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Afternoon Session: Alternative 

Technologies To Reach the Consumer 

Some observers have predicted that 

most telecommunications and 

entertainment services will at some 

point be delivered to all consumers over 

a single connection to their homes. Will 

consumers have a wide selection of 

alternative providers for that 

connection? 

Panel III: Wireless Technologies 

Issues: This panel will focus on the 

extent to which wireless broadband 

systems are current and future 

competitive alternatives to cable 

modems and DSL. What regulatory or 

other issues could delay rollout? What 

are the prospects for municipal 

broadband networks? How are these 

advanced wireless services likely to 

impact competition? 

Panel IV: Other Technologies Including 

Satellite, Broadband Over Power Line 

Issues: This panel will focus on 

whether other technologies such as 

satellite and broadband over power 

lines can compete for customers. What 

is the current and predicted subscriber 

base for these services, and what is 

necessary to attract more subscribers 

and providers? Will these services be 

competitive everywhere or only in 

limited geographic areas or for certain 

types of customers? 

Privacy Notice: Those who preregister 

for the symposium must supply their 

name, affiliation and e-mail address to 

the Antitrust Division. The Department 

of Justice is permitted by law to collect 

this contact information to consider and 

use for the stated purpose. Under the 

Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) or 

other laws, we may be required to 

disclose the information you provide us 

to outside organizations. In addition, all 

timely and responsive submissions, 

whether filed in paper or electronic 

form, may be made publicly available at 

http://www.usdoj.gov/atr/public/

workshops/telecom2007/index.htm. 

While DOJ makes certain efforts, in its 

discretion, to remove home contact and 

other personally identifying information 

for individuals from the public 

submissions it receives before placing 

those submissions on its Web site, 

persons making submissions are 

responsible for ensuring that these do 

not contain any information that they 

are unwilling to have disclosed to the 

public. For additional information, 

including routine uses permitted by the 

Privacy Act, see the DOJ Web site 

privacy policy at http://www.usdoj.gov/ 

privacy-file.htm. 

Dated: October 10, 2007. 

Thomas O. Barnett, 

Assistant Attorney General, Antitrust 

Division. 

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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE 

Notice of Lodging of the ‘‘AEP’’

Proposed Consent Decree Under the 

Clean Air Act 

Pursuant to 28 CFR 50.7, notice is 

hereby given that on October 9, 2007 a 

proposed Consent Decree (‘‘Consent 

Decree’’) in United States, et al. v. 

American electric Power Service 

Corporation, et al., Civil Actions Nos. 

C2–99–1182, C2–99–1250, C2–04–1098, 

and C2–05–360, was lodged with the 

United States District Court for the 

Southern District of Ohio. 

In these civil enforcement actions 

under the federal Clean Air Act (‘‘Act’’), 

the United States alleges that several 

American Electric Power subsidiaries 

(collectively (‘‘AEP’’) failed to comply 

with the New Source Review provisions 

of the Act and the State Implementation 

Plans of Indiana, Ohio, Virginia, and 

West Virginia. The complaints allege 

that AEP violated the Act by failing to 

(i) seek permits prior to making major 

modifications and (ii) install 

appropriate pollution control devices to 

reduce emissions of air pollutants from 

units at the following power plants: 

Tanners Creek in Indiana; Cardinal, 

Conesville, and Muskingum River in 

Ohio; Clinch River in Virginia; Amos, 

Kammer, Mitchell, and Sporn in West 

Virginia. The complaints seek both 

injunctive relief and civil penalty. 

The Consent Decree lodged with the 

Court addresses all units at the nine 

power plants listed above as well as all 

units at the following seven AEP plants 

that were not part of the litigation: 

Rockport in Indiana; Big Sandy in 

Kentucky; Gavin and Picway in Ohio; 

Glen Lyn in Virginia; and Kanawha 

River and Mountaineer in West Virginia. 

The Consent Decree requires 

installation, upgrading, and continuous 

operation of pollution control devices 

on a number of the 46 units at the 

sixteen plants addressed in the 

settlement. The Consent Decree also 

imposes emissions caps that limit the 

total amount of nitrogen oxides and 

sulfur dioxide that can be collectively 

emitted by all 46 units at these plants, 

with a series of increasingly stringent 

limits beginning in 2009. 

