Federal Register / Vol. 90, No. 14 / Thursday, January 23, 2025 / Notices 8049 

DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE 

Notice of Lodging of Proposed 

Consent Decree Under the 

Comprehensive Environmental 

Response, Compensation, and Liability 

Act (‘‘CERCLA’’) 

On January 16, 2025, the Department 

of Justice lodged a proposed Consent 

Decree with the United States District 

Court for the District of Massachusetts 

in the lawsuit entitled United States v. 

Aerosols Danville, Inc., et al., Civil 

Action No. 25–10115 (D. Mass.). 

The proposed Consent Decree would 

resolve the affirmative claims of the 

United States, on behalf of the United 

States Department of the Interior 

(‘‘DOI’’), in United States v. Aerosols 

Danville, Inc., et al., Civil Action No. 

No. 25–10115 (D. Mass.) against 

Aerosols Danville, Inc., f/k/a KIK 

Custom Products, Inc.; Avnet, Inc.; Bank 

of America, N.A., Trustee u/w of Lloyd 

G. Balfour; BASF Catalysts LLC; 

Chevron Environmental Management 

Company, for itself and as Attorney-inFact for Kewanee Industries, Inc.; City 

of Attleboro, Massachusetts; 

ConocoPhillips Company; Handy & 

Harman; International Paper Company; 

Swank Holdings, Inc.; Teknor Apex 

Company; Texas Instruments 

Incorporated; Waste Management of 

Massachusetts, Inc.; and Town of 

Norton, Massachusetts (collectively 

referred to as ‘‘Defendants’’ herein). In 

that lawsuit, the United States, under 

section 107(a) of the Comprehensive 

Environmental Response, 

Compensation, and Liability Act of 

1980, as amended (‘‘CERCLA’’), 42 

U.S.C. 9607(a), seeks damages for 

injuries to natural resources and 

recovery of assessment costs incurred by 

DOI in connection with the Shpack 

Landfill Site located in the City of 

Attleboro, Massachusetts and the Town 

of Norton, Massachusetts. The proposed 

Consent Decree would also resolve the 

related claims of the Commonwealth of 

Massachusetts against Defendants and 

the United States, on behalf of the 

United States Department of Energy, in 

the lawsuit entitled Massachusetts v. 

Aerosols Danville, Inc., et al., Civil 

Action No. 25–10118 (D. Mass). 

Under the proposed Consent Decree, 

Defendants and the United States, on 

behalf of the Department of Energy, will 

pay a combined $2,100,000, which will 

go towards natural resource restoration 

efforts and assessment costs incurred by 

DOI and the Commonwealth. In 

exchange, Defendants and the United 

States, on behalf of the Department of 

Energy, will receive covenants not to 

sue under sections 107 of CERCLA, 42 

U.S.C. 9607, and contribution protection 

under section 113 of CERCLA, 42 U.S.C. 

9613. In addition, Defendants will 

receive a covenant from the 

Commonwealth not to sue under the 

Massachusetts Oil and Hazardous 

Material Release Prevention and 

Response Act, Mass. Gen Laws ch. 21E, 

sections 1–22, or any other statutory 

law, or any common law. 

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, 

Environmental Enforcement Section, 

and should refer to United States v. 

Aerosols Danville, Inc., et al., Civil 

Action No. No. 25–10115 (D. Mass.), D.J. 

Ref. Nos. 90–11–2–08360/4 and 90–11– 

6–21155. 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. 

Any comments submitted in writing 

may be filed in whole or in part on the 

public court docket without notice to 

the commenter. 

During the public comment period, 

the 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 

consent decree, you may request 

assistance by email or by mail to the 

addresses provided above for submitting 

comments. 

Eric D. Albert, 

Assistant Section Chief, Environmental 

Enforcement Section, Environment and 

Natural Resources Division. 

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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE 

Notice of Lodging of Proposed 

Consent Decree Under the Safe 

Drinking Water Act 

On January 16, 2025, the Department 

of Justice lodged a proposed consent 

decree with the United States District 

Court for the Central District of 

California in the lawsuit entitled United 

States v. Sophia Lawson Clark, in her 

capacity as Administrator of the Estate 

of Scott Lawson, and Lopez to Lawson, 

Inc., Civil Action No. 5:23–cv–1650. 

This case involves violations of the 

Safe Drinking Water Act (‘‘SDWA’’) at 

the Oasis Mobile Home Park (the 

‘‘Park’’) located in Thermal, California. 

The Park has a public water system that 

relies on groundwater with high levels 

of naturally occurring arsenic, a 

carcinogen that is harmful to human 

health. In August 2023, the United 

States filed a complaint against the 

Defendants alleging violations of the 

Underground Injection Control 

regulations with respect to the 

Defendants’ wastewater system as 

provided in section 1421 of the SDWA, 

42 U.S.C. 300h, and its implementing 

regulations at 40 CFR part 144; 

violations of the United States 

Environmental Protection Agency’s 

(‘‘EPA’’) emergency administrative order 

under section 1431 of the SDWA, 42 

U.S.C. 300i(b), to address deficiencies 

with the Defendants’ public drinking 

water system; and that the Defendants’ 

public drinking water and wastewater 

systems presented an imminent and 

substantial endangerment to the health 

of its users as provided under section 

1431(a) of the SDWA, 42 U.S.C. 300i(a). 

Under the Consent Decree, the 

Defendants shall pay the United States 

a $50,000 civil penalty. The Consent 

Decree also requires the Defendants to 

undertake injunctive relief to achieve 

consistent SDWA compliance. Once the 

Defendants have fully addressed the 

compliance for the drinking water 

system, they will then begin work on 

the wastewater system and identify 

corrective actions that they will then 

take steps to address through an EPAapproved compliance schedule. 

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 v. Sophia Lawson Clark, in her 

capacity as Administrator of the Estate 

of Scott Lawson, and Lopez to Lawson, 

Inc., D.J. Ref. No. 90–5–1–1–12437, Case 

Action No. 23–cv–01650. 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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