Notice of Proposed Settlement Agreement Under the Oil Pollution Act of 1990, 81520-81521 [2020-27679]

Download as PDF 81520 Federal Register / Vol. 85, No. 242 / Wednesday, December 16, 2020 / Notices DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE [OMB Number 1110–0060] Agency Information Collection Activities; Proposed eCollection eComments Requested; Revision of a Currently Approved Collection; Biographic Verification Form (1–791) Criminal Justice Information Services Division, Federal Bureau of Investigation Department of Justice. ACTION: 60-Day notice. AGENCY: Department of Justice (DOJ), Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Criminal Justice Information Services (CJIS) Division, will be submitting the following information collection request to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for review and approval in accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995. DATES: Comments are encouraged and will be accepted for 60 days until February 16, 2021. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: If you have additional comments especially on the estimated public burden or associated response time, suggestions, or need a copy of the proposed information collection instrument with instructions or additional information, please contact Gerry Lynn Brovey, Supervisory Information Liaison Specialist, FBI, CJIS, Resources Management Section, Administrative Unit, Module C–2, 1000 Custer Hollow Road, Clarksburg, West Virginia, 26306; phone: 304–625–4320 or email glbrovey@fbi.gov. Written comments and/or suggestions can also be sent to the Office of Management and Budget, Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, Attention Department of Justice Desk Officer, Washington, DC 20503. Additionally, comments may be submitted via email to OIRA_submission@omb.eop.gov. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Written comments and suggestions from the public and affected agencies concerning the proposed collection of information are encouraged. Your comments should address one or more of the following four points: —Evaluate whether the proposed collection of information is necessary for the proper performance of the functions of the Bureau of Justice Statistics, including whether the information will have practical utility; —Evaluate the accuracy of the agency’s estimate of the burden of the proposed collection of information, including the validity of the methodology and assumptions used; khammond on DSKJM1Z7X2PROD with NOTICES SUMMARY: VerDate Sep<11>2014 17:32 Dec 15, 2020 Jkt 253001 —Evaluate whether and if so how the quality, utility, and clarity of the information to be collected can be enhanced; and —Minimize the burden of the collection of information on those who are to respond, including through the use of appropriate automated, electronic, mechanical, or other technological collection techniques or other forms of information technology, e.g., permitting electronic submission of responses. Overview of This Information Collection (1) Type of Information Collection: Revision of a currently approved collection. (2) The Title of the Form/Collection: Biographic Verification Form. (3) The agency form number, if any, and the applicable component of the Department sponsoring the collection: The form number is 1–791. The applicable component within the Sponsoring component: Department of Justice, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Criminal Justice Information Services Division. (4) Affected public who will be asked or required to respond, as well as a brief abstract: Primary: Agencies authorized to submit applicant fingerprints into the Next Generation Identification (NGI) system for noncriminal justice purposes such as employment, benefits, and licensing. This form is completed to obtain a biographic verification (name check) for an applicant when the fingerprints have been rejected twice for quality to ensure eligible individuals are not denied employment, benefits, or licensing. (5) An estimate of the total number of respondents and the amount of time estimated for an average respondent to respond: It is estimated that 50,000 respondents will complete each form within approximately 8 minutes. (6) An estimate of the total public burden (in hours) associated with the collection: There are an estimated 6,700 total annual burden hours associated with this collection. If additional information is required contact: Melody Braswell, Department Clearance Officer, United States Department of Justice, Justice Management Division, Policy and Planning Staff, Two Constitution Square, 145 N Street NE, 3E.405A, Washington, DC 20530. PO 00000 Frm 00079 Fmt 4703 Sfmt 4703 Dated: December 11, 2020. Melody Braswell, Department Clearance Officer for PRA, U.S. Department of Justice. [FR Doc. 2020–27643 Filed 12–15–20; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 4410–02–P DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE Notice of Proposed Settlement Agreement Under the Oil Pollution Act of 1990 Notice is hereby given that the United States of America, on behalf of the Department of the Interior (‘‘DOI’’), acting through the Fish and Wildlife Service, and the State of Indiana, on behalf of the Indiana Department of Natural Resources and the Indiana Department of Environmental Management, (collectively ‘‘Trustees’’), are providing an opportunity for public comment on a proposed Settlement Agreement among the United States, Indiana, and Marathon Pipe Line, LLC (‘‘Marathon’’). The Settlement Agreement resolves the United States’ and Indiana’s claims under the Oil Pollution Act of 1990 (‘‘OPA’’), 33 U.S.C. 2701 et seq., for injury to natural resources resulting from two oil spills from Marathon pipelines in different parts of the state of Indiana. The first spill occurred on March 20, 2018, when approximately 1,400 barrels (58,800 gallons) of low sulfur diesel fuel was discharged from a Marathon pipeline into Big Creek, near Solitude, Posey County, Indiana (‘‘Big Creek Spill’’). The second spill, on April 2, 2019, involved the release of an estimated 300 barrels (12,600 gallons) of natural gasoline from an 8-inch product pipeline owned by Marathon near Knightsville, Clay County, Indiana, impacting soil and a tributary of Billy Creek (‘‘Knightsville Spill’’). The Settlement Agreement requires Marathon to pay $412,780.15 to the DOI Natural Resource Damage Assessment and Restoration Fund. This amount will reimburse past assessment costs and fund the development and implementation of restoration plans to restore, replace, rehabilitate, or acquire the equivalent of those resources injured by the two spills and to compensate the public for any lost recreational opportunities. Marathon will receive from the Trustees a covenant not to sue under OPA or other statutes for natural resource damages caused by the Spills, including damage assessment costs. The publication of this notice opens a period for public comment on the proposed Settlement