[Federal Register Volume 62, Number 198 (Tuesday, October 14, 1997)]
[Notices]
[Pages 53335-53336]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 97-26788]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

Fish and Wildlife Service


Notice of Availability of the Assessment Plan: Grant Calumet 
River, Indiana Harbor Ship Canal, Indiana Harbor and Associated Lake 
Michigan Environments

AGENCY: Fish and Wildlife Service, Interior.

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: Notice is given that the document titled ``Assessment Plan for 
the Natural Resource Damage Assessment of the Grand Calumet River, 
Indiana Harbor Ship Canal, Indiana Harbor and Associated Lake Michigan 
Environments'' (``The Plan'') will be available for public review and 
comment on the date of publication in the Federal Register. The U.S. 
Department of the Interior, and The State of Indiana (``trustees'') are 
trustees for natural resources considered in this assessment, pursuant 
to subpart G of the National Oil and Hazardous Substances Pollution 
Contingency Plan. 40 CFR

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300.600 and 300.610, and Executive Order 12580.
    The trustees are following the guidance of the Natural Resource 
Damage Assessment Regulations found at 43 CFR Part 11. The public 
review of the Plan announced by this Notice is provided for in 43 CFR 
11.32(c).
    Interested members of the public are invited to review and comment 
on the Plan. Copies of the Plan can be requested from the address 
listed below. All written comments will be considered by the trustees 
and included in the Report of Assessment, at the conclusion of the 
assessment process.

DATES: Written comments on the Plan must be submitted by November 13, 
1997.

ADDRESSES: Requests for copies of the Plan may be made to:

Supervisor, Ecological Services Office, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, 
620 S. Walker Street, Bloomington, Indiana 47403.

or:

Ms. Elizabeth Admire, Indiana Department of Environmental Management, 
100 N. Senate Avenue, P.O. Box 6015, Indianapolis, Indiana 46206-6015.

    Comments on the Plan should be sent to the the Indiana Department 
of Environmental Management at the address listed above. The trustees 
will coordinate comment review.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The trustees are undertaking an assessment 
of damages resulting from the suspected injury to natural resources of 
the Grand Calumet River, Indiana Harbor Ship Canal, Indiana Harbor and 
Associated Lake Michigan Environments which have been exposed to 
hazardous substances released by area steel mills, refineries and other 
potential sources. It is suspected that this exposure has caused injury 
and resultant damages to trustee resources. The injury and resultant 
damages will be assessed under the Comprehensive Environmental 
Response, Compensation, and Liability Act, as amended, and the Clean 
Water Act, as amended. The Plan addresses the trustees' overall 
assessment approach and utilizes existing data. Plan addenda may be 
prepared by the trustees to provide public notice of additional data 
collection activities.
William F. Hartwig,
Regional Director, Region 3, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.
[FR Doc. 97-26788 Filed 10-10-97; 8:45 am]
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