[Federal Register Volume 67, Number 192 (Thursday, October 3, 2002)]
[Notices]
[Pages 62075-62076]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 02-25099]


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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE


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

    Notice is hereby given that on September 16, 2002, a proposed 
consent decree in United States v. Buena Vista Mines, Inc., et al., 
Civil Action No. 98-7226 SVW (RNBx), was lodged with the United States 
District Court for the Central District of California.
    In this action, brought under sections 106 and 107 of the 
Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act, 
42 U.S.C. 9606, 9607, the United States sought reimbursement of 
response costs incurred by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency 
(``EPA'') at the Buena Vista/Klau Mine Site near Paso Robles 
California, as well as civil penalties and treble damages arising from 
the failure of defendants Buena Vista Mines, Inc. (``BVMI''), Harold J. 
Biaggini, and Edward C. Biaggini, III to comply with an EPA 
administrative clean-up order. The consent decree provides for payments 
of $500,000 from the defendants and $100,000 from third-party defendant 
County of San Luis Obispo and, in addition, provides that the United 
States will receive the major portion of all proceeds of any future 
BVMI land sales. In exchange for the settlement payments, the settling 
parties will receive a site-wide covenant-not-to-sue, subject to 
certain reservations.
    The Department of Justice will receive for a period of thirty (30) 
days from the date of this publication comments relating to the consent 
decree. Comments should be addressed to the Assistant Attorney General, 
Environment and Natural Resources Division, PO Box 7611, U.S. 
Department of Justice, Washington, DC 20044-7611, and should refer to 
United States v. Buena Vista Mines, Inc., et al., D.J. Ref. No. 90-5-1-
1-4467/1.
    The consent decree may be examined at the offices of U.S. EPA 
Region 9, 75 Hawthorne Street, San Francisco, California 94105. A copy 
of the consent decree may also be obtained by mail from the Consent 
Decree Library, PO Box 7611, U.S. Department of Justice, Washington, DC 
20044-7611, or by faxing a request to Tonia Fleetwood, fax no. (202) 
514-0097, phone confirmation

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number (202) 514-1547. In requesting a copy, please enclose a check in 
the amount of $10.75 (25 cents per page reproduction cost) payable to 
the U.S. Treasury.

Ellen M. Mahan,
Assistant Chief, Environmental Enforcement Section, Environment and 
Natural Resources Division.
[FR Doc. 02-25099 Filed 10-2-02; 8:45 am]
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