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

 
Notice of Lodging of Consent Decrees Pursuant to the 
Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act

    In accordance with Departmental policy, the Department of Justice 
gives notice that a proposed partial consent decree in the consolidated 
cases captioned United States v. Cantrell, et al., Civil Action No. C-
1-97-981 (S.D. Ohio) and United States v. Ohio Power Co., et al., Civil 
Action No. C-1-98-247 (S.D. Ohio) was lodged with the United States 
District Court for the Southern District of Ohio, Western Division, on 
September 15, 1999, pertaining to the Automatic Containers Superfund 
Site (the ``Site''), located near Ironton, in Lawrence County, Ohio. 
The proposed consent decree would resolve certain civil claims of the 
United States for recovery of more than $1.3 million in unreimbursed 
past response costs under Section 107 of the Comprehensive 
Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act, as amended 
(``CERCLA''), 42 U.S.C. 9607, against two third-party defendants in the 
consolidated cases. The proposed consent decree, captioned ``Partial 
Consent Decree with Third-Party Settling Defendants Brooks Beverage 
Management, Inc. and Woodrow W. Mays & Associates, Inc.,'' would 
provide for payment of $8667.00 in reimbursement of past CERCLA 
response costs the United States incurred in connection with the Site.
    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, Environment and Natural Resources Division, United 
States Department of Justice, Washington, DC 20530, and should refer to 
United States v. Cantrell, et al., Civil Action No. C-1-97-981 (S.D. 
Ohio) and United States v. Ohio Power Co., et al., Civil Action No. C-
1-98-247 (S.D. Ohio), and DOJ Reference Nos. 90-11-3-1756 and 90-11-3-
1756/1.
    The proposed consent decree may be examined at: (1) The Office of 
the United States Attorney for the Southern District of Ohio, 220 U.S. 
Courthouse, 100 East Fifth Street, Cincinnati, Ohio 45202 (contact 
Gerald Kaminski (513-684-3711)); and (2) the United States 
Environmental Protection Agency (Region 5), 77 West Jackson Boulevard, 
Chicago, Illinois 60604-3590 (contact Mony Chabria (312-886-6842)). 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 copies, please refer to the 
referenced cases and DOJ Reference Numbers, and enclose a check for the 
amount described below, made payable to the Consent Decree Library. The 
cost for a copy of the consent decree and all appendices is $6.50 (26 
pages at 25 cents per page reproduction costs).
Joel M. Gross,
Chief, Environmental Enforcement Section, Environment and Natural 
Resources Division.
[FR Doc. 99-25341 Filed 9-28-99; 8:45 am]
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