[Federal Register Volume 73, Number 160 (Monday, August 18, 2008)]
[Notices]
[Page 48242]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E8-19036]


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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 August 12, 2008, a proposed Remedial 
Design/Remedial Action Consent Decree (``Decree'') in United States and 
State of Rhode Island v. Rhode Island Board of Governors for Higher 
Education, et al., Civil Action No. 08-0306 (ML) was lodged with the 
United States District Court for the District of Rhode Island.
    The Decree resolves claims of the United States and the State of 
Rhode Island against the Rhode Island Board of Governors for Higher 
Education, the University of Rhode Island, the Town of Narragansett, 
and the Town of South Kingstown brought under the Comprehensive 
Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act of 1980, 
(``CERCLA''), 42 U.S.C. 9601-9675, for declaratory relief, injunctive 
relief, and recovery of response costs incurred and to be incurred by 
the United States in connection with the release of hazardous 
substances at the West Kingston Town Dump/URI Disposal Area Superfund 
Site located in South Kingstown, Rhode Island (``Site''). The Decree 
requires the settling defendants to perform the remedy selected by EPA 
and to pay $650,000 to the governments for response costs, including 
EPA and Rhode Island Department of Environmental Management oversight 
costs. The work to be performed by the settling defendants is expected 
to cost about $2.343 million.
    The Department of Justice will receive for a period of thirty (30) 
days from the date of this publication comments relating to the Decree. 
Comments should be addressed to the Assistant Attorney General, 
Environmental 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 and State of Rhode Island v. Rhode Island Board of 
Governors, et al., Civil Action No. 08-0306 (ML) (D.R.I.), D.J. Ref. 
90-11-3-09142.
    The Decree may be examined at the Office of the United States 
Attorney, District of Rhode Island, 50 Kennedy Plaza, 8th Floor, 
Providence, RI 02903, and at U.S. EPA Region I, 1 Congress Street, 
Boston, MA 02114. During the public comment period, the Decree may also 
be examined on the following Department of Justice Web site, http://www.usdoj.gov/enrd/Consent_Decrees.html. A copy of the 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 $23.25 (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.

Ronald G. Gluck,
Assistant Chief, Environmental Enforcement Section, Environment and 
Natural Resources Division.
[FR Doc. E8-19036 Filed 8-15-08; 8:45 am]
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