[Federal Register Volume 75, Number 200 (Monday, October 18, 2010)]
[Notices]
[Page 63858]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2010-26136]


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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 October 8, 2010 a proposed consent 
decree (``proposed Decree'') in United States v. Albert Investment Co., 
Inc., et al., Civil Action No. 08-637C, was lodged with the United 
States District Court for the Western District of Oklahoma.
    In this action under Section 107(a) of the Comprehensive 
Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act, 42 U.S.C. 
9607(a) (``CERCLA''), the United States and State of Oklahoma's 
complaint seeks reimbursement of response costs incurred or to be 
incurred for response actions taken and damages for injury to, 
destruction of, or loss of natural resources, including the reasonable 
costs of assessing such injury destruction or loss, at or in connection 
with the release or threatened release of hazardous substances at the 
Double Eagle Superfund Site, in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.
    The proposed Decree is an amended version of an earlier Decree 
which was lodged in the case, and which has now been withdrawn. The 
proposed Decree requires the defendants to pay approximately $6,268,643 
to the United States and the State in reimbursement of past response 
costs and $329,929 in state and federal natural resource damages. The 
proposed Decree provides the defendants with a covenant not to sue 
under Sections 106 and 107(a) of CERCLA, 42 U.S.C. 9606 and 9607(a) 
that are subject various reopeners and reservations.
    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 v. Albert Investment Co., Inc., et al., D.J. Ref. 90-
11-2-857/5.
    The proposed Decree may be examined at the Office of the United 
States Attorney for the Western District of Oklahoma, 210 Park Avenue, 
Suite 400, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma 73102, 1445 Ross Avenue, Suite 1200, 
Dallas, Texas 75202. During the public comment period, the proposed 
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 
proposed 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 $20.25 (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.

Maureen Katz,
Assistant Chief, Environmental Enforcement Section, Environment and 
Natural Resources Division.
[FR Doc. 2010-26136 Filed 10-15-10; 8:45 am]
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