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. 50.7, and in

accordance with Section 122(d)(2) of CERCLA, 42 U.S.C. 9622(d)(2),

notice is hereby given that a proposed Consent Decree in United States

v. Conklin Company, Inc., et al. Civil Action No. 97-1372, was Lodged

on July, 30, 1999, with the United States District Court for the

Eastern District of Louisiana.

The Consent Decree settles an action brought under Section 107 of

the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability

Act (``CERCLA''), 42 U.S.C. Sec. 9607. The Consent Decree provides that

Conklin will pay the United States $262,500 dollars for response costs

incurred in conducting a removal action at the Malter International

Site located in the City of Gretna, Jefferson Parish, Louisiana.

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. Conklin Company, Inc., et al. DOJ Ref. #90-11-2-1247.

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

United States Attorney, Eastern District of Louisiana, Hale Boggs

Federal Building, 501 Magazine Street, Second Floor, New Orleans,

Louisiana 70130; the Region VI Office of the Environmental Protection

Agency, 1445 Ross Avenue, Dallas, Texas; 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.,

3rd Floor, Washington, D.C. 20005. In requesting a copy please refer to

the referenced case and enclose a check in the amount of $6.00 (25

cents per page reproduction costs), payable to the Consent Decree

Library.

Joel M. Gross,

Chief, Environmental Enforcement Section, Environment and Natural

Resources Division.

[FR Doc. 99-20747 Filed 8-10-99 8:45 am]

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