[Federal Register Volume 75, Number 6 (Monday, January 11, 2010)]
[Notices]
[Pages 1413-1414]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2010-269]


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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE


Notice of Lodging of Consent Decrees Under The Comprehensive 
Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA)

    Notice is hereby given that on December 18, 2009, two proposed 
Consent Decrees in the case of U.S. v. Mascot Mines, Inc., et al., 
Civil Action No. 08-383-EJL, with Defendants Mascot Mines, Inc. and 
Nabob Silver-Lead Company and with Defendant United Resource Holdings 
Group, Inc., were lodged with the United States District Court for the 
District of Idaho.
    The United States filed a complaint in September 2008 alleging that 
the defendants are liable pursuant to Section 107(a) of CERCLA for 
response costs incurred and to be incurred by the United States in 
connection with Operable Unit Three of the Bunker Hill Mining and 
Metallurgical Complex Superfund Site in northern Idaho. The proposed 
Consent Decrees grant each settling defendant a covenant not to sue for 
response costs, as well as natural resource damages, in connection with 
the Site. The Coeur d'Alene Tribe is a co-trustee of injured natural 
resources at the Site and a party to the proposed Consent Decrees. The 
settlements are based on an analysis of each settling defendant's 
limited ability to pay and require payments totaling $90,000. The 
settlements also require assignment of interest in insurance policies 
to a trust, for the benefit of EPA and the natural resource trustees, 
and payment of two percent of net smelter returns generated from any 
future mining activities.
    For thirty (30) days after the date of this publication, the 
Department of

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Justice will receive comments relating to the Consent Decrees. Comments 
should be addressed to the Assistant Attorney General, Environment and 
Natural Resources Division, and either e-mailed to <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#85f5f0e7e6eae8e8e0ebf1a8e0e0f6abe0ebf7e1c5f0f6e1eaefabe2eaf3"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="ed9d988f8e828080888399c088889ec388839f89ad989e898287c38a829b">[email protected]</span></a> or mailed to P.O. Box 7611, U.S. Department of 
Justice, Washington, DC 20044-7611. In either case, the comments should 
refer to U.S. v. Mascot Mines, Inc., et al., D.J. Ref. No. 90-11-3-128/
7.
    During the comment period, the Consent Decrees may be examined on 
the following Department of Justice Web site: http://www.usdoj.gov/enrd/Consent_Decrees.html. A copy of the Consent Decrees 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 (<a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#c0b4afaea9a1eea6aca5a5b4b7afafa480b5b3a4afaaeea7afb6"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="baced5d4d3db94dcd6dfdfcecdd5d5defacfc9ded5d094ddd5cc">[email protected]</span></a>), 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 $32.25 (25 cents per page reproduction cost) 
payable to the United States Treasury or, if by e-mail or fax, forward 
a check in that amount to the Consent Decree Library at the stated 
address.

Maureen Katz,
Assistant Chief, Environmental Enforcement Section, Environment and 
Natural Resources Division.
[FR Doc. 2010-269 Filed 1-8-10; 8:45 am]
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