[Federal Register Volume 73, Number 247 (Tuesday, December 23, 2008)]
[Notices]
[Page 78827]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E8-30437]


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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 December 17, 2008, a proposed 
Consent Decree in United States of America et al. v. Standard Metals 
Corporation, Civil Action No. 08-CV-02741 was lodged with the United 
States District Court for the District of Colorado.
    In this action the United States, on behalf of the Administrator of 
the United States Environmental Protection Agency, the Chief of the 
United States Department of Agriculture Forest Service, and the 
Secretary of the Interior, and the State of Colorado, on behalf of the 
Executive Director of the Colorado Department of Public Health and 
Environment, the Director of the Colorado Department of Natural 
Resources, and the Attorney General of the State of Colorado (together, 
the ``government''), sought to recover response costs incurred or to be 
incurred for response actions taken or to be taken at or in connection 
with the release or threatened release of hazardous substances at the 
Standard Mine Site in Gunnison County, Colorado, the Ross Adams Site on 
Prince of Wales Island, Alaska, six sites in San Juan County, Colorado, 
and the Antler Mine and Mill Site in Mohave County, Arizona 
(collectively, the ``Sites''), and to recover damages for injury to, 
destruction of, or loss of natural resources at the Sites and 
surrounding riparian corridors, including the reasonable costs of 
assessing such injury, destruction or loss, pursuant to Section 107 of 
the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability 
Act of 1980 (``CERCLA''), 42 U.S.C. 9607.
    The Consent Decree resolves the government's CERCLA response cost 
claims at the Sites by requiring that Standard pursue insurance 
recovery and pay to the government 50% of the first $180,000 recovered 
and 90% of all recovery thereafter. The Consent Decree resolves the 
government's CERCLA natural resource damage claims at the Sites by 
requiring that Standard transfer to the United States approximately 800 
acres of real property to which it holds title, at the government's 
option.
    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, et al. v. Standard Metals Corporation, Civil Action No. 
08-CV-02741 (D.CO), D.J. Ref. 90-11-3-08831.
    The Decree may be examined at U.S. EPA Region 8, 1595 Wynkoop 
Street, Denver, Colorado 80202. 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.

Robert Brook,
Assistant Chief, Environmental Enforcement Section, Environment and 
Natural Resources Division.
[FR Doc. E8-30437 Filed 12-22-08; 8:45 am]
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