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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. 

[FR Doc. 07–5124 Filed 10–16–07; 8:45 am] 

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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. 

[FR Doc. 07–5130 Filed 10–16–07; 8:45 am] 

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