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Notice of Lodging of Consent Decree Pursuant To the Comprehensive Environmental Response Compensation and Liability Act

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[Federal Register: August 1, 2007 (Volume 72, Number 147)]
[Notices]
[Page 42113]
From the Federal Register Online via GPO Access [wais.access.gpo.gov]
[DOCID:fr01au07-96]

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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

Notice of Lodging of Consent Decree Pursuant To the Comprehensive
Environmental Response Compensation and Liability Act

    Notice is hereby given that a proposed consent decree in United
States v. Delavan, Inc., Civil Action No. 07-331, was lodged on July
25, 2007 with the United States District Court of the Southern District
of Iowa. The United States filed this action pursuant to the
Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act
seeking clean up of groundwater contamination and recovery of costs
incurred at the Southern Plume of the Railroad Avenue Site in West Des
Moines, Iowa.
    The Consent Decree resolves the United States' claims by requiring
the defendant Delavan, Inc. to perform the clean up, at a cost of
approximately $500,000 and to reimburse the United States for its
future costs.
    The Department of Justice will receive, for a period of thirty (30)
days from the date of this publication, comments relating to the
proposed consent decree. Comments should be address to the Assistant
Attorney General, Environment and Natural Resources Division, and
either e-mailed to pubcomment-ees.enrd@usdoj.gov or mailed to P.O. Box
7611, U.S. Department of Justice, Washington, DC 20044-7611, and should
refer to United States v. Delavan, Inc., DOJ Ref. #90-11-2-
09081.
    The proposed consent decree may be examined at the office of the
United States Attorney, U.S. Courthouse Annex, Suite #286, 110
East Court Avenue, Des Moines, Iowa 50309-2053, and at the Region VII
Office of the Environmental Protection Agency, 901 N. 5th Street,
Kansas City, KS 66101. During the public comment period, the proposed
consent decree may also be examined on the Department of Justice Web
site, at http://www.usdoj.gov/enrd/Consent_Decrees.html. A copy of the
proposed consent decree 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
tonia.fleetwood@usdoj.gov), fax number (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 $32.65
(or $11.00, for a copy that omits the exhibits and signature pages) (25
cents per page reproduction cost) payable to the U.S. Treasury or, if
by e-mail or fax, forward a check in that amount to the Consent Decree
Library at the stated address.

W. Benjamin Fisherow,
Deputy Chief, Environmental Enforcement Section, Environment and
Natural Resources Division.
[FR Doc. 07-3750 Filed 7-31-07; 8:45 am]
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