The Consent Decree also requires AEP 

to pay the United States a civil fine of 

$15 million and to pay $60 million for 

environmental mitigation projects, 

including projects to acquire and restore 

ecologically sensitive land in eastern 

states downwind of AEP plants, restore 

or improve watersheds and forests in 

national parks affected by past 

emissions, reduce nitrogen loading in 

Chesapeake Bay, reduce emissions from 

sources in AEP’s vehicle fleet, and other 

projects to be directed by settling states. 

The States of Connecticut, Maryland, 

New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, 

Rhode Island, Vermont, and the 

Commonwealth of Massachusetts have 

signed the Consent Decree as coplaintiffs, as have the following citizens 

groups: Citizens Action Coalition of 

Indiana, Clean Air Council, Hossier 

Environmental Council, Indiana 

Wildlife Federation, Izaak Walton 

League of America, League of Ohio 

Sportsmen, National Wildlife 

Federation, Natural Resources Defense 

Council, Inc., Ohio Citizen Action, Ohio 

Valley Environmental Coalition, Sierra 

Club, United States Public Interest 

Research Group, and West Virginia 

Environmental Council. 

The Department of Justice will receive 

for a period of thirty (30) days from the 

date of this publication comments 

relating to the Consent Decree. 

Comments should be addressed to the 

Assistant Attorney General, 

Environment and Natural Resources 

Division, and either emailed 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, et al, v. American Electric Power 

Service Corporation, et al., D.J. Ref. 90–

5–2–1–06893. 

The Consent Decree may be examined 

at the Office of the United States 

Attorney for the Southern District of 

Ohio, located at 303 Marconi Boulevard, 

Suite 200, Columbus, Ohio 43215; at 

U.S. EPA Region 3, 1650 Arch Street, 

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19103–

2029; at U.S. EPA Region 4, Sam Nunn 

Atlanta Federal Center, 61 Forsyth 

Street, SW., Atlanta, Georgia 30303–

8960; or at U.S. EPA Region 5, 77 W. 

Jackson Blvd., Chicago, Illinois 60604–

4590. During the public comment 

period, the Consent Decree may also be 

examined on the following Department 

of Justice Web site, http:// 

www.usdoj.gov/enrd/

Consent_Decrees.html. A copy of the 

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 no. (202) 514–0097, phone 

confirmation number (202) 514–1547. In 


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requesting a copy from the Consent 

Decree Library, please enclose a check 

in the amount of $30.25 (25 cents per 

page reproduction cost) payable to the 

U.S. Treasury. 

Bruce S. Gelber, 

Chief, Environmental Enforcement Section, 

Environment and Natural Resources Division. 

[FR Doc. 07–5126 Filed 10–16–07; 8:45 am] 

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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE 

Notice of Lodging of Consent Decree 

Under the Clean Water Act 

In accordance with Department of 

Justice policy, notice is hereby given 

that on October 10, 2007, a proposed 

consent decree (‘‘Consent Decree’’) in 

United States and the State of Illinois v. 

Board of Regents of the University of 

Illinois, et al., Civil Action No. 2:07–cv–

02188, was lodged with the United 

States District Court for the Central 

District of Illinois. 

The Consent Decree would resolve 

claims for natural resource damages 

under Section 311(f) of the Clean Water 

Act, 33 U.S.C. 1321(f), against the three 

defendants named in the complaint: the 

Board of Regents of the University of 

Illinois, the Urbana Champaign Sanitary 

District, and CEDA, Inc. (collectively the 

‘‘Defendants’’). The complaint alleges 

that the Defendants are liable for 

payment of natural resource damages for 

a fish kill incident that occurred in July 

2002, when the Defendants discharged 

ammonia-containing wastewater to the 

Saline Branch Drainage ditch above its 

confluence with the Salt Fork of the 

Vermillion River in Urbana, Illinois. 

The Consent Decree would require the 

Defendants to pay a total of $491,000 to 

resolve the natural resource damages 

claims asserted by the United States and 

the State of Illinois, including payment 

of: (i) $450,000 for natural resource 

restoration projects to be performed by 

the Federal and State natural resource 

trustees; (ii) $33,000 for reimbursement 

of natural resource damage assessment 

costs incurred by the Illinois 

Department of Natural Resources; and 

(iii) $8,000 for reimbursement of natural 

resource damage assessment costs 

incurred by the U.S. Department of the 

Interior. 

