[Federal Register Volume 74, Number 123 (Monday, June 29, 2009)]
[Notices]
[Page 31049]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E9-15272]


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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE


Notice of Proposed Administrative Settlement Agreement and Order 
on Consent Under the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation 
and Liability Act (CERCLA)

    Notice is hereby given that on June 15, 2009, a proposed Settlement 
Agreement regarding the Asarco Hayden Plant Site in Hayden, Arizona 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 and Asarco LLC, 
provides the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency an allowed general 
unsecured claim of $3.0 million for response costs incurred by EPA on 
or before May 27, 2008 at the Asarco Hayden Plant 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 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 website: 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.

Maureen Katz,
Assistant Chief, Environmental Enforcement Section, Environment and 
Natural Resources Division.
[FR Doc. E9-15272 Filed 6-26-09; 8:45 am]
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