Federal Register / Vol. 62, No. 232 / Wednesday, December 3, 1997 / Notices 63959

The Commission transmitted its

determinations in these investigations to

the Secretary of Commerce on

November 26, 1997. The views of the

Commission are contained in USITC

Publication 3075 (November 1997),

entitled ‘‘Certain Steel Wire Rod from

Canada, Germany, Trinidad and Tobago,

and Venezuela: Investigations Nos. 701–

TA–368–371 (Final).’’

Issued: November 28, 1997.

By order of the Commission.

Donna R. Koehnke,

Secretary.

[FR Doc. 97–31717 Filed 12–2–97; 8:45 am]

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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

Notice of Lodging of Consent Decrees

Pursuant to the Comprehensive

Environmental Response,

Compensation, and Liability Act and

the Resource Conservation and

Recovery Act

In accordance with Departmental

policy, 28 CFR 50.7, Section 122(d) (2)

of the Comprehensive Environmental

Response, Compensation, and Liability

Act (‘‘CERCLA’’), 42 U.S.C. 9622(d)(2),

and Section 7003(d) of the Resource

Conservation and Recovery Act

(‘‘RCRA’’), 42 U.S.C. 6973(d), notice is

hereby given that proposed consent

decrees in United States, et al. v. Alcan

Aluminum, Inc., et al., Civil Action No.

88–4970, and in United States v. Air

Products and Chemicals, Inc., et al.,

Civil Action No. 97–7140, were lodged

on November 21, 1997, with the United

States District Court for the Eastern

District of Pennsylvania. The proposed

consent decrees, which together are

intended to comprise a global settlement

with respect to remaining issues

involving the Kline Township location

of the Site, would settle actions that the

United States brought on behalf of the

United States Environmental Protection

Agency under Sections 106 and 107(a)

of the Comprehensive Environmental

Response, Compensation, and Liability

Act, as amended (‘‘CERCLA’’), 42 U.S.C.

9606, 9607(a), to compel environmental

response actions to be taken and for

recovery of response costs incurred by

the United States in connection with the

McAdoo Associates Superfund Site,

located in Schuylkill County,

Pennsylvania, in or near the Borough of

McAdoo (‘‘the Site’’). The consent

decrees would also resolve the claims of

some of the settling defendants against

other of the settling defendants arising

out of this and an earlier settlement

related to the Site in United States and

Commonwealth of Pennsylvania v. Air

Products and Chemicals, Inc., et al.,

Civil Action No. 87–7352 (E.D. Pa.)

(consent decree entered June 3, 1988)

(‘‘the 1988 decree’’). Under the terms of

the proposed consent decrees, (1) the

United States will recover on behalf of

the EPA Hazardous Substance

Superfund, from those settling

defendants that did not settle with the

United States under the 1988 decree

(‘‘the Alcan parties’’), the sum of

$970,000, plus a designated share of

interest that has accrued on funds that

the Alcan parties paid into an escrow

account pending finalization of a 1992

consent decree, whose entry was

vacated by the United States Court of

Appeals in United States v. Alcan

Aluminum, Inc., 25 F. 3d 1174 (3d Cir.

1994); (2) those settling defendants that

settled under the 1988 decree (‘‘the Air

Products parties’’) will receive $1.2

million from the Alcan parties and from

the escrow account to resolve the Air

Products parties’ claims for contribution

against the Alcan parties ($170,000),

and to resolve the Air Products parties’

reauthorized claim for reimbursement

from the EPA Hazardous Substance

Superfund under the 1988 decree ($1.03

million); (3) the Air Products parties

will perform a groundwater monitoring

remedy selected by EPA under a Record

of Decision for the Site issued on

September 30, 1991 for Operable Unit

Two (OU2) at the Site; and (4) the

settling defendants will pay the United

States and the Commonwealth of

Pennsylvania’s past costs relating to

OU2 at the Site (totaling $75,000 and

$5,000, respectively).

The consent decrees include a

covenant not to sue by the United States

under Sections 106 and 107 of CERCLA,

and under Section 7003 of RCRA.

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 decrees. Comments should be

addressed to the Assistant Attorney

General of the Environment and Natural

Resources Division, Department of

Justice, Washington, D.C. 20530, and

should refer to United States v. Alcan

Aluminum, Inc., et al., DOJ Ref. Nos.

90–11–3–142A and 90–11–3–142E.

Commenters may request an

opportunity for a public meeting in the

affected area, in accordance with

Section 7003(d) of RCRA, 42 U.S.C.

6973(d).

The proposed consent decrees may be

examined at the office of the United

States Attorney for the Eastern District

of Pennsylvania, 615 Chestnut Street,

Suite 1250, Philadelphia, PA 19106; the

Region III Office of the Environmental

Protection Agency, 841 Chestnut

Building, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

19107; and at the Consent Decree

Library, 1120 G Street, N.W., 4th Floor,

Washington, D.C. 20005, (202) 624–

0892. A copy of the proposed consent

decrees may be obtained in person or by

mail from the Consent Decree Library,

1120 G Street, N.W., 4th Floor,

Washington, D.C. 20005. In requesting a

copy, please refer to the referenced case

and enclose a check in the amount of

$33.50 (25 cents per page reproduction

costs) payable to the Consent Decree

Library (or $89.75 for a copy that

includes all signature pages and

exhibits).

Walker Smith,

Deputy Chief, Environmental Enforcement

Section, Environment and Natural Resources

Division.

[FR Doc. 97–31722 Filed 12–2–97; 8:45 am]

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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

Antitrust Division

Notice Pursuant to the National

Cooperative Research and Production

Act of 1993—Petroleum Environmental

Research Forum

Notice is hereby given that, on

November 12, 1997, pursuant to Section

6(a) of the National Cooperative

Research and Production Act of 1993,

15 U.S.C. § 4301, et seq. (‘‘the Act’’), the

Petroleum Environmental Research

Forum (‘‘PERF’’) has filed written

notifications simultaneously with the

Attorney General and with the Federal

Trade Commission disclosing a change

in its membership. The notifications

were filed for the purpose of extending

the Act’s provisions limiting the

recovery of antitrust plaintiffs to actual

damages under specified circumstances.

Specifically, the notifications stated that

Sun Company, Inc., has terminated its

membership in PERF.

No other changes have been made in

either the membership or planned

activities of PERF. Membership in PERF

remains open, and PERF intends to file

additional written notification

disclosing all changes in membership.

On February 10, 1986, PERF filed its

original notification pursuant to Section

6(a) of the Act. The Department of

Justice published a notice in the Federal

Register pursuant to Section 6(b) of the

Act on March 14, 1986 (51 FR 8903).

The last notification was filed with

the Department on February 15, 1996. A

notice was published in the Federal

Register pursuant to Section 6(b) of the