Notice of Lodging of Consent Decrees Pursuant to the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act

DEPARTMENT OF LABOR

Notice of Lodging of Consent Decrees Pursuant to the

Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act

In accordance with Departmental policy, the Department of Justice

gives notice that a proposed partial consent decree in the consolidated

cases captioned United States v. Cantrell, et al., Civil Action No. C-

1-97-981 (S.D. Ohio) and United States v. Ohio Power Co., et al., Civil

Action No. C-1-98-247 (S.D. Ohio) was lodged with the United States

District Court for the Southern District of Ohio, Western Division, on

September 15, 1999, pertaining to the Automatic Containers Superfund

Site (the ``Site''), located near Ironton, in Lawrence County, Ohio.

The proposed consent decree would resolve certain civil claims of the

United States for recovery of more than $1.3 million in unreimbursed

past response costs under Section 107 of the Comprehensive

Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act, as amended

(``CERCLA''), 42 U.S.C. 9607, against two third-party defendants in the

consolidated cases. The proposed consent decree, captioned ``Partial

Consent Decree with Third-Party Settling Defendants Brooks Beverage

Management, Inc. and Woodrow W. Mays & Associates, Inc.,'' would

provide for payment of $8667.00 in reimbursement of past CERCLA

response costs the United States incurred in connection 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, Environment and Natural Resources Division, United

States Department of Justice, Washington, DC 20530, and should refer to

United States v. Cantrell, et al., Civil Action No. C-1-97-981 (S.D.

Ohio) and United States v. Ohio Power Co., et al., Civil Action No. C-

1-98-247 (S.D. Ohio), and DOJ Reference Nos. 90-11-3-1756 and 90-11-3-

1756/1.

The proposed consent decree may be examined at: (1) The Office of

the United States Attorney for the Southern District of Ohio, 220 U.S.

Courthouse, 100 East Fifth Street, Cincinnati, Ohio 45202 (contact

Gerald Kaminski (513-684-3711)); and (2) the United States

Environmental Protection Agency (Region 5), 77 West Jackson Boulevard,

Chicago, Illinois 60604-3590 (contact Mony Chabria (312-886-6842)). A

copy of the proposed consent decree may also be obtained by mail from

the Department of Justice Consent Decree Library, PO Box 7611,

Washington, DC 20044. In requesting copies, please refer to the

referenced cases and DOJ Reference Numbers, and enclose a check for the

amount described below, made payable to the Consent Decree Library. The

cost for a copy of the consent decree and all appendices is $6.50 (26

pages at 25 cents per page reproduction costs).

Joel M. Gross,

Chief, Environmental Enforcement Section, Environment and Natural

Resources Division.

[FR Doc. 99-25341 Filed 9-28-99; 8:45 am]

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