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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE 

Notice of Lodging of Consent Decree 

Pursuant to the Comprehensive 

Environmental Response 

Compensation and Liability Act 

(CERCLA) 

Pursuant to Section 122(d) of 

CERCLA, 42 U.S.C. 9622(d), and 28 CFR 

50.7, notice is hereby given that on 

September 8, 2005, a proposed Consent 

Decree (‘‘Decree’’ in United States v. 

Massachusetts Bay Transportation 

Authority, Civ. No. 05–11827 RWZ, was 

lodged with the United States District 

Court for the District of Massachusetts. 

In this action the United States, on 

behalf of the United States 

Environmental Protection Agency 

(‘‘EPA’’), seeks cost recovery with 

respect to the Morses Pond Culvert 

Superfund Site (the ‘‘Site’’), located in 

the Town of Wellesley, Massachusetts, 

pursuant to CERCLA, against the 

Massachusetts Bay Transportation 

Authority (‘‘MBTA’’), the current owner 

of a portion of the Site. The proposed 

Decree settles the claims brought by the 

United States against MBTA. Under the 

terms of the proposed settlement, within 

thirty days of entry of the Decree, MBTA 

will pay $150,000, plus interest, to 

reimburse the United States for a 

portion of its costs incurred at the Site. 

The Department of Justice will 

receive, for a period of thirty (30) days 

from the date of this publication, 

written comments relating to the 

proposed Decree. Comments should be 

addressed to the Assistant Attorney 

General, Environment and Natural 

Resources Division, Post Office Box 

7611, United States Department of 

Justice, Washington, DC 20044–7611, 

and should refer to United States v. 

Massachusetts Bay Transportation 

Authority, DOJ Ref. #90–11–3–07035/2. 

A copy of the comments should be sent 

to Donald G. Frankel, Department of 

Justice, Suite 616, One Gateway Center, 

Newton, MA, 02458. 

The proposed Consent Decree may be 

examined at the Office of the United 

States Attorney for the District of 

Massachusetts, Office of the United 

States Attorney, 1 Courthouse Way, 

John Joseph Moakley Courthouse, 

Boston, Massachusetts 02210, and at the 

United States Environmental Protection 

Agency, Region 1, 1 Congress Street, 

Suite 1100, Boston, Massachusetts 

02114–2023. During the public 

comment period, the Consent Decree 

may also be examined on the following 

Department of Justice Web site: http:// 

www.usdoj.gov/enrd/open.html. A copy 

of the Consent Decree may be also be 

obtained by mail from the Consent 

Decree Library, Post Office Box 7611, 

Washington, DC 20044–7611, or by 

faxing or e-mailing a request to Tonia 

Fleetwood at tonia.fleetwood@usdoj.gov 

or fax no. (202) 514–0097, phone 

confirmation number (202) 514–1547. In 

requesting a copy of the Decree from the 

Consent Decree Library, please enclose 

a check in the amount of $4.75 (25 cents 

per page reproduction costs) payable to 

the United States Treasury. 

Ronald G. Gluck, 

Assistant Section Chief, Environmental 

Enforcement Section, Environment and 

Natural Resources Division. 

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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE 

Notice of Modification of Consent 

Decree Under the Clean Water Act 

Under 28 CFR 50.7, the Environment 

and Natural Resources Division of the 

Department of Justice proposes to 

modify a Consent Decree in United 

States and State of Louisiana v. 

Sewerage District No. 1 of Iberia Parish, 

Civil Action No. 04–1352. The Consent 

Decree was entered by the United States 

District Court for the Western District of 

Louisiana on December 20, 2004. 

In this action the United States, and 

its co-plaintiff the State of Louisiana, 

sought injunctive relief and a civil 

penalty to address sanitary sewer 

overflows and other violations of the 

Clean Water Act and the National 

Pollutant Discharge Elimination System 

(‘‘NPDES’’) permit issued to Sewerage 

District No. 1 of Iberia Parish 

(‘‘Sewerage District’’) for the Tete Bayou 

publicly owned treatment works. Under 

the Consent Decree, the Sewerage 

District agreed, inter alia, to construct 

an equalization basin at the Tete Bayou 

Plant to relieve wet weather plant 

hydraulic overload conditions; and to 

comprehensively study and rehabilitate 

the Sewerage District’s collection 

system to eliminate sanitary sewer 

overflows from the system. 

Additionally, the Sewerage District paid 

the United States and LDEQ a civil 

penalty of $51,400. The Sewerage 

District has asked for a modification of 

Paragraph 17.A of the Consent Decree to 

allow an extension of the end date for 

the completion of collection system 

rehabilitation projects from December 

30, 2008, to December 30, 2009. The 

United States and the State of Louisiana 

believe that the proposed modification 

is appropriate here. 

