[Federal Register Volume 73, Number 219 (Wednesday, November 12, 2008)]
[Notices]
[Page 66921]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E8-26731]


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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE


Notice of Lodging of Consent Decree Under the Oil Pollution Act

    Notice is hereby given that on October 30, 2008, a proposed Consent 
Decree (``Decree'') in United States et al. v. Enbridge Energy Limited 
Partnership, Civil Action No. 0:08-cv-5878, was lodged with the United 
States District Court for the District of Minnesota.
    In this action, the United States, the State of Minnesota, and the 
Leech Lake Band of Ojibwe sought to recover from Enbridge Energy 
Limited Partnership (``Enbridge'') natural resource damages under the 
Oil Pollution Act, 33 U.S.C. 2701, et seq., and the Minnesota Water 
Pollution Control Act, Minn. Stat. Sec.  115.071 subd.3, respectively, 
at the Enbridge Energy Site, Cohasset, Itasca County, MN, which arose 
from an alleged July 2002 discharge, from a subsurface pipeline owned 
by Enbridge, of 6,000 barrels of crude oil into a forested wetland 
within the watershed of a tributary of the Mississippi River.
    Under the proposed Decree, Enbridge will: (i) Pay a total of 
$16,300 to the plaintiffs in reimbursement of the costs they incurred 
in assessing the natural resource damages (in addition to $112,000 in 
assessment costs previously reimbursed by Embridge); (ii) remove a 
portion of a forest road within the Chippewa National Forest; (iii) 
restore an impounded forested wetlands within the Chippewa National 
Forest; and (iv) retrofit, with diesel oxidation catalyst devices, ten 
diesel school buses owned by the Tribe.
    The Department of Justice will receive for a period of thirty (30) 
days from the date of this publication comments relating to the 
proposed 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 et al. v. Enbridge Energy Limited Partnership, D.J. 
Ref. 90-5-1-1-08549.
    The Decree may be examined at the Office of the United States 
Attorney, 300 S. 4th St., Suite 600, Minneapolis, MN 55415, and at U.S. 
EPA Region 5, 77 W. Jackson Blvd., Chicago, Illinois 60604. During the 
public comment period, the Decree may also be examined on the following 
Department of Justice Web site, to 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 $34.35 
(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.

William Brighton,
Assistant Chief, Environmental Enforcement Section, Environment and 
Natural Resources Division.
 [FR Doc. E8-26731 Filed 11-10-08; 8:45 am]
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