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

Notice is hereby given that a consent decree in United States v.

Nassau Metals Corporation, Civil Action No. 4:CV 99-2042 (M.D. Pa.) was

lodged with the court on November 23, 1999.

The proposed decree resolves claims of the United States against

Nassau Metals Corporation under Sections 106 and 107 of the

Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act,

as amended (``CERCLA''), 42 U.S.C. 9606 and 9607, for response costs

and actions at the MW Manufacturing Superfund Site in Valley Township,

Montour County, PA. The decree requires the defendant to reimburse the

United States $6,515,000 in response costs and to implement the EPA-

selected remedy for the fifth and final operable unit at the Site. That

remedy includes on-site stabilization and capping of contaminated waste

materials.

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. Nassau Metals Corporation, Civil Action No. 4:CV 99-

2042 (M.D. Pa.), DOJ Ref. #90-11-3-06793/1.

The proposed consent decree may be examined and copied at the

Office of the United States Attorney, Room 1162, Federal Building, 228

Walnut Street, Harrisburg, PA 17108; or at the Region III Office of the

Environmental Protection Agency, c/o Thomas Cinti, Assistant Regional

Counsel, 1650 Arch Street, Philadelphia, PA 19103. A copy of the

proposed consent decree may be obtained by mail from the Consent Decree

Library, P.O. Box No. 7611, Washington, D.C. 20044. In requesting a

copy, please refer to the referenced case and enclose a check in the

amount of $23.25 (25 cents per page reproduction costs), payable to the

Consent Decree Library. A copy of the exhibits to the decree may be

obtained from the same source for an additional charge.

Joel M. Gross,

Chief, Environmental Enforcement Section, Environmental and Natural

Resources Division.

[FR Doc. 99-31788 Filed 12-1-99; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 4410-15-M