The Department of Justice will receive 

for a period of thirty (30) days from the 

date of this publication comments 

relating to the modification of the 

Consent Decree. Comments should be 

addressed to the Acting Assistant 

Attorney General, Environment and 

Natural Resources Division, P.O. Box 

7611, U.S. Department of Justice, 

Washington, DC 20044–7611, and 

should refer to United States v. 

Sewerage District No. 1 of Liberia 

Parish, D.J. Ref. No. 90–5–1–1–07473. 

The proposed modification to the 

Consent Decree may be examined 

during the public comment period on 

the following Department of Justice Web 

site: http://www.usdoj.gov/enrd/ 

open.html. A copy of the modification 

of the Consent Decree may also be 

obtained by mail from the Consent 

Decree Library, P.O. Box 7611, U.S. 

Department of Justice, Washington, DC 

20044–7611 or by faxing or e-mailing a 

request to Tonia Fleetwood 

(tonia.fleetwood@usdoj.gov), fax no. 

(202) 514–0097, phone confirmation 

number (202) 514–1537. In requesting a 

copy from the Consent Decree Library, 

please enclose a check in the amount of 

$.25 (25 cents per page reproduction 

cost) payable to the U.S. Treasury. 

Thomas A. Mariani, Jr., 

Assistant Section Chief, Environmental 

Enforcement Section, Environment and 

Natural Resources Division. 

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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE 

Notice of Lodging of Settlement 

Agreement Pursuant to the Federal 

Insecticide, Fungicide, and 

Rodenticide Act and the 

Comprehensive Environmental 

Response, Compensation, and Liability 

Act 

In accordance with 28 CFR 50.7 and 

42 U.S.C. 9622(i), notice is hereby given 

that on September 13, 2005, a 

Settlement Agreement was lodged with 

the United States District Court for the 

District of Puerto Rico in United States 

v. Tropical Fruit, S.E., et al., Civil 

Action No. 97–1442–DRD. On October 

25, 2001, the Court entered Decree 

between the United States, on behalf of 

the U.S. Environmental Protection 

Agency (‘‘EPA’’), and defendants 

pursuant to the Federal Insecticide, 

Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act 

(‘‘FIFRA’’), 7 U.S.C. 136 et seq., and the 

Comprehensive Environmental 

Response, Compensation, and Liability 

Act (‘‘CERCLA’’), 42 U.S.C. 9601, et 

seq., with respect to a Farm located in 

Rural Zone Boca, Guayanilla, Puerto 

Rico. The Consent Decree required 

Defendants to pay $35,000 in penalties 

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and CERCLA response costs and to 

comply with extensive injunctive relief 

measures, including the creation of a 

non-spray buffer zone on the northern 

and a portion of the western perimeter 

of the Farm which will vary in width up 

to 173 feet. In December 2004, the 

United States filed a Motion to Enforce 

the Consent Decree and for stipulated 

penalties in that the United States 

alleged that Defendants violated certain 

provisions of the Consent Decree 

including the requirement that 

Defendants remove ore relocate mango 

trees and banana trees from the buffer 

zone area, and replace them with 

plantain trees which would not be 

sprayed. 

The United States and Defendants 

have reached a proposed agreement to 

resolve the United States’ Motion to 

Enforce the Consent Decree and its 

request for stipulated penalties, which 

Settlement Agreement requires 

Defendants, inter alia, to remove or 

relocate the mango trees they were 

required to remove or relocate under the 

Decree by April 1, 2006, which schedule 

will allow Defendants to transplant the 

mango trees elsewhere at the Farm, and 

to replace them with bananas or 

plantains. The Settlement Agreement 

authorizes the Farm to plant, in two 

perimeter areas, an extra low of neem 

trees as a barrier instead of planting 

bananas of plantains. The Settlement 

Agreement allows Defendants to apply 

low-toxicity pesticides in limited 

circumstances and under application 

restrictions in buffer zone areas to 

address an outbreak of Sigatoka Negra. 

The Settlement Agreement also requires 

the Farm to pay a stipulated penalty of 

$50,000 over a one year period, plus 

interest. 

The proposed Settlement Agreement 

may be examined at the office of the 

United States Attorney, Federal 

Building Room 452, Carlos Chardon 

Avenue, Hato Rey, PR 00918, and at two 

offices of the Environmental Protection 

Agency, Region II: EPA, 290 Broadway, 

17th floor, New York, NY 10007–1866 

or EPA, Carribean Environmental 

Division, Centro Europa Building, Suite 

417, 1492 Ponce De Leon, Stop 22, 

Santurce, Puerto Rico, 00907–4127. 

