[Federal Register Volume 73, Number 152 (Wednesday, August 6, 2008)]
[Notices]
[Pages 45778-45779]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E8-18044]


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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE


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

    Notice is hereby given that on July 30, 2008, a proposed consent 
decree in United States v. Morrison Enterprises, LLC, and Cooperative 
Producers, Inc., Civil Action No. 8:08-00332-JFB-TDT, was lodged with 
the United States District Court for the District of Nebraska.
    In this action, the United States sought an order requiring 
defendants to perform the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) 
selected environmental remedy and to reimburse the United States for 
costs incurred and to be incurred, in response to releases and 
threatened releases of hazardous substances into the environment at and 
from the FAR-MAR-CO Subsite of the Hastings Ground Water Contamination 
Site in Hastings, Nebraska. The Subsite consists of a grain operations 
facility, where ground water is contaminated by carbon tetrachloride 
and ethylene dibromide. The Consent Decree provides that defendants 
will perform the remedial action at the Site, pay $32,287 in past 
response costs, which represents 100% of EPA's past costs, and pay 
future response costs.
    For thirty (30) days after the date of this publication, the 
Department of

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Justice will receive 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. In either case, the comments should 
refer to United States v. Morrison Enterprises, LLC, and Cooperative 
Producers, Inc., Civil Action No. 8:08-00332-JFB-TDT, D.J. Ref. No. 90-
11-3-431/2.
    The decree may be examined at the Office of the United States 
Attorney, District of Nebraska, 1620 Dodge Street, Suite 1400, Omaha, 
Nebraska, 68102. During the comment period, the Consent Decree may be 
examined on the following Department of Justice website: http://www.usdoj.gov/enrd/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 $38.00 (25 cents per 
page reproduction cost) payable to the United States Treasury or, if by 
e-mail or fax, forward a check in that amount to the Consent Decree 
Library at the stated address.

Robert E. Maher, Jr.,
Assistant Section Chief Environmental Enforcement Section, Environment 
and Natural Resources Division.
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