101628 Federal Register / Vol. 89, No. 241 / Monday, December 16, 2024 / Notices 

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, DC 

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. 

Jason A. Dunn, 

Assistant Section Chief, Environmental 

Enforcement Section, Environment and 

Natural Resources Division. 

[FR Doc. 2024–29524 Filed 12–13–24; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE P 

DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE 

Notice of Lodging of Proposed 

Consent Decree Under the 

Comprehensive Environmental 

Response, Compensation, and Liability 

Act 

On December 10, 2024, the 

Department of Justice lodged a proposed 

Consent Decree with the United States 

District Court for the District of New 

Jersey in United States v. Arnet Realty 

Company, L.L.C., Old Bridge Minerals, 

Inc., and HB Warehousing, LLC, Inc., 

(‘‘Defendants’’) Civil Action No. 3:24– 

cv–11009 (D.N.J.). 

The United States, on behalf of the 

Environmental Protection Agency 

(‘‘EPA’’), filed a Complaint against the 

Defendants under sections 106 and 107 

of the Comprehensive Environmental 

Response, Compensation, and Liability 

Act (‘‘CERCLA’’), 42 U.S.C. 9606 and 

9607. In the Complaint, the United 

States seeks (1) reimbursement of costs 

incurred and to be incurred by EPA and 

the Department of Justice for response 

actions at the CPS/Madison Superfund 

Site (‘‘Site’’) in Old Bridge Township, 

New Jersey, together with accrued 

interest, and (2) performance by the 

Defendants of response actions at the 

Site consistent with the National 

Contingency Plan, 40 CFR part 300. The 

proposed Consent Decree requires the 

Defendants to perform certain aspects of 

the Remedial Design and Remedial 

Action (‘‘RD/RA’’) for Operable Unit 1 

and the RD/RA for Operable Unit 3 of 

the Site, which are estimated to cost 

approximately $14 million, and to pay 

EPA’s future costs associated with 

oversight of that work. Under the 

proposed Consent Decree, the United 

States agrees not to sue the Defendants 

under sections 106 and 107 of CERCLA, 

42 U.S.C. 9606 and 9607, for the work 

that Defendants have agreed to perform. 

The publication of this notice opens 

a period for public comment on the 

Consent Decree. Comments should be 

addressed to the Assistant Attorney 

General, Environment and Natural 

Resources Division, and should refer to 

United States v. Arnet Realty Company, 

L.L.C., et al., D.J. Ref. No. 90–11–3– 

1525/3. 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, DC 

20044–7611. 

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. 

We will provide a paper copy of the 

proposed consent decree upon email 

request to pubcomment-ees.enrd@

usdoj.gov. 

Eric D. Albert, 

Assistant Section Chief, Environmental 

Enforcement Section, Environment and 

Natural Resources Division. 

[FR Doc. 2024–29476 Filed 12–13–24; 8:45 am] 

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DEPARTMENT OF LABOR 

Employment and Training 

Administration 

Labor Certification Process for the 

Temporary Employment of Foreign 

Workers in Agriculture in the United 

States: Adverse Effect Wage Rates for 

Non-Range Occupations 

AGENCY: Employment and Training 

Administration, Department of Labor. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: The Employment and 

Training Administration of the 

Department of Labor (DOL) is issuing 

this notice to announce updates to the 

Adverse Effect Wage Rates (AEWR) for 

the employment of temporary or 

seasonal nonimmigrant foreign workers 

(H–2A workers) to perform agricultural 

labor or services other than the herding 

or production of livestock on the range. 

AEWRs are the minimum wage rates the 

DOL has determined must be offered, 

advertised in recruitment, and paid by 

employers to H–2A workers and 

workers in corresponding employment 

so that the wages and working 

conditions of workers in the United 

States (U.S.) similarly employed will 

not be adversely affected. The AEWRs 

established in this notice are applicable 

to H–2A job opportunities classified: in 

six Standard Occupational 

Classification (SOC) codes comprising 

the field and livestock workers 

(combined) category, and in the field 

and livestock workers (combined) 

occupational category that are located in 

States or regions, or equivalent districts 

or territories, in which the United States 

Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) 

Farm Labor Report (better known as the 

Farm Labor Survey, or FLS) reports 

wages. In this notice, DOL also 

announces an update to the average 

AEWR, which is used to calculate 

adjustments to required bond amounts 

for H–2A Labor Contractors. 

DATES: These rates are effective 

December 16, 2024. However, for 

entities and states subject to the court 

order in Kansas et. al. v. U.S. 

Department of Labor, these rates are 

effective December 30, 2024. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Brian Pasternak, Administrator, Office 

of Foreign Labor Certification, 

Employment and Training 

Administration, U.S. Department of 

Labor, 200 Constitution Avenue NW, 

Room N–5311, Washington, DC 20210, 

telephone: (202) 693–8200 (this is not a 

toll-free number). For persons with a 

hearing or speech disability who need 

assistance to use the telephone system, 

please dial 711 to access 

telecommunications relay services. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The U.S. 

Citizenship and Immigration Services of 

the Department of Homeland Security 

will not approve an employer’s petition 

for the admission of H–2A 

nonimmigrant temporary and seasonal 

agricultural workers in the U.S. unless 

the petitioner has received an H–2A 

labor certification from DOL. DOL 

issues such labor certification when it 


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