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[Federal Register: October 12, 2007 (Volume 72, Number 197)]
[Notices]               
[Page 58125]
From the Federal Register Online via GPO Access [wais.access.gpo.gov]
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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 proposed consent decree in United 
States v. City of Hastings, et al., Civil Action No. 8:07-cv-00365-LES-
FG3 was lodged on September 14, 2007 with the United States District 
Court for the District of Nebraska. The United States filed this action 
pursuant to the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and 
Liability Act seeking clean up of groundwater contamination and 
recovery of costs incurred at the North Landfill Subsite (``Subsite''), 
one of the six subsites of the Hastings Ground Water Contamination 
Superfund Site located in Adams County, Nebraska.
    The Consent Decree resolves the United States' claims by requiring 
the defendants the City of Hastings, Dravo Corporation, and Dutton-
Lainson Company to implement the final remedial design/remedial action 
for the ground water operable unit and to pay the United States' past 
and future costs related to the Subsite. Under the Decree, the U.S. 
Navy will make an initial payment to the defendants of $250,000 and 
after the clean up is completed, pay the defendants 25% of their 
Response Costs in excess of $1,000,000.
    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, Environment and Natural Resources Division, and 
either e-mailed to pubcomment-ees.enrd@usdoj.gov or mailed to P.O. Box 
7611, U.S. Department of Justice, Washington, DC 20044-7611, and should 
refer to United States v. City of Hastings, et al. DOJ Ref. 
90-11-2-1260/7.
    The proposed consent decree may be examined at the office of the 
United States Attorney, 1620 Dodge Street, Omaha, Nebraska 68102, and 
at the Region VII Office of the Environmental Protection Agency, 901 
North Fifth Street, Kansas City, Kansas 66101. During the public 
comment period, the proposed consent decree may also be examined on the 
Department of Justice Web site, at http://www.usdoj.gov/enrd/Consent_Decrees.html.
 A copy of the proposed 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 
number (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 $42.25 (or $12.00, for a copy that omits the 
exhibits and signature pages) (25 cents per page reproduction cost) 
payable to the U.S. Treasury or, if by e-mail or fax, forward a check 
in that amount to the Consent Decree Library at the stated address.

Robert E. Maher, Jr.
Assistant Section Chief, Environmental Enforcement Section, Environment 
and Natural Resources Division.
[FR Doc. 07-5030 Filed 10-11-07; 8:45 am]

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