[Federal Register: September 29, 1999 (Volume 64, Number 188)]
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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

 
Notice of Lodging of Consent Decree Pursuant to the Comprehensive 
Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980, as 
Amended

    Consistent with Departmental policy, 28 CFR 50.7, 30 FR 19029, and 
42 U.S.C. 9622(d), notice is hereby given that on September 13, 1999, a 
proposed Consent Decree in United States of America v. Glen Cove 
Development Company and Village Green Realty at Garvies Point, Inc., 
Civil Action No. CV-99-5600, was lodged with the United States District 
Court for the Eastern District of New York. The proposed Consent Decree 
will resolve the United States' claims under the Comprehensive 
Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (``CERCLA''), 
42 U.S.C. 9601 et seq., on behalf of the U.S. Environmental Protection 
Agency (``EPA''), against defendants glen Cove Development Company and 
Village Green Realty at Garvies Point, Inc. (the ``Settling 
Defendants''), with respect to the Li Tungsten Superfund Site located 
in Glen Cove, Nassau County, New York. The Complaint alleges that the 
Settling Defendants are liable as current owners within the meaning of 
section 107(a)(1) of CERCLA, 42 U.S.C. 9607(a)(1). The proposed Consent 
Decree also will resolve any liability with respect to the Li Tungsten 
Superfund Site of certain entities related to the Settling Defendants, 
namely Old Court Holding Company, Old Court Joint Ventures, Inc., and 
Old Court Savings and Loan, Inc., (In Receivership). Pursuant to the 
Consent Decree, the Settling Defendants, and Old Court Holding Company, 
Old Court Joint Ventures, Inc. and Old Court Savings and Loan, Inc. (In 
Receivership) jointly will pay to the United States $325,000.00 in 
reimbursement of response costs incurred or to be incurred by EPA or 
the Department of Justice at or in connection with the Li Tungsten 
Superfund Site.
    The Department of Justice will receive for a period of fifteen (15) 
days from the date of this publication comments relating to the 
proposed consent decree. Any 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 of America v. Glen Cove Development Company and 
Village Green Realty at Garvies Point, Inc., Civil Action No. CV-99-
5600, D.J. Ref. 90-11-3-06561/1.
    The proposed consent decree may be examined at the Office of the 
United States Attorney, Eastern District of New York, One Pierrepont 
Plaza, 14th Floor, Brooklyn, New York 11201 and at Region II, Office of 
the Environmental Protection Agency, 290 Broadway, New York, NY 10007-
1866. A copy of the proposed consent decree may also be obtained by 
mail from the Department of Justice Consent Decree Library, PO Box 
7611, Washington, DC 20044. In requesting a copy, please enclose a 
check (there is a 25 cent per page reproduction cost) in the amount of 
$10.25 payable to the Consent Decree Library. If a copy of the Consent 
Decree without the attachments is sufficient, please specify that fact 
and enclose a check in the amount of $9.50.
Joel M. Gross,
Chief, Environmental Enforcement Section, Environment and Natural 
Resources Division.
[FR Doc. 99-25339 Filed 9-28-99; 8:45 am]
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