[Federal Register: June 16, 1999 (Volume 64, Number 115)]
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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 50.7, and section 
122 of CERCLA, 42 U.S.C. 9622, notice is hereby given that on May 21, 
1999, a proposed Consent Decree in United States v. City of Grand 
Rapids, Michigan, et. al., Civil Action No. 1:99 CV 388, was lodged 
with the United States District Court for the Western District of 
Michigan, Southern Division. This consent decree represents a 
settlement of claims brought by the United States, pursuant to the 
Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act, 
42 U.S.C. 9601 et seq., against 53 Settling Defendants for 
reimbursement of response costs and injunctive relief in connection 
with the Butterworth No. 2 Landfill Superfund Site (``Site'') located 
in Grand Rapids, Kent County, Michigan.
    Under this settlement with the United States, the Settling 
Defendants will implement most of the remedy for the Site as set forth 
in the Record of Decision issued by the United States Environmental 
Protection Agency in March 1992 and as modified by an Explanation of 
Significant Differences dated October 1998. The decree reserves a 
portion of the remedial work, which the United States will seek to have 
non-settlors perform.
    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 of the Environment and Natural Resources Division, 
Department of Justice, Washington, DC 20530, and should refer to United 
States v. City of Grand Rapids, Michigan, et al., D.J. Ref. 90-11-2-
145A.
    The proposed Consent Decree may be examined at the Office of the 
United States Attorney, Grand Rapids, Michigan, at the Region 5 Office 
of the Environmental Protection Agency, 77 West Jackson Street, 
Chicago, Illinois 60604-3590, and the Consent Decree Library, 1120 G 
Street, NW, 3rd Flood, Washington, DC 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, NW, 3rd Floor, Washington, 
DC 20005. In requesting a copy, please enclose a check in the amount of 
$33.75 (25 cents per page reproduction cost) payable to the Consent 
Decree Library.
Joel M. Gross,
Chief, Environmental Enforcement Section, Environment and Natural 
Resources Division.
[FR Doc. 99-15204 Filed 6-15-99; 8:45 am]
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