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 50.7, notice is

hereby given that a proposed Consent Decree in Cordova Chemical Company

of Michigan, et al., CA No. G89-0961-CA and CPC International, Inc. v.

Aeroject-General Corporation, et.al. CA No. G89-10503-CA (W.D.

Michigan) was lodged on July 20, 1999, with the United States District

Court for the Western District of Michigan. With regard to the

Defendants, Aerojet-General Corporation, Cordova Chemical Company of

California and Cordova Chemcial Company of Michigan, (``Settling

Defendants''), the Consent Decree resolves a claim filed by the United

States on behalf of the United States Environmental Protection Agency

(``EPA'') purusuant to the Comprehensive Environmental Response,

Compensation and Liability Act, as amended 42 U.S.C. 9601, et seq.

The United States entered into the Consent Decree in connection

with the Ott/Story/ Cordova Site located in Muskegon, Michigan. The

Consent Decree provides that the Settling Defendants will be

responsible for implementing injunctive relief related to contaminated

soil 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 Order. Comments should be addressed to the

Assistant Attorney General for the Environment and Natural Resources

Division, Department of Justice, Washington, DC 20530, and should refer

to Cordova Chemical Company of Michigan, et al., and CPC International,

Inc. v. Aerojet-General Corporation, et al., DOJ Ref. #90-11-2-481.

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

United States Attorney, 330 Ionia Avenue, NW., Suite 301, Grand Rapids,

Michigan 49503; the Region 57 office of the Environmental Protection

Agency, 77 West Jackson Street, Chicago, Ill 60604; and at the Consent

Decree Library, 1120 G Street, NW., 3rd Floor, Washington, DC 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,

NW., 3rd Floor, Washington, DC 20005. In requesting a copy refer to the

referenced case and enclose a check in the amount of $49.50 (25 cents

per page reproduction costs), payable to the Consent Decree Library.

Joel M. Gross,

Chief, Environmental Enforcement Section.

[FR Doc. 99-20159 Filed 8-4-99; 8:45 am]

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