9866 Federal Register / Vol. 89, No. 29 / Monday, February 12, 2024 / Notices 

OMB Control Number: 1029–0036. 

Form Number: None. 

Type of Review: Extension of a 

currently approved collection. 

Respondents/Affected Public: State 

governments and businesses. 

Total Estimated Number of Annual 

Respondents: 100. 

Total Estimated Number of Annual 

Responses: 3,091. 

Estimated Completion Time per 

Response: Varies from 2 hours to 160 

hours, depending on activity. 

Total Estimated Number of Annual 

Burden Hours: 96,158. 

Respondent’s Obligation: Required to 

obtain or retain a benefit. 

Frequency of Collection: One time. 

Total Estimated Annual Nonhour 

Burden Cost: $791,900. 

An agency may not conduct or 

sponsor and a person is not required to 

respond to a collection of information 

unless it displays a currently valid OMB 

control number. 

The authority for this action is the 

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (44 

U.S.C. 3501 et seq.). 

Mark J. Gehlhar, 

Information Collection Clearance Officer, 

Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and 

Enforcement. 

[FR Doc. 2024–02802 Filed 2–9–24; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4310–05–P 

DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE 

Notice of Lodging of Proposed 

Consent Decree Under the Clean Water 

Act 

On February 5, 2024, the Department 

of Justice lodged a proposed consent 

decree with the United States District 

Court for the District of Massachusetts 

in United States and Commonwealth of 

Massachusetts v. City of Lowell, 

Massachusetts, 1:24–cv–10290 (D. 

Mass.). 

The United States filed a complaint 

for injunctive relief and civil penalties 

under sections 309(b) and (d) of the 

Clean Water Act, 33 U.S.C. 1319(b) and 

(d), against Defendant, City of Lowell 

for: (1) unpermitted and illegal 

discharges from its wastewater 

collection system, without authorization 

under a National Pollutant Discharge 

Elimination System (‘‘NPDES’’) permit 

and in violation of section 301 of the 

Clean Water Act, 33 U.S.C. 1311; and (2) 

unpermitted and illegal discharges of 

pollutants from its Small Municipal 

Separate Storm Sewer System. The 

Commonwealth of Massachusetts has 

moved to file an Intervenor’s Complaint 

alleging violations of the Clean Water 

Act, the Massachusetts Clean Waters 

Act, M.G.L. c. 21, sections 26–53, and 

the regulations promulgated thereunder, 

314 C.M.R. sections 3.00, et seq., 7.00, 

et seq., and 12.00, et seq. Under the 

proposed Consent Decree among the 

parties, the City of Lowell must take 

measures necessary to achieve and 

maintain compliance with the Federal 

Clean Water Act, the Massachusetts 

Clean Waters Act, and the City’s NPDES 

permit. These include measures to 

separate wastewater sewer pipes and 

stormwater pipes to prevent sewage 

discharges to the Merrimack and 

Concord Rivers and Beaver Brook from 

the combined pipes during rain events. 

Under the proposed Consent Decree, the 

City will also update and implement its 

Illicit Discharge Detection and 

Elimination program to detect and 

eliminate illicit connections from 

wastewater pipes or other sources of 

wastewater to the stormwater system. 

Finally, under the proposed settlement, 

the City will pay a $200,000 civil 

penalty for past noncompliance. 

The publication of this notice opens 

a period for public comment on the 

proposed Consent Decree. Comments 

should be addressed to the Assistant 

Attorney General, Environment and 

Natural Resources Division, United 

States Department of Justice, and should 

refer to United States and 

Commonwealth of Massachusetts v. City 

of Lowell, Massachusetts, 1:24–cv– 

10290 (D. Mass.), D.J. Ref. No. 90–5–1– 

1–12515. All comments must be 

submitted no later than thirty (30) days 

after the publication date of this notice. 

Comments may be submitted either by 

email or by mail: 

To submit 

comments: Send them to: 

By email ....... pubcomment-ees.enrd@

usdoj.gov. 

By mail ......... Assistant Attorney General, 

U.S. DOJ—ENRD, P.O. 

Box 7611, Washington, 

D.C. 20044–7611. 

Any comments submitted in writing 

may be filed by the United States in 

whole or in part on the public court 

docket without notice to the commenter. 

During the public comment period, 

the proposed consent decree may be 

examined and downloaded at this 

Justice Department website: https://

www.justice.gov/enrd/consent-decrees. 

If you require assistance accessing the 

proposed consent decree, you may 

request assistance by email or by mail 

to the addresses provided above for 

submitting comments. 

Henry S. Friedman, 

Assistant Section Chief, Environmental 

Enforcement Section, Environment and 

Natural Resources Division. 

[FR Doc. 2024–02738 Filed 2–9–24; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4410–15–P 

DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE 

Notice of Lodging of Proposed 

Consent Decree Under the 

Comprehensive Environmental 

Response, Compensation, and Liability 

Act 

On February 5, 2024, the Department 

of Justice lodged a proposed consent 

decree with the United States District 

Court for the Southern District of 

Indiana in the lawsuit entitled United 

States and State of Indiana v. 1500 

South Tibbs LLC, Civil Action No. 1:24– 

cv–235. 

The proposed Consent Decree settles 

claims brought by the United States and 

the State of Indiana under sections 106 

and 107 of the Comprehensive 

Environmental Response, 

Compensation, and Liability Act 

(‘‘CERCLA’’), 42 U.S.C. 9606 and 9607 

against 1500 South Tibbs LLC 

(‘‘Defendant’’) seeking reimbursement of 

response costs and performance of 

remedial measures with respect to 

Reilly Tar and Chemical Superfund Site 

in Indianapolis, Indiana. The Consent 

Decree requires Defendant to pay the 

United States a total of $112,805.24 for 

EPA’s response costs, pay the State a 

total of $21,061.53 for its past response 

costs, pay future response costs incurred 

by the United States and the State, and 

perform the remedial ‘‘Work’’ defined in 

the Scope of Work, attached to the 

Consent Decree as Attachment A. The 

Work consists of designing and 

implementing a revised Operable Unit 1 

(OU1) remedy for the treatment of 

groundwater underneath the Site and to 

continue operating and maintaining the 

remedies for contamination at the other 

Operable Units. 

The publication of this notice opens 

a period for public comment on the 

proposed consent decree. Comments 

should be addressed to the Assistant 

Attorney General, Environment and 

Natural Resources Division, and should 

refer to United States and State of 

Indiana v. 1500 South Tibbs LLC, D.J. 

Ref. No. 90–11–3–1028/2. All comments 

must be submitted no later than thirty 

(30) days after the publication date of 

this notice. Comments may be 

submitted either by email or by mail: 


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