[Federal Register Volume 72, Number 60 (Thursday, March 29, 2007)]
[Notices]
[Pages 14830-14831]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 07-1527]


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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE


Notice of Lodging of Consent Decree Under the Comprehensive 
Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980

    Notice is hereby given that on March 15, 2007 a proposed consent 
decree in United States v. Charles E. Carlson, Front Range Royalties, 
Ltd., and Frontenac Mining, Ltd., Civil Action No. 06-cv-00275-WYD-MEH 
was lodged with the United States District Court for the District of 
Colorado.
    In this action the United States brought claims under Sections 107 
and 113(g) of the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, 
and Liability Act of 1980 (``CERCLA''), as amended, 42 U.S.C. 9607 and 
9613(g), seeking the recovery of costs incurred and to be incurred by 
the Environmental Protection Agency (``EPA'') in response to releases 
or threatened releases of hazardous substances at and from the property 
owned by the Defendants within the Clear Creek Superfund Site, in 
Gilpin County, Colorado. The ability-to-pay consent decree resolves 
claims related to acidic drainage and metals loading into Clear Creek 
resulting from past mining operations on property owned by the 
defendants. The consent decree, among other things, provides EPA with 
access to and use of the defendants' property for remedial purposes and 
requires defendants to sell certain properties and to remit to EPA a 
percentage of the net sale proceeds up to the judgment amount of up to 
$200,000.
    The Department of Justice will receive for a period of thirty (30) 
days from the date of this publication comments relating to the consent 
decree. Comments should be addressed to the Assistant Attorney General, 
Environment and Natural Resources Division, and either e-mailed to 
[email protected] or mailed to P.O. Box 7611, U.S. 
Department of Justice, Washington, DC 20044-7611, and should refer to 
United States v. Charles E. Carlson, Front Range Royalties, Ltd., and 
Frontenac Mining, Ltd., Civil Action No. 06-cv-00275-WYD-MEH, D.J. Ref. 
90-11-3-08439.
    The consent decree may be examined at the U.S. Environmental 
Protection Agency, Region 8, 1595 Wynkoop Street, Denver, CO 80202-
1129. During the public comment period, the consent decree, may also be 
examined on the following Department of Justice Web site, to http://
www.usdoj.gov/enrd/

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Consent--Decrees.html. A copy of the consent decree 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) 514-1547. In 
requesting a copy from the Consent Decree Library, please enclose a 
check in the amount of $7.50, or $11 with attachments (25 cents per 
page reproduction cost), payable to the U.S. Treasury or, if by e-mail 
or fax, forward a check in that amount to the Consent Decree Library at 
the stated address.

Robert D. Brook,
Assistant Chief, Environmental Enforcement Section, Environment and 
Natural Resources Division.
[FR Doc. 07-1527 Filed 3-28-07; 8:45 am]
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