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 Sec. 50.7, 38 Fed.

Reg. 19029, and 42 U.S.C. Sec. 9622(d), notice is hereby given that on

November 23, 1999, a proposed consent decree in United States v. Green

Mountain Power Corporation, et al., Civil Action No.

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1:99-CV-366, was lodged with the United States District Court for the

District of Vermont. The proposed consent decree resolves certain

claims against Green Mountain Power Corporation, New England Electric

System, Vermont Gas Systems, Inc., UGI Utilities, Inc., Southern Union

Company, General Electric Company, Lockheed Martin Corporation, General

Dynamics Armament Systems, Inc., Maytag Corporation, Citizens

Properties, Inc., Davis Development, City of Burlington, Maltex

Partnership, 453 Pine Street Associates, BCV Corporation, UDV North

America, Inc., Specialty Filaments, Inc., Martin Marietta Corporation,

Vermont Agency of Transportation, the Uhlmann Company, and Vermont

Railway, Inc. under Sections 106 and 107 of the Comprehensive

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

42 U.S.C. 9606 and 9607, regarding the release and/or threat of release

of hazardous substances at and from the Pine Street Canal Site in

Burlington, Vermont. The settlers are current or former owners and/or

operators of the Site or adjacent property. The settlement also

resolves claims against the General Services Administration and the

Department of Commerce based on the ownership and operation by

predecessor agencies of a portion of the Site.

Pursuant to the proposed settlement, the settlers shall: reimburse

the United States $5.25 million plus interest from April 30, 1998 for

past Environmental Protection Agency and Department of Justice costs;

pay 100% of oversight costs for the remedy; pay 100% of other future

response costs; implement the remedial action for the Site; implement a

natural resource restoration project; reimburse the United States

$24,150 for past trustee response costs; and pay $25,000 for trustee

oversight costs related to the project. The United States will pay

$500,000 toward the costs incurred and to be incurred at the Site.

The Department of Justice will receive for a period of sixty (60)

days from the date of this publication comments relating to the

proposed consent decree. Comments should be addressed to the Assistant

Attorney General of the Environment and Natural Resources Division,

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

States v. Green Mountain Power Corporation, Civil Action No. D.J. Ref.

90-11-3-409A.

The proposed consent decree may be examined at either of the

following locations: (1) the Office of the United States Attorney,

District of Vermont, 11 Elmwood Avenue, Burlington, Vermont; or (2)

Region I, Office of the Environmental Protection Agency, One Congress

Street, Boston, Massachusetts, 02203. A copy of the consent decree can

be obtained by mail (without attachments) from the Department of

Justice Consent Decree Library, PO Box 7611, Washington, DC 20044. In

requesting a copy of the consent decree (without attachments), please

enclose a check in the amount of $19.50 (25 cents per page reproduction

cost) payable to the Consent Decree Library.

Joel Gross,

Chief, Environmental Enforcement Section Environment and Natural

Resources Division.

[FR Doc. 99-31623 Filed 12-6-99; 8:45 am]

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