Notice of Lodging of Consent Decree Pursuant to the Comprehensive Environmental Response Compensation and Liability Act (``CERCLA'')

DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

Notice of Lodging of Consent Decree Pursuant to the Comprehensive

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

Consistent with Departmental policy, 28 CFR 50.7, 38 FR 19029, and

42 U.S.C. 9622(d), notice is hereby given that a proposed consent

decree in United States v. Jane Doe, as Executrix of the Estate of

Edmund Barbera, et al., 96 Civ. 8563 (BSJ), was lodged on November 18,

1999, with the United States District Court for the Southern District

of New York. The Consent Decree addresses the hazardous waste

contamination at the Port Refinery Superfund Site (the ``Site''),

located in the Village of Rye Brook, Westchester County, New York. The

Consent Decree requires eleven generators of hazardous substances

transported to the Site to pay to the United States a total of

$482,305.

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, DC 20530, and should refer to United

States v. Jane Doe, as Executrix of the Estate of Edmund Barbera, et

al., DOJ Ref. #90-11-3-1142A.

The proposed consent decree may be examined at the office of the

United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, 100

Church Street, New York, New York, 10007 (contact Assistant United

States Attorney Kathy S. Marks); and the Region II Office of the

Environmental Protection Agency, 290 Broadway, New York, New York,

10007-1866 (contact Assistant Regional Counsel Michael Mintzer). A copy

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

Decree Library, PO Box 7611, Washington, DC 20044-7611. In requesting a

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

amount of $8.75 (25 cents per page reproduction costs) for the Consent

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Decree, payable to the Consent Decree Library.

Bruce S. Gelber,

Deputy Chief, Environmental Enforcement Section, Environment and

Natural Resources Division.

[FR Doc. 99-32613 Filed 12-15-99; 8:45 am]

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