Notice of Availability; Addendum #2 to the Assessment Plan: Lower Fox River/Green Bay Natural Resource Damage Assessment

DEPARTENT OF THE INTERIOR

Fish and Wildlife Service

Notice of Availability; Addendum #2 to the Assessment Plan: Lower

Fox River/Green Bay Natural Resource Damage Assessment

AGENCY: Fish and Wildlife Service, Interior.

ACTION: Notice of 30-day comment period.

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SUMMARY: Notice is given that the document entitled: ``Lower Fox River/

Green Bay NRDA Initial Restoration and Compensation Determination

Plan'' will be available for public review and comment on the date of

publication in the Federal Register.

The assessment, including the activities addressed in this

addendum, will be conducted in accordance with the guidance of the

Natural Resource Damage Assessment Regulations found at 43 CFR Part 11,

to the extent applicable. The public review of the Addendum announced

by this Notice is provided for in 43 CFR 11.32(c).

Interested members of the public are invited to review and comment

on the Addendum. Copies of the Addendum, and the ``Assessment Plan:

Lower Fox River/Green Bay NRDA'' (``The Plan'') issued on August 23,

1996 (FR Doc. 96-21520), can be requested from the address listed

below. All written comments will be considered and included in the

Report of Assessment, at the conclusion of the assessment process.

DATES: Written comments on the Addendum must be submitted on or before

October 21, 1998.

ADDRESSES: Requests for copies of the Addendum and/or the Plan may be

made to: Frank Horvath, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Region 3 (ATTN:

ES/EC-NRDA), B.H.W. Federal Building, 1 Federal Drive, Ft. Snelling, MN

55111-4096.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The purpose of this natural resource damage

assessment is to confirm and quantify the suspected injuries to natural

resources in the Lower Fox River, Green Bay, and Lake Michigan

environment resulting from exposure to hazardous substances released by

area paper mills and other potential sources. It is suspected that this

exposure has caused injury and resultant damages to trustee resources.

The injury and resultant damages will be assessed under the

Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act,

as amended, and the Clean Water Act, as amended.

William F. Hartwig,

Regional Director, Region 3, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.

[FR Doc. 98-25144 Filed 9-18-98; 8:45 am]

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