Agreement. Comments should be addressed to E:\FR\FM\16DEN1.SGM 16DEN1 Federal Register / Vol. 85, No. 242 / Wednesday, December 16, 2020 / Notices Daniel W. Sparks, and should refer to: Marathon Settlement Agreement. All comments must be submitted no later than thirty (30) days after the publication date of this notice. Comments may be submitted either by email or by mail: To submit comments: Send them to: By email ....... By mail ......... daniel_sparks@fws.gov. Daniel W. Sparks, Senior Fish and Wildlife Biologist, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, 620 S Walker St., Bloomington, IN 47403. During the public comment period, the Settlement Agreement may be examined and downloaded at this website: https://www.fws.gov/midwest/ es/ec/nrda/BigCreekIndiana/ Index.html#AdminRecord. We will provide a paper copy of the Settlement Agreement upon written request and payment of reproduction costs. Please mail your request and payment to: Assistant Solicitor, Environmental Restoration Branch, Office of the Solicitor, U.S. Department of the Interior, 1849 C Street NW, MS 6318, Washington, DC 20240. Please enclose a check or money order for $2.50 (25 cents per page reproduction cost) payable to the United States Treasury. Patricia McKenna, Assistant Section Chief, Environmental Enforcement Section, Environment and Natural Resources Division. [FR Doc. 2020–27679 Filed 12–15–20; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 4410–15–P DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE khammond on DSKJM1Z7X2PROD with NOTICES Notice of Lodging of Proposed Second Amendment to Consent Decree Under the Clean Water Act On December 11, 2020, the Department of Justice lodged a proposed Second Amendment to Consent Decree (‘‘Second Amendment’’) with the United States District Court for the Northern District of Ohio in the lawsuit entitled United States and the State of Ohio v. Northeast Ohio Regional Sewer District, Civil Action No. 1:10–cv– 02895. The United States, on behalf of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, and the State of Ohio, on behalf of the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency (‘‘Ohio EPA’’), filed a complaint under the Clean Water Act asserting claims related to discharges from the Northeast Ohio Regional Sewer District’s (‘‘NEORSD’’) municipal wastewater and VerDate Sep<11>2014 17:32 Dec 15, 2020 Jkt 253001 sewer system. The United States sought civil penalties and injunctive relief. On July 7, 2011, the Court entered a Consent Decree that required that NEORSD implement injunctive measures and required payment of civil penalties. The injunctive relief in the Consent Decree requires, inter alia, that the District undertake an extensive program of improvements in its combined sewer overflow control infrastructure and that it significantly expand the capacity of its three wastewater treatment plants in order to increase the ability of the plants to treat increased sewer flows during wet weather. The proposed Second Amendment relates primarily to work that remains to be completed at the Southerly and Westerly wastewater treatment plants (Control Measures 5 and 3 specified in Appendix 1) and proposed changes to the structure of the improvements required by Control Measures 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 20, 21, 22, and 24 of Appendix 1. The proposed modifications are reflected in changes to the language of the Consent Decree, Appendix 1, and Appendix 2. With regard to Southerly, the Consent Decree required two significant upgrades to increase the Southerly plant’s peak wet weather capacity: Construction of a 125 MGD CEHRT facility and expansion of secondary treatment capacity from 400 MGD to 615 MGD. To address the District’s concerns about constructability and operability of the required expansion of secondary treatment capacity, the proposed modification instead requires the expansion of the secondary system to 480 MGD and an expansion of the capacity of the CEHRT to 255 MGD. With regard to Westerly, the Consent Decree, in Control Measure 3 of Appendix 1, requires the District to modify and expand an existing wet weather storage and sedimentation facility (the ‘‘CSOTF’’) to provide CEHRT treatment for flows up to 411 MGD. The Parties recognized after entry of the Consent Decree that site space constraints, upstream hydraulic limitations, and the potential for CEHRT infrastructure flooding requires the occasional use of a center channel diversion in such a manner that limits the District’s ability to treat 411 MGD at all times and therefore propose to address the limitations of the CEHRT treatment capacity by detailing the infrastructure to be constructed and circumstances under which the use of the center channel diversion is allowed to be used. Appendix 2 of the Consent Decree presents the requirements for post- PO 00000 Frm 00080 Fmt 4703 Sfmt 9990 81521 construction monitoring of the control measures that the District is required to implement. For both Southerly and Westerly CEHRT systems, the Parties decided to add to Appendix 2 detailed descriptions of the processes and methods for conducting postconstruction monitoring of the CEHRT systems instead of those details being addressed through a separate deliverable submitted by the District and subject to Plaintiffs’ review and approval. The proposed modification also updates the Notice requirements of the Consent Decree and makes replacements to Paragraph 18 of the Consent Decree based on the Southerly and Westerly modifications described above. The publication of this notice opens a period for public comment on the Second Amendment. Comments should be addressed to the Assistant Attorney General, Environment and Natural Resources Division, and should refer to United States and the State of Ohio v. Northeast Ohio Regional Sewer District, D.J. Ref. No. 90–5–1–1–08177/1. All comments must be submitted no later than thirty (30) days after the publication date of this notice. Comments may be submitted either by email or by mail: To submit comments: Send them to: By email ....... pubcomment-ees.enrd@ usdoj.gov. Assistant Attorney General, U.S. DOJ—ENRD, P.O. Box 7611, Washington, DC 20044–7611. By mail ......... During the public comment period, the Second Amendment may be examined and downloaded at this Justice Department website: https:// www.justice.gov/enrd/consent-decrees. We will provide a paper copy of the Second Amendment upon written request and payment of reproduction costs. Please mail your request and payment to: Consent Decree Library, U.S. DOJ—ENRD, P.O. Box 7611, Washington, DC 20044–7611. Please enclose a check or money order for $ 59.00 (25 cents per page reproduction cost) payable to the United States Treasury. Patricia McKenna, Assistant Section Chief, Environmental Enforcement Section, Environment and Natural Resources Division. [FR Doc. 2020–27680 Filed 12–15–20; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 4410–15–P E:\FR\FM\16DEN1.SGM 16DEN1

