[Federal Register Volume 61, Number 106 (Friday, May 31, 1996)]
[Notices]
[Pages 27367-27368]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 96-13623]



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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE


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

    Pursuant to Section 122(d)(2) of the Comprehensive Environmental 
Response, Compensation and Liability Act (``CERCLA''), 42 U.S.C. 
9622(d)(2), and Departmental policy, 28 C.F.R. Sec. 50.7, notice is 
hereby given that a proposed consent decree in United States v. Allied 
Signal, Inc., et al., Civil Action No. 95-617P, was lodged on November 
28, 1995 with the United States District Court for the District of 
Rhode Island. Additional parties were allowed to join the Consent 
Decree, and thirty-six additional defendants join the Decree in a 
filing with the court on May 7, 1996. Defendants Allied Signal, Inc.; 
American Cyanamid Company; Ashland Chemical Company; Elf Atochem North 
America, Inc. (M & T Chemical, Inc.); GAF Corporation; General Electric 
Company; Hydron Laboratories Inc.; Mallinckrodt & Baker, Inc. (J.T. 
Baker, Inc.); Monsanto Company; Morton International, Inc., Allied 
Signal, Inc.; American Cyanamid Company; Ashland Chemical Company; Elf 
Atochem North America, Inc.; GAF Corporation; General Electric Company; 
Hydron Laboratories, Inc.; Mallinckrodt Baker, Inc.; Monsanto Company; 
Morton International, Inc.; Air Products and Chemical, Inc.; American 
Standard, Inc.; Armstrong World Industries, Inc.; Bayer Corporation 
(fka Miles Inc.); Ber Mar Manufacturing Corp.; Borden, Inc.; Branson 
Ultrasonics Corp.; Burndy Corporation (currently, Framatone Connectors 
USA Inc.); Ciba-Geigy Corporation; Connecticut Hard Rubber Co./Chr 
Industries, Inc.; Eaton Corporation; Ganes Chemicals Inc.; Grumman 
Corp. & Grumman Aerospace Company, Inc.; Hoechst Celanese Corporation; 
King Industries, Inc.; Kraft Foods, Inc. (On behalf of General Foods

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USA); Kraft Foods, Inc. (On behalf of Ware Chemical); the Mennen 
Company, Inc.; Merck & Co., Inc.; Mine Safety Appliances Company; 
Minnesota Mining & Manufacturing Company; NL Industries, Inc.; National 
Starch and Chemical Company; Occidental Chemical Corporation (as 
successor to Diamond Shamrock Chemicals Inc.); The Perkin-Elmer 
Corporation; Pfizer Inc; Pitney Bowes, Inc.; Reichold Chemicals, Inc.; 
Revlon Consumer Products Corporation; Schenectady International, Inc.; 
E.R. Squibb & Sons, Inc.; Textron, Inc. (Patterson-Sargent); Union 
Carbide Corporation; The Upjohn Company; R.T. Vanderbilt Company, Inc.; 
and Wyeth Laboratories, Inc., are all generators of wastes containing 
hazardous substances which were disposed of at the Picillo Farm 
Superfund Site in Coventry, Rhode Island.
    Under the terms of the proposed decree, defendants will perform 
and/or pay for certain remedial design/remedial action work involving 
soil source control and management of groundwater mitigation. The work 
to be undertaken and/or paid for by defendants is valued by the United 
States Environmental Protection Agency at $15.9 million. The proposed 
decree includes a covenant not to sue by the United States under 
Sections 106 and 107 of CERCLA, 42 U.S.C. Secs. 9601 et seq., and under 
Section 7003 of the Resources Conservation and Recovery Act (``RCRA''), 
42 U.S.C. 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. 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 v. Allied Signal, Inc., et al., D.J. reference #90-11-2-
985. Commenters may request an opportunity for a public meeting in the 
affected area, in accordance with Section 7003(d) of RCRA.
    The proposed consent decree may be examined at the Office of the 
United States Attorney for the District of Rhode Island, Westminster 
Square Building, 10 Dorrance Street, 10th Floor, Providence, Rhode 
Island; the Region I Office of the Environmental Protection Agency, 290 
Canal Street, Boston, Massachusetts; 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. In requesting a copy, please enclose a check in the 
amount of $2.75 (25 cents per page reproduction costs), payable to the 
Consent Decree Library.
Joel M. Gross,
Chief, Environmental Enforcement Section, Environment and Natural 
Resources Division.
[FR Doc. 96-13623 Filed 5-30-96; 8:45 am]
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