[Federal Register Volume 73, Number 29 (Tuesday, February 12, 2008)]
[Notices]
[Pages 8064-8065]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E8-2547]


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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE


Notice of Lodging of Consent Decree Under the Comprehensive 
Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (``CERCLA'')

    Under the policy set out at 28 CFR 50.7, notice is hereby given 
that on February 7, 2008, the United States lodged with the United 
States District Court for the District of Montana a proposed consent 
decree (``Consent Decree'') in the case of United States v. Atlantic 
Richfield Company, et al., Civil Action No. CV-89-39-BU-SEH. The 
Consent Decree pertains primarily to the Clark Fork River Operable Unit 
(the ``Clark Fork Site'') in southwestern Montana. The settlement would 
resolve the claims brought by the United States against the Atlantic 
Richfield Company under Section 107 of the Comprehensive Environmental 
Response, Compensation and Liability Act of 1980, as amended 
(``CERCLA''), 42 U.S.C. 9607, for the recovery of costs incurred and to 
be incurred in responding to releases and threatened releases of 
hazardous substances at the Clark Fork Site. Under the terms of the 
proposed Consent Decree, Atlantic

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Richfield will provide funding to implement EPA's cleanup plan for the 
Clark Fork Site and reimburse costs incurred by EPA in responding to 
contamination at the Clark Fork Site. The proposed Consent Decree will 
also, among other things, require Atlantic Richfield to: reimburse the 
U.S. National Park Service for costs incurred by the National Park 
Service in responding to contamination at the Grant-Kohrs Ranch 
National Historic Site, which is a National Park within the geographic 
boundary of the Clark Fork Site; pay the National Park Service and the 
U.S. Bureau of Land Management for natural resource damages restoration 
work at the Grant Kohrs Ranch and at certain property owned by the U.S. 
Bureau of Land Management within the Clark Fork Site; and pay the State 
of Montana for restoration work that the State plans to conduct at the 
Clark Fork Site and at two other Superfund sites in and near Anaconda 
and Butte, Montana.
    The Department of Justice will receive comments relating to the 
proposed Consent Decree for a period of sixty (60) days from the date 
of this publication. 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. Atlantic Richfield, DJ Ref. No. 90-11-2-430.
    The proposed Consent Decree may be examined at the office of the 
United States Attorney for the District of Montana, 2929 Third Avenue 
North, Suite 400, Billings, Montana 59101, and at the U.S. EPA Region 
VIII Montana Office, Federal Building, 10 West 15th Street, Suite 3200, 
Helena, Montana 59624. During the public comment period, the proposed 
Consent Decree may also be examined on the following Department of 
Justice Web site: http://www.usdoj.gov/enrd/Consent_Decrees.html. In 
addition, a copy of the Consent Decree may 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 payable to the U.S. 
Treasury in the amount of $41.75 (25 cents per page reproduction cost) 
for the Consent Decree, plus $188.00 if you want a copy of the 
appendices to the Consent Decree and $8.75 for a copy of a related 
consent decree between the State of Montana and the Atlantic Richfield 
Company regarding the Clark Fork, Anaconda, and Butte Sites.

Robert Brook,
Assistant Section Chief, Environmental Enforcement Section, Environment 
and Natural Resources Division.
[FR Doc. E8-2547 Filed 2-11-08; 8:45 am]
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