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

[Federal Register Volume 64, Number 206 (Tuesday, October 26, 1999)]
[Notices]
[Pages 57653-57654]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 99-27901]


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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 consent decree in United States v. 
General Battery Corporation, et al., Civil Action No. 85-1372 (E.D. 
Pa.) was lodged with the court on September 14, 1999.
    The proposed decree resolves claims of the United States against 
two parties to the action, M. Glosser & Sons, Inc. and Barbara Brown 
DiMenichi, under sections 106 and 107 of the Comprehensive 
Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act, as amended 
(``CERCLA''), 42 U.S.C. 9606 and 9607, for response costs and actions 
at the Brown's Battery Breaking Superfund site in Tilden Township, 
Pennsylvania. The decree also resolves claims brought against the same 
parties by General Battery Corporation. The decree requires M. Glosser 
& Sons to pay, in reimbursement of response costs, $130,000 to the 
United States and $360,000 to General Battery Corporation. The decree 
requires Barbara Brown DiMenichi to reimburse $30,000 in response costs 
to the United States and to assign certain insurance policies to 
General Battery Corporation.
    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, DC 20530, and should refer to United 
States v. General Battery Corporation, et al., Civil Action No. 85-
1372, DOJ Ref. # 90-11-3-76.
    The proposed consent decree may be examined and copied at the 
Office of the United States Attorney, 615 Chestnut Street, Suite 1250, 
Philadelphia, PA 19106; or at the Region III Office of the 
Environmental Protection Agency, c/o Michael Hendershott, Assistant 
Regional Counsel, 1650 Arch Street, Philadelphia, PA 19103. A copy of 
the proposed consent decree may be obtained by mail from the Consent 
Decree Library, P.O. Box No. 7611,

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Washington, DC 20044. In requesting a copy, please refer to the 
referenced case and enclose a check in the amount of $10.50 (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. 99-27901 Filed 10-25-99; 8:45 am]
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