[Federal Register Volume 62, Number 64 (Thursday, April 3, 1997)]
[Notices]
[Page 15919]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 97-8530]


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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

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

    Notice is hereby given that a proposed consent decree in United 
States, et al. versus Montrose Chemical Corporation of California, et 
al, No. CV 90-3122-AAH (C.D. Cal), was lodged on March 25, 1997, with 
the United States District Court for the Central District of 
California. The consent decree resolves claims under Section 107 of the 
Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act 
of 1980, 42 U.S.C. Sec. 9607, as amended, brought against defendant 
County Sanitation Districts of Los Angeles County and 150 third-party 
defendants for natural resource damages associated with contamination 
of sediments on the Palos Verdes shelf in the vicinity of Los Angeles, 
California, and for response costs incurred and to be incurred by the 
United States Environmental Protection Agency in connection with 
responding to the release and threatened release of hazardous 
substances at the Montrose Chemical National Priorities List Site in 
Torrance, CA, and at the aforementioned Palos Verdes shelf.
    The proposed consent decree provides that the aforementioned 
entities will collectively pay $45.7 million to resolve their liability 
to the United States for natural resource damages and response costs as 
described above. The proposed consent decree includes a covenant not to 
sue by the United States under Sections 106 and 107 of the 
Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act 
of 1980, 42 U.S.C. Secs. 9606 and 9607, and under Section 7003 of the 
Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (``RCRA''), 42 U.S.C. Sec. 6973.
    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. Commenters may request an opportunity for a 
public meeting in the affected area, in accordance with Section 7003(d) 
of RCRA. Comments should be addressed to the Assistant Attorney General 
for the Environment and Natural Resources Division, Department of 
Justice, Washington, D.C. 20530, and should refer to United States, et 
al. versus Montrose Chemical Corporation of California, et al., No. CV 
90-3122-AAH (C.D. Cal), DOJ Ref. #90-11-3-159 and DOJ Ref. #90-11-3-
511.
    The proposed consent decree may be examined at the office of the 
United States Attorney, Central District of California, Federal 
Building, 300 North Los Angeles Street, Los Angeles, CA 90012; the 
Region IX Office of the Environmental Protection Agency, 75 Hawthorne 
Street, San Francisco, CA 94105; 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 decree 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 copies please refer to the 
referenced case and enclose a check in the amount of $67.00 (25 cents 
per page reproduction costs), payable to the Consent Decree Library.
Joel Gross,
Chief, Environmental Enforcement Section, Environment and Natural 
Resources Division.
[FR Doc. 97-8530 Filed 4-2-97; 8:45 am]
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