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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE


Notice of Proposed Settlement Agreement Under the Oil Pollution 
Act of 1990

    Notice is hereby given that the United States of America, on behalf 
of the Department of the Interior (``DOI''), acting through the Fish 
and Wildlife Service, and the State of Indiana, on behalf of the 
Indiana Department of Natural Resources and the Indiana Department of 
Environmental Management, (collectively ``Trustees''), are providing an 
opportunity for public comment on a proposed Settlement Agreement among 
the United States, Indiana, and Marathon Pipe Line, LLC (``Marathon'').
    The Settlement Agreement resolves the United States' and Indiana's 
claims under the Oil Pollution Act of 1990 (``OPA''), 33 U.S.C. 2701 et 
seq., for injury to natural resources resulting from two oil spills 
from Marathon pipelines in different parts of the state of Indiana. The 
first spill occurred on March 20, 2018, when approximately 1,400 
barrels (58,800 gallons) of low sulfur diesel fuel was discharged from 
a Marathon pipeline into Big Creek, near Solitude, Posey County, 
Indiana (``Big Creek Spill''). The second spill, on April 2, 2019, 
involved the release of an estimated 300 barrels (12,600 gallons) of 
natural gasoline from an 8-inch product pipeline owned by Marathon near 
Knightsville, Clay County, Indiana, impacting soil and a tributary of 
Billy Creek (``Knightsville Spill'').
    The Settlement Agreement requires Marathon to pay $412,780.15 to 
the DOI Natural Resource Damage Assessment and Restoration Fund. This 
amount will reimburse past assessment costs and fund the development 
and implementation of restoration plans to restore, replace, 
rehabilitate, or acquire the equivalent of those resources injured by 
the two spills and to compensate the public for any lost recreational 
opportunities. Marathon will receive from the Trustees a covenant not 
to sue under OPA or other statutes for natural resource damages caused 
by the Spills, including damage assessment costs.
    The publication of this notice opens a period for public comment on 
the proposed Settlement Agreement. Comments should be addressed to

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Daniel W. Sparks, and should refer to: Marathon Settlement Agreement. 
All comments must be submitted no later than thirty (30) days after the 
publication date of this notice. Comments may be submitted either by 
email or by mail:

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         To submit comments:                     Send them to:
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By email............................  [email protected].
By mail.............................  Daniel W. Sparks, Senior Fish and
                                       Wildlife Biologist, U.S. Fish and
                                       Wildlife Service, 620 S Walker
                                       St., Bloomington, IN 47403.
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    During the public comment period, the Settlement Agreement may be 
examined and downloaded at this website: https://www.fws.gov/midwest/es/ec/nrda/BigCreekIndiana/#AdminRecord. We will provide a 
paper copy of the Settlement Agreement upon written request and payment 
of reproduction costs. Please mail your request and payment to: 
Assistant Solicitor, Environmental Restoration Branch, Office of the 
Solicitor, U.S. Department of the Interior, 1849 C Street NW, MS 6318, 
Washington, DC 20240.
    Please enclose a check or money order for $2.50 (25 cents per page 
reproduction cost) payable to the United States Treasury.

Patricia McKenna,
Assistant Section Chief, Environmental Enforcement Section, Environment 
and Natural Resources Division.
[FR Doc. 2020-27679 Filed 12-15-20; 8:45 am]
BILLING CODE 4410-15-P

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