[Federal Register Volume 63, Number 145 (Wednesday, July 29, 1998)]
[Notices]
[Pages 40541-40542]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 98-20259]


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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE


Notice of Preliminary Approval of Settlement Agreement

    In accordance with 28 CFR 50.7(b), notice is hereby given that a 
proposed

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Settlement Agreement in Sarah Yules v. United States of America, Civil 
Action No. 95-10256-WGY (D. Mass.), was preliminarily approved by the 
United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts on June 
19, 1998. Final approval of the proposed Settlement Agreement is 
subject to the requirements of 28 CFR 50.7.
    In this case, Plaintiffs Sarah Yules and Sandra Faxon, acting for 
themselves and on behalf of proposed class of persons in the Town of 
Mashpee, Massachusetts, whose drinking water supplies had been 
contaminated or threatened by pollutants allegedly emanating from the 
Massachusetts Military Reservation, Barnstable County, Massachusetts 
(``MMR''), filed suit in 1995 against, among others, the United States 
Department of Defense and the United States National Guard Bureau 
(``the federal defendants''). The suit asserted claims under the 
Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act, 
the Resource Recovery and Conservation Act, the Federal Clean Water 
Act, the Federal Tort Claims Act, and state law. Plaintiffs sought, 
among other things, an injunction requiring the federal defendants to 
abate any endangerment caused by the alleged discharge of pollutants 
from the MMR by connecting class members to the public water supply.
    The United States and Plaintiffs have now reached agreement on the 
terms of a settlement of the claims in this case. The Department of 
Justice will receive written comments on the proposed Settlement 
Agreement for a period of 30 days from the date of publication of this 
notice. Comments should be addressed to Joshua E. Swift, U.S. 
Department of Justice, Environment & Natural Resources Division, 
Environmental Defense Section, P.O. Box 23986, Washington, DC 20026, 
and refer to Sarah Yules v. United States of America, Civil Action No. 
95-10246-WGY (D. Mass.), DJ# 90-11-3-1506.
    The Settlement Agreement may be examined at the Clerk's Office, 
United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts, 90 
Devonshire Street, Room 607, Boston, Massachusetts (617-223-9152), or 
at the offices of Plaintiffs' counsel, Shapiro, Haber & Urmy, 75 State 
Street, Boston, Massachusetts (617-439-3939).
Letitia J. Grishaw,
Chief, Environmental Defense Section, Environmental & Natural Resources 
Division.
[FR Doc. 98-20259 Filed 7-28-98; 8:45 am]
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