The Department of Justice will receive 

comments relating to the Consent 

Decree 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 

pubcomment-ees.enrd@usdoj.gov or 

mailed to P.O. Box No. 7611, 

Washington, DC 20044–7611, and 

should refer to United States and the 

State of Illinois v. Board of Regents of 

the University of Illinois, et al., Civil 

Action No. 2:07–cv–02188, D.J. 

Reference No. 90–11–3–08748. 

The Consent Decree may be examined 

at the Office of the United States 

Attorney for the Central District of 

Illinois, One Technology Plaza, 211 

Fulton Street, Suite 400, Peoria, Illinois 

61602. During the public comment 

period, the Consent Decree may also be 

examined on the following Department 

of Justice Web site: http:// 

www.usdoj.gov/enrd/

Consent_Decrees.html. A copy of the 

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 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 $8.50 (34 pages at 25 

cents per page reproduction cost) 

payable to the U.S. Treasury. 

Maureen M. Katz, 

Assistant Chief, Environmental Enforcement 

Section, Environment and Natural Resources 

Division. 

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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE 

Notice of Public Comment Period for 

Proposed Environmental Settlement 

Agreement 

Notice is hereby given that, for a 

period of 30 days, the United States will 

receive public comments on a proposed 

Settlement Agreement in In the Matter 

of Evans Industries, Inc. (‘‘Debtor’’)(Case 

No. 06–10370), which was lodged with 

the United States Bankruptcy Court for 

the Eastern District of Louisiana on 

September 28, 2007. 

This proposed Settlement Agreement 

resolves the Distribution Trustee’s 

objection to the United States Proof of 

Claim filed on behalf of the 

Environmental Protection Agency 

(‘‘EPA Claim’’) against the Debtor. The 

Proof of Claim asserts, inter alia, a 

claim, pursuant to the Comprehensive 

Environmental Response, Compensation 

and Liability Act (‘‘CERCLA’’), 42 U.S.C. 

9601 et seq., that the Debtor arranged for 

the treatment or disposal of hazardous 

substances that it owned for possessed 

at the Malone Service Company 

Superfund Site (‘‘Malone Site’’) located 

in Texas City, Galveston County, Texas, 

and that the Debtor is liable for 

unreimbursed environmental response 

costs incurred by the United States and 

for response costs incurred in the future 

by the United States at the Malone Site 

(‘‘EPA Claim’’). 

Under the Settlement Agreement, the 

EPA Claim shall be deemed allowed as 

a general unsecured claim of the kind 

specified in 11 U.S.C. 726(a)(2) in the 

amount of $1,238,763.80, and the EPA 

Claim shall be paid in the same manner 

and to the same extent as other general 

unsecured claims without 

discrimination, in accordance with the 

terms of the Debtor’s Plan of 

Reorganization. Class 16 of the Plan 

provides for the treatment of general 

unsecured claims in accordance with 

Article XI (Distribution Trust). 

Comments should be addressed to the 

Acting Assistant Attorney General, 

Environment and Natural Resources 

Division, and may be submitted to: P.O. 

Box 7611, U.S. Department of Justice, 

Washington, DC 20044–7611, or via email to pubcommentees.enrd@usdoj.gov, and should refer to 

In the Matter of Evans Industries, Inc., 

D.J. Ref. 90–11–3–08926. 

The Settlement Agreement may be 

examined at the Office of the United 

States Attorney, Eastern District of 

Louisiana, Hale Boggs Federal Building, 

500 Poydras St., Room B–210, New 

Orleans, Louisiana 70130. During the 

public comment period the Evans 

Settlement Agreement may also be 

examined on the following Department 

of Justice Web site, http:// 

www.usjoj.gov/enrd/

Consent_Decrees.html. A copy of the 

Evans Settlement 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 

(tonia.fleetwood@usdoj.gov), 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 

$1.75 (25 cents per page reproduction 

cost) payable to the U.S. Treasury. 

Thomas A. Mariani, Jr., 

Assistant Chief. 

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