[Federal Register Volume 71, Number 50 (Wednesday, March 15, 2006)]
[Notices]
[Page 13433]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 06-2512]



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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE


Notice of Settlement Agreement Under the Park System Resources 
Protection Act

    Under 28 CFR 50.7, notice is hereby given of a proposed settlement 
agreement, In Re: NTS/Virginia Development Corporation, for the 
recovery of damages by the Department of the Interior (``DOI''), under 
the Park System Resources Protection Act, 16 U.S.C. 19jj.
    The proposed settlement agreement resolves claims against NTS/
Virginia Development Corporation with respect to certain Civil War era 
earthworks that are part of the Fredericksburg and Spotsylvania 
National Military Park, a unit of the National Park System, in 
Spotsylvania County, Virginia. DOI alleges that in an ``Incident'' on 
or about July 11, 2001, a maintenance worker employed by NTS/Virginia 
drove a small tracked BobCat over the earthworks, creating ruts and 
damaging the earthworks.
    Under the proposed settlement agreement, NTS/Virginia will pay 
$88,351 for costs and damages. In exchange, DOI will provide a covenant 
not to sue NTS/Virginia for the incident. DOI intends to use a portion 
of the settlement funds to define, through accepted archaeological 
methodology, the scope and condition of Wilderness Cemetery No. 2, and 
would use at least $30,821 of the settlement funds to further develop 
and complete certain interpretive trail facilities along the Orange 
Plank Corridor in the Wilderness Battlefield.
    The Department of Justice will receive, for a period of thirty 
(j30) days from the date of this publication, comments relating to the 
proposed settlement agreement. Comments should be addressed to the 
Assistant Attorney General, Environment and Natural Resources Division, 
P.O. Box 7611, U.S. Department of Justice, Washington, DC 20044-7611, 
and should refer to In Re: NTS/Virginia Development Corporation, DOJ 
Ref. 90-5-1-1-08788.
    During the public comment period, the proposed settlement agreement 
may be examined on the following Department of Justice Web site: http://www.usdoj.gov/enrd/open.html. A copy of the proposed settlement 
agreement 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, 
[email protected], Fax No. (202) 514-0097, phone confirmation 
number (202) 512-1547. In requesting a copy from the Consent Decree 
Library, please enclose a check in the amount of $1.75 (25 cents per 
page reproduction cost) payable to the U.S. Treasury, to obtain a copy 
of the settlement agreement.

Robert Brook,
Assistant Section Chief, Environmental Enforcement Section, Environment 
and Natural Resources Division.
[FR Doc. 06-2512 Filed 3-14-06; 8:45 am]
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