[Federal Register Volume 67, Number 211 (Thursday, October 31, 2002)]
[Notices]
[Pages 66416-66417]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 02-27654]


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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE


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

    In accordance with 28 CFR 50.7, notice is hereby given that on 
October 17, 2002, a proposed consent decree (the ``Bruno consent 
decree'' in United States v. Union Pacific Railroad Company and Bruno 
Cooperative Association, Civil Action No. 8:02-cv-483, was lodged with 
the United States District Court for the District of Nebraska.
    In this action the United States sought injunctive relief and 
recovery of costs incurred and to be incurred by the United States 
responding to releases and threatened releases of hazardous substances 
from the Bruno Agricultural Coop/Associated Properties Site in Bruno, 
Nebraska. The proposed consent decree memorializes a settlement by 
which Union Pacific and Bruno Coop (the ``Settling Defendants''), both 
past owners of the Site (the Coop continues to own the Site), will 
implement and maintain a remedy chosen by the United States 
Environmental Protection Agency (``EPA'') to address groundwater 
contamination and restore a municipal drinking water well in Bruno, 
Nebraska. Settling Defendants also agree to fund one-half of the remedy 
cost and to reimburse a specified amount of the Site response costs 
provides that the United States Department of Agriculture (``USDA''), 
which formerly operated at the Site, also will fund one-half of the 
remedy cost and reimburse specified costs previously incurred by EPA.
    The Department of Justice will receive for a period of thirty (30) 
days from the date of this publication comments relating to the Bruno 
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. Union Pacific Railroad Company and Bruno Cooperative 
Association, D.J. Ref. 90-11-3-06101.

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    The Bruno consent decree may be examined at the Office of the 
United States Attorney, District of Nebraska, 1620 Dodge Street, Suite 
1400, Omaha, NE 68102-1506, and at U.S. EPA Region 7, 901 N. 5th 
Street, Kansas City, KS 66101. A copy of the Bruno 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. In requesting a 
copy, please enclose a check in the amount of $50.75 (25 cents per page 
reproduction cost) payable to the U.S. Treasury.
    Alternatively, you may request a copy of only the consent decree, 
without the attached appendices, by enclosing a check in the amount of 
$13.00 (25 cents per page reproduction cost). Please make checks 
payable to the Consent Decree Library.

Robert E. Maher, Jr.,
Assistant Chief, Environmental Enforcement Section, Environment and 
Natural Resources Division.
[FR Doc. 02-27654 Filed 10-30-02; 8:45 am]
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