[Federal Register: October 14, 1999 (Volume 64, Number 198)]
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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 the policy of the Department of Justice, 28 
U.S.C. 50.7, and pursuant to Section 122(d)(2) of the Comprehensive 
Environmental Response Compsenation and Liability Act, 42 U.S.C. 9601 
et seq., (``CERCLA''), notice is hereby given that a proposed consent 
decree in United States v. Akzo Nobel A.B., Civ. No. 1:99-CV-731, was 
lodged with the United States District Court for the Western District 
of Michigan, on September 22, 1999. The action was brought by the 
United States against fourteen defendants seeking the performance of a 
remedial action at the Bofors Noble Superfund Site in Muskegon, 
Michigan, and reimbursement of response costs incurred in connection 
with site.
    The settling parties are Akzo Nobel A.B., American Cyanamid 
Company, Bissel, Inc., E.I. DuPont DeNemours and Company, Dow 
Agrosciences LLC, Eli Lilly Company, General Electric Company, IBM 
Corporation, Lomac, Inc., Mallinckrodt, Inc., Monsanto Company, Shell 
Oil Company, Smithkline Beecham Corporation, and Union Carbide 
Corporation.
    Under the proposed settlement, eight of the settlors will be 
responsible for performing the response action at the Bofors Nobel 
site. The remaining parties will contribute funds in the amounts set 
forth in the proposed decree which will be used to finance the work, 
reimburse response costs incurred by the United States Environmental 
Protection Agency in connection with the site, and pay natural resource 
damages arising from releases of hazardous substances at the site. 
Under the proposed consent decree, the Environmental Protection Agency 
will provide mixed funding, up to an amount of $7.2 million, to assist 
in financing the remedial action at the site.
    The proposed consent decree may be examined at: (1) The Office of 
the United States Attorney for the Western District of Michigan, The 
Law Building, 330 Ionia Avenue, N.W., 5th Floor, Grand Rapids, 
Michigan, 49503, (616-456-2404); (2) the United States Environmental 
Protection Agency (Region 5), 77 West Jackson Boulevard, Chicago, 
Illinois 60604-3590 (contact Thomas Kruegar (312-886-0562); and, (3) a 
copy of the proposed Consent Decree may be obtained by mail from the 
Department of Justice Consent Decree Library, P.O. Box 7611, Ben 
Franklin Station, Washington DC 20044. When requesting a copy, please 
refer to United States v. Akzo Nobel, A.B. et al. D.J. Ref. 90-11-3-
191A, and enclose a check in the amount of $38.75 for the consent 
decree only (155 pages at 25 cents per page reproduction costs), or 
$251.50 for the consent decree and all appendices (1006 pages), made 
payable to the Consent Decree Library.
Joel M. Gross,
Chief, Environmental Enforcement Section, Environmental and Natural 
Resources Division.
[FR Doc. 99-26822 Filed 10-13-99; 8:45 am]
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