[Federal Register Volume 72, Number 225 (Friday, November 23, 2007)]
[Notices]
[Page 65767]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 07-5780]


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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE


Notice of Lodging of Proposed Settlement Agreement Under the 
Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act 
(CERCLA)

    Notice is hereby given that on October 31, 2007, a proposed 
Settlement Agreement regarding the Golinsky Mine Site was filed with 
the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of Texas 
in In re Asarco LLC, No. 05-21207 (Bankr. S.D. Tex.). The proposed 
Agreement entered into by the United States on behalf of the Department 
of Agriculture Forest Service and the Environmental Protection Agency 
and Asarco LLC provides, inter alia, that the United States shall have 
an allowed general unsecured claim of $4,050,000 with respect to the 
Site.
    The Department of Justice will receive comments relating to the 
proposed Agreement for a period of thirty (30) days from the date of 
this publication. 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 In re Asarco LLC, DJ Ref. No. 90-11-3-08633.
    The proposed Agreement may be examined at the Office of the United 
States Attorney for the Southern District of Texas, 800 North Shoreline 
Blvd, 500, Corpus Christi, TX 78476-2001, at the Office of the 
Department of Agriculture, Office of the General Counsel, Room 3351, 
South Building, 1400 Independence Avenue, SW., Washington, DC 20250, 
and at the Region 9 Office of the United States Environmental 
Protection Agency, 75 Hawthorne Street, San Francisco, California 
94105. During the public comment period, the proposed Agreement 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 
Agreement 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 $2.75 (25 cents per 
page reproduction cost) payable to the U.S. Treasury.


Robert E. Maher, Jr.,
Section Chief, Environmental Enforcement Section, Environment and 
Natural Resources Division.
[FR Doc. 07-5780 Filed 11-21-07; 8:45 am]
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