[Federal Register Volume 74, Number 6 (Friday, January 9, 2009)]
[Notices]
[Page 922]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E9-154]


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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE


Notice of Proposed Notice of Withdrawal of Protective Claim and 
Settlement Agreement Under the Comprehensive Environmental Response, 
Compensation and Liability Act (CERCLA)

    Notice is hereby given that the United States proposes to enter 
into a Notice of Withdrawal of Protective Claim and Settlement 
Agreement with Delta Air Lines, Inc. (``Delta''), pursuant to CERCLA 
and in accordance with Delta's Plan of Reorganization entered by the 
United States Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York 
under chapter 11 of title 11 of the United States Code, Case No. 05-
17923.
    The proposed agreement provides the United States Environmental 
Protection Agency (``EPA'') with an allowed general unsecured claim of 
$31,063 in the Delta Bankruptcy action for Delta's share of EPA's 
response costs at the Hows Corner Superfund Site in Plymouth, Maine. 
The agreement further provides for the withdrawal of the United States 
protective claim for environmental cleanup at the Operating Industries, 
Inc. Superfund Site (``OII Site'') in Monterey Park, California, upon 
the effectiveness of an agreement between Delta and the Steering 
Committee of potentially responsible parties at the OII Site with 
respect to the Steering Committee's claim in the Bankruptcy action 
relating to Delta's share of certain clean-up obligations at the OII 
Site.
    The Department of Justice will receive comments relating to the 
proposed agreement 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 <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#6616130405090b0b0308124b030315480308140226131502090c48010910"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="01717463626e6c6c646f752c6464722f646f7365417472656e6b2f666e77">[email protected]</span></a> or mailed to P.O. Box 
7611, U.S. Department of Justice, Washington, DC 20044-7611, and should 
refer to In re Delta Air Lines, Inc., DOJ Ref. No. 90-11-2-156/16.
    The proposed Agreement may be examined at the Region 1 Office of 
the United States Environmental Protection Agency, 1 Congress Street, 
Suite 1100, Boston, MA 02114-2023 and the Region 9 Office of the United 
States Environmental Protection Agency, 75 Hawthorne Street, San 
Francisco, California 94105. During the public comment period, the 
proposed agreement may also be examined on the following Department of 
Justice Web site: http://www.usdoj.gov/enrd/Consent_Decrees.html. A 
copy of the proposed agreement may also be obtained by mail from the 
Consent Decree Library, P.O. Box 7611, U.S. Department of Justice, 
Washington, D.C. 20044-7611 or by faxing or e-mailing a request to 
Tonia Fleetwood (<a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#2e5a4140474f0048424b4b5a5941414a6e5b5d4a414400494158"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="770318191e1659111b1212030018181337020413181d59101801">[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 $1.00 
(25 cents per page reproduction cost) payable to the U.S. Treasury.

Henry Friedman,
Assistant Chief, Environmental Enforcement Section, Environment and 
Natural Resources Division.
[FR Doc. E9-154 Filed 1-8-09; 8:45 am]
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