[Federal Register: October 15, 1998 (Volume 63, Number 199)]
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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

 
Notice of Lodging of Consent Decree Pursuant to the Comprehensive 
Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act and Resource 
Conservation and Recovery Act; Lake Geneva Associates, et al.

    In accordance with Departmental policy, 28 C.F.R. Sec. 50.7, notice 
is hereby given that on September 30, 1998 a proposed Consent Decree in 
United States v. Lake Geneva Associates, et al., Civil Action No. 98-C-
0972, was lodged with the United States District Court for the Eastern 
District of Wisconsin.
    The Consent Decree resolves certain claims of the United States 
against Lake Geneva Associates, Playboy Enterprises, and Marcus Geneva, 
Inc., under Sections 107(a) and 113(g)(2) of CERCLA, 42 U.S.C. 9607(a) 
and 9613(g)(2), at the former Southern Lakes Trap Skeet Club site 
(``the Site'') near Lake Geneva in Walworth County, Wisconsin. The 
defendants have been named as either a former owner during the disposal 
of hazardous substances at, or the current owner of, the Site.
    The settlement requires the settling defendants to make payment of 
$925,000 for past response costs incurred by the U.S. Environmental 
Protection Agency in connection with the Site and of $75,000 on behalf 
of the Department of the Interior and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife 
Service for natural resource damages. The Consent Decree includes a 
covenant not to sue by the United States under Sections 106 and 107(a) 
of CERCLA and Section 7003 of the Resource Conservation and Recovery 
Act (``RCRA''), 42 U.S.C. 6973, for: (1) Response costs and actions 
associated with the EPA removal action at the Site; (2) natural 
resource damages resulting from shooting activities at or from the 
Site; and, (3) any and all claims by the United States for violations 
of the requirements of an EPA administrative order, Docket No. V-W-94-
C.
    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, 
United

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States Department of Justice, P.O. Box 7611, Ben Franklin Station, 
Washington, D.C. 20044-7611, and should refer to United States v. Lake 
Geneva Associates, et al., Civil Action No. 98-C-0972, and the 
Department of Justice Reference No. 90-11-3-1063. Commenters may 
request an opportunity for a public hearing in the affected area, in 
accordance with Section 7003(d) of RCRA, 42 U.S.C. 6973(d).
    The proposed Consent Decree may be examined at the Office of the 
United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Wisconsin, 517 E. 
Wisconsin Ave., Room 530, Milwaukee, Wisconsin 53202; the Region 5 
Office of the United States Environmental Protection Agency, 77 West 
Jackson Boulevard, Chicago, Illinois 60604-3590; and at the Consent 
Decree Library, 1120 G Street, N.W., 3rd Floor, Washington, D.C. 20005, 
telephone no. (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, N.W., 3rd Floor, Washington, D.C. 20005. In requesting a 
copy, please refer to DJ #90-11-3-1063, and enclose a check in the 
amount of $30.75 (25 cents per page for reproduction costs), payable to 
the Consent Decree Library.
Joel M. Gross,
Chief, Environmental Enforcement Section, Environment and Natural 
Resources Division.
[FR Doc. 98-27689 Filed 10-14-98; 8:45 am]
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