[Federal Register Volume 78, Number 13 (Friday, January 18, 2013)]
[Notices]
[Pages 4168-4169]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2013-01033]


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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE


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

    On January 10, 2013, the Department of Justice lodged a proposed 
Consent Decree with the United States District Court for the Central 
District of California in the lawsuit entitled United States v. Pacific 
Gas & Electric Company, Civil Action No. EDCV13-00074-VAP(OPx).
    The United States filed this lawsuit on behalf of the Department of 
the Interior under the Comprehensive Environmental Response, 
Compensation and Liability Act (CERCLA). The complaint requests 
recovery of costs that the United States incurred responding to 
releases of hazardous substances at the Pacific Gas & Electric Topock 
Gas Compressor Station Site, located approximately 15 miles southeast 
of Needles, California, in San Bernadino County. The complaint also 
seeks injunctive relief. Under the proposed Consent Decree the 
defendant PG&E agrees to pay the United States' response costs incurred 
and to be incurred in connection with the response actions at the Site 
and to perform the groundwater remedial action that the Department of 
Interior selected for the site. In return, the United States agrees not 
to sue the defendant PG&E under sections 106 and 107 of CERCLA.
    The publication of this notice opens a period for public comment on 
the Consent Decree. Comments should be addressed to the Assistant 
Attorney General, Environment and Natural Resources Division, and 
should refer to United States v. Pacific Gas & Electric Company, Civil 
Action No. EDCV13-00074-VAP (OPx) (USDC C.D. Cal.), D.J. Ref. No. 90-
11-3-07240/4. All comments must be submitted no later than thirty (30) 
days after the publication date of this notice. Comments may be 
submitted either by email or by mail:

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        To submit comments:                     Send them to:
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By email..........................  [email protected].
By mail...........................  Assistant Attorney General, U.S.
                                     DOJ--ENRD, P.O. Box 7611,
                                     Washington, DC 20044-7611.
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    During the public comment period, the Consent Decree may be 
examined and downloaded at this Justice Department Web site: http://www.usdoj.gov/enrd/Consent_Decrees.html. We will provide a paper copy 
of the Consent Decree upon written request and payment of reproduction 
costs. Please mail your request and payment to: Consent Decree Library, 
U.S. DOJ--ENRD, P.O. Box 7611, Washington, DC 20044-7611.
    Please enclose a check or money order for $63.25 (25 cents per page

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reproduction cost) payable to the United States Treasury. For a paper 
copy without the exhibits and signature pages, the cost is $19.50.

Henry Friedman,
Assistant Section Chief, Environmental Enforcement Section, Environment 
and Natural Resources Division.
[FR Doc. 2013-01033 Filed 1-17-13; 8:45 am]
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