During the public comment period, the 

Settlement Agreement may also be 

examined on the following Department 

of Justice Web site, http:// 

www.usdoj.gov/enrd/open.html. A copy 

of the proposed Settlement Agreement 

may also be obtained by mail from the 

Consent Decree Library, PO Box 7611, 

U.S. Department of Justice, Washington, 

DC 20044–7611 or by faxing or emailing a request to Tonia Fleetwood 

(tonia.fleetwood@usdoj.gov), fax no. 

(202) 514–0097, phone confirmation no. 

(202) 514–1547, referencing DOJ No. 1–

1700/1. For a copy of the proposed 

Settlement Agreement including the 

signature pages and attachments, in 

requesting a copy, please enclose a 

check (there is a 25 cent per page 

reproduction cost) in the amount of 

$3.50 payable to the U.S. Treasury. 

Ronald G. Gluck, 

Assistant Chief, Environmental Enforcement 

Section, Environmental & Natural Resources 

Division. 

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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE 

Notice of Lodging of Proposed 

Amendment to Consent Decree Under 

the Comprehensive Environmental 

Response, Compensation, and Liability 

Act 

Under 28 CFR 50.7, notice is hereby 

given that on September 2, 2005, three 

proposed Consent Decrees were lodged 

with the United States District Court for 

the Eastern District of Pennsylvania in 

U.S. v. Union Corps., et al., Civil Action 

No. 80–1589, DJ #90–11–2–1183A. 

The consent decrees propose to 

resolve the liability of Defendants Irvin 

G. Schorsch and John B. Schorsch, and 

Third Party Defendants Baltimore Gas 

and Electric Company, Consolidated 

Edison Company of New York, Inc., 

Jersey Center Power & Light Company, 

Long Island Lighting Company d/b/a 

LIPA, Metropolitan Edison Company, 

Orange and Rockland Utilities, PECO 

Energy Company, Potomac Electric 

Power Company, PP&L Electric Utilities 

Corporation, Public Service Electric and 

Gas Company, and Virginia Power 

Company (‘‘the Utilities’’) under the 

Comprehensive Environment Response, 

Compensation and Liability Act, 42 

U.S.C. 9606 and 9607, and the Resource 

Conservation and Recovery Act 

‘‘RCRA’’), 42 U.S.C. 6973, et seq. at the 

Metal Bank Superfund Site, located in 

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (‘‘the Site’’). 

The consent decree would globally 

settle this action. The Utilities would 

implement the Revised Remedial Plan 

for the Site, which has been approved 

by EPA, Region 3, and is attached to the 

Consent Decrees as an appendix, the 

implementation of which would be 

overseen by EPA. EPA would make 

available to the Utilities the moneys 

received and to be received from 

Outsourcing Solutions, Inc., under an 

earlier settlement with the corporate 

defendants in bankruptcy, which is 

expected to total $13.235 million. Irvin 

Schorsch would pay $9 million, $5.5 

million of which would be paid to the 

United States and $3.5 million would be 

paid to the Utilities, and he would also 

guarantee up to $2 million of OSI’s 

payments. John Schorsch would pay 

$600,000, $50,000 of which would be 

paid to the United States and $550,000 

would be paid to the utilities. Finally, 

the Utilities would pay all costs for the 

remedy, excluding oversight costs, not 

otherwise provided for and will 

indemnify Defendant Irvin G. Schorsch 

for any liability for cost overruns for 

work done under the revised remedial 

plan or under reopeners for future work 

needed at the site in connection with 

the site remediation. 

The Department of Justice will receive 

for a period of thirty (30) days from the 

date of this publication comments 

relating to the Amendment. Comments 

should be addressed to the Assistant 

Attorney General, Environmental and 

Natural Resources Division, P.O. Box 

7611, U.S. Department of Justice, 

Washington, DC 20044–7611, and 

should refer to U.S. v. Union Corp., et 

al., Civil Action No. 80–1589 (E.D.Pa.). 

The Consent Decrees may be 

examined at the Office of the United 

States Attorney, Eastern District of 

Pennsylvania, 615 Chestnut Street, 

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. During the 

public comment period, the 

Amendment may also be examined on 

the following Department of Justice Web 

site, http://www.usdoj.gov/enrd/ 

open.htm. A copy of the Amendment 

may also be obtained by mail from the 

Consent Decree Library, P.O. Box 7611, 

U.S. Department of Justice, Washington, 

DC 20044–7611 or by faxing or emailing a request to Tonia Fleetwood 

(tonia.fleetwood@usdoj.gov), fax no. 

(202) 514–0097, phone confirmation 

number (202) 514–1547. In requesting a 

copy from the Consent Decree Library, 

please enclose a check in the amount of 

$47.75 payable to the U.S. Treasury. In 

requesting a copy exclusive of exhibits 

and defendants’ signatures, please 

enclosed a check in the amount of $8.25 

payable to the U.S. Treasury. 

Robert Brook, 

Assistant Chief, Environmental Enforcement 

Section, Environment and Natural Resources 

Division. 

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