[Federal Register Volume 65, Number 204 (Friday, October 20, 2000)]
[Notices]
[Page 63099]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE


Notice of Lodging of Consent Decree Pursuant to the Comprehensive 
Environmental Response Compensation and Liability Act (``CERCLA'')

    Consistent with Department policy, 28 CFR 50.7, and under section 
122(d) of CERCLA, 42 U.S.C. 9622(d), notice is hereby given that a 
proposed consent decree in United States v. Livingston, et al., Civ. 
No. 97-4770 (WGB), was lodged on October 3, 2000 with the United States 
District Court for the District of New Jersey. The Consent Decree 
concerns hazardous waste contamination at the Brook Industrial Park 
Superfund Site (the ``Site''), located in Bound Brook, Somerset County, 
New Jersey. The Consent Decree would resolve the liability for 
reimbursement of response costs incurred and to be incurred by the 
United States in connection with the Site as to three defendants 
against whom the United States filed a complaint on behalf of the 
United States Environmental Protection Agency (``EPA''), and as to the 
United States Air Force (``Air Force''), against whom counterclaims 
were filed. The Consent Decree requires National Metal Finishings 
Corporation, Inc. to reimburse the EPA Hazardous Substance Superfund 
$313,000.00; requires the Air Force to reimburse the EPA Hazardous 
Substance Superfund $1,615.485.83; and requires Jame Fine Chemicals, 
Inc. and the Estate of Richard Schleck to perform remedial work at the 
Site with an estimated cost of $1.9 million and to pay specified EPA 
oversight costs in connection with the remedial work.
    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, P.O. Box 
7611, U.S. Department of Justice, Washington, D.C. 20044-7611, and 
should refer to United States v. Livingston, et al., DOJ Ref. #90-11-2-
1287. Commenters may request an opportunity for a public meeting in the 
affected area, in accordance with section 703(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 District of New Jersey, 970 Broad 
Street, Newark, New Jersey 01102 (contact Assistant United States 
Attorney Susan C. Cassell); and the Region II Office of the 
Environmental Protection Agency, 290 Broadway, New York, New York, 
10007-1866 (contact Assistant Regional Counsel Muthu S. Sundram). A 
copy of the proposed consent decree may be obtained by mail from the 
Consent Decree Library, P.O. Box 7611, Washington, D.C. 20044-7611. In 
requesting a copy please refer to the referenced case and enclose a 
check in the amount of $14.50 (25 cents per page reproduction costs) 
for the Consent Decree without Appendices, or in the amount of $45.75 
for the Consent Decree with all Appendices, payable to the Consent 
Decree Library.

Bruce S. Gelber,
Chief, Environmental Enforcement Section, Environment and Natural 
Resources Division.
[FR Doc. 00-27004 Filed 10-19-00; 8:45 am]
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