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

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[Federal Register: July 17, 2003 (Volume 68, Number 137)]
[Notices]
[Page 42425-42426]
From the Federal Register Online via GPO Access [wais.access.gpo.gov]
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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE
 
Notice of Lodging of a Consent Decree Pursuant to the 
Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act

    Notice is hereby given that a proposed consent decree in United 
States and State of California v. Oil & Solvent Process Company, 
Chemical Waste Management, Inc., Fairchild Holding Corporation, and 
R.H. Peterson Company., Consolidated Cases CV 98-0760, CV 97-8230, CV 
96-6634 TJH was lodged on July 3, 2003, with the United States District 
Court for Central District of California. The proposed Consent Decree 
would resolve claims against Fairchild Holding Corporation under 
sections 106 & 107 of the Comprehensive Environmental Response, 
Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980, 42 U.S.C. 9606 & 9607, as 
amended, for response costs incurred by the Environmental Protection 
Agency in connection with the release of hazardous substances at the 
San Gabriel Valley Superfund Sites, Suburban Operable Unit (``Site'') 
in Los Angeles, California. Under the proposed Consent Decree, the 
Settling Defendant will pay $750,000, of which $37,500 will be paid to 
the State of California and $712,500 will be paid to the Hazardous 
Substances Superfund to reimburse the United States for response costs 
incurred and to be incurred at the Site.
    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, PO Box 7611, Washington, DC 20044-7611, and 
should refer to United States and State of California v. Oil & Solvent 
Process Company, Chemical Waste Management, Inc., Fairchild Holding 
Corporation, and R.H. Peterson Company., Consolidated Cases: CV 98-
0760, CV 97-8230, CV 96-6634 TJH, DOJ Ref. # 90-11-3-1691.
    The Consent Decree may be examined at the Region 9 Office of the 
Environmental Protection Agency, 75 Hawthorne Street, San Francisco, CA 
94105 and the United States Attorney's Office for the Central District 
of California, Federal Building, 300 North Los Angeles Street, Los 
Angeles, California 90012 c/o Assistant United States Attorney Suzette 
Clover. A copy of the consent decree may also be obtained by mail from 
the Consent Decree Library, Post Office 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) 514-1547. In requesting a copy from the 
Consent Decree Library, please enclose a check in the amount of $12.00 
(25 cents per page reproduction

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costs), payable to the United States Treasury.

W. Benjamin Fisherow,
Deputy Chief, Environmental Enforcement Section, Environment and 
Natural Resources Division.
[FR Doc. 03-18048 Filed 7-16-03; 8:45 am]
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