[Federal Register Volume 67, Number 13 (Friday, January 18, 2002)]
[Notices]
[Pages 2670-2671]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 02-1297]


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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE


Notice of Lodging of Consent Decree Resolving U.S. v. IBP Inc. 
(D. Nebraska)

    Notice is hereby given that the United States, on behalf of the 
United States Environmental Protection Agency (``EPA''), intends, on or 
before February 4, 2002, to move for entry of the Consent Decree lodged 
with the United States District Court for the District of Nebraska on 
October 12, 2001. This Consent Decree, together with the Partial 
Consent Decree for Interim Injunctive Relief previously entered in this 
case, will fully resolve the United States' Complaint filed on January 
12, 2000, in the District of Nebraska, alleging violations by IBP, inc. 
[sic] (``IBP'') of the Clean Air Act, 42 U.S.C. 7401 et seq.; the Clean 
Water Act, 33 U.S.C. 1311 et seq.; the Resource Conservation and 
Recovery Act, 42 U.S.C. 6901 et seq.; the Comprehensive Environmental 
Response, Compensation and Liability Act, 42 U.S.C. 9601 et seq.; and 
the Emergency Planning and Community Right-To-Know Act, 42 U.S.C. 11001 
et seq., at its Dakota City Nebraska slaughterhouse facility.
    Notice of the lodging of the Consent Decree was previously 
published in the Federal Register on November 15, 2001 (Volume 66, 
Number 221, Page 57484), triggering a thirty-day public comment period 
that expired on December 15, 2001. One set of comments was received 
during this period by facsimile transmission on December 12, 2001, from 
a Nebraska group called Citizens Promoting Environmental Stewardship, 
to which the United States will respond in connection with its motion 
to enter the Consent Decree. However, as a result of the discovery of 
anthrax contamination at the District of Columbia mail processing 
center, the delivery of regular first-class mail sent through the U.S. 
Postal Service has been disrupted. Consequently, any additional public 
comments on the proposed Consent Decree that were timely sent to

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the Department of Justice in Washington, DC, by regular, first-class 
mail through the U.S. Postal Service, but not sent by additional means 
such as overnight or facsimile transmission, have not been received. 
This notice, therefore, is intended to advise any such commenters that 
their comments on the Proposed Consent Decree have not been received to 
date. Any previously submitted comments thus should be re-submitted by 
January 31, 2002, addressed to the Assistant Attorney General, 
Environment and Natural Resources Division, Department of Justice, and 
sent: (1) c/o Howard Bunch, Office of Regional Counsel, U.S. 
Environmental Protection Agency, Region VII, 901 N. 5th St., Kansas 
City, Kansas 66101 and/or (2) by facsimile to (202) 353-0296; and/or 
(3) by overnight delivery, other than through the U.S. Postal Service, 
to Chief, Environmental Enforcement Section, 1425 New York Avenue, NW., 
13th Floor, Washington, DC 20005. Each communication should refer on 
its face to United States v. IBP, DOJ Ref. #90-11-3-06517/1. Any such 
re-submitted comments will be evaluated and responded to prior to any 
final decision by the United States to move to enter the Consent 
Decree.

Robert E. Maher,
Assistant Section Chief, Environmental Enforcement Section, Environment 
and Natural Resources Division.
[FR Doc. 02-1297 Filed 1-17-02; 8:45 am]
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