[Federal Register Volume 62, Number 114 (Friday, June 13, 1997)] [Notices] [Pages 32369-32370] From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov] [FR Doc No: 97-15498] ======================================================================= ----------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 v. Allied Signal, Inc., Civil Action No. TH 97 154 CTF, was lodged on May 28, 1997, with the United States District Court for the Southern District of Indiana. The United States filed this action pursuant to Sections 106 and 107 of the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (``CERCLA''), 42 U.S.C. Secs. 9606 and 9607, to secure the performance of a remedial action and to recover past and future response costs incurred at or in connection with the Prestolite Battery Site in Vincennes, Indiana. The Consent Decree requires defendant Allied Signal to perform the remedial action for the site selected by the United States Environmental Protection Agency in a December, 1994 Record of Decision; to reimburse the United States $950,000 for response costs incurred between March 31, 1993, and January 31, 1996; and to reimburse the United States for all future response costs incurred in connection with the Prestolite Site. The remedial action selected by EPA provides for natural attenuation of the contaminants in groundwater beneath the site, institutional controls to prevent access to the contamination, and short and long-term monitoring of the contamination. 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 decrees. Comments should be [[Page 32370]] 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., DOJ Ref. #90-11-3-539B. The proposed consent decree may be examined at the office of the United States Attorney, Southern District of Indiana, United States Courthouse, 5th Floor, 46 East Ohio Street, Indianapolis, Indiana 46204-1986; the Region 5 Office of the Environmental Protection Agency, 77 West Jackson Boulevard, Chicago, Illinois, 60604; 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 a copy please refer to the referenced case and enclose a check in the amount of $28.00 (25 cents per page reproduction costs) for each decree and associated appendices, payable to the Consent Decree Library. Joel M. Gross, Chief, Environmental Enforcement Section, Environmental and Natural Resources Division. [FR Doc. 97-15498 Filed 6-12-97; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 4410-15-M