with Departmental policy, 28 CFR 50.7, notice is

hereby given that a proposed Consent Decree in United States v. CDMG

Realty Co, et al., Case No. 89 Civ. 4246 (NHP), was lodged on November

30, 1998, in the United States District Court for New Jersey.

The Consent Decree resolves the United States' claims, pursuant to

Sections 106 and 107 of the Comprehensive Environmental Response,

Compensation, and Liability Act (``CERCLA''), 42 U.S.C. 9606 and 9607,

for response costs incurred, or to be incurred by the United States at

the Sharkey Landfill Superfund Site (the ``Site''), located in the

Townships of Parsippany-Troy Hills and East Hanover, Morris County, New

Jersey. Under the Consent Decree, CDMG Realty Co., a limited

partnership that owns a portion of the Site, and the Estate of Helen

Ringlieb, representing a former owner of a portion of the Site, will

pay the United States $60,000, plus interest on this amount deposited

in escrow. Together with a previous settlement entered on December 2,

1994, with forty-four defendants who agreed to perform the remediation

of the Site, or who cashed-out as de minimis parties, the United States

will have recovered $44.360 of the $45.220 million of the total costs

associated with 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 for the Environment and Natural Resources Division,

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

United States v. CDMG Realty Co., et al., DOJ Ref. #90-11-2-470.

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

United States Attorney in Newark, New Jersey; the Region II Office of

the Environmental Protection Agency, 290 Broadway, New York, New York;

and at the Consent Decree Library, 1120 G Street, N.W., 3rd 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. In requesting a copy, please refer to the referenced case and

enclose a check made payable to the Consent Decree Library in the

amount of $7.25 (25 cents per page reproduction costs).

Joel M. Gross,

Section Chief, Environmental Enforcement Section, Environment and

Natural Resources Division, U.S. Department of Justice.

[FR Doc. 98-32857 Filed 12-9-98; 8:45 am]

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