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FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA
PROCEDURES AND TO MODIFY THE MODIFIED FINAL JUDGMENT Plaintiff, United States of America, and defendant, Cemex, S.A.B. de C.V. ("Cemex"), jointly and concurrently move this Court under the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure 60(b)(5) and Section XI of the Modified Final Judgment ("MFJ") entered in this matter on November 28, 2007, to establish notice and comment procedures for the modification of the MFJ and to modify the MFJ to allow Cemex to reacquire Rinker Group Limited's ("Rinker") Kennedy Plant, located at 1406 Atlanta Avenue, Orlando, Florida 32806, which was divested to CRH plc ("CRH") pursuant to the MFJ. In support of this motion, the parties state as follows: 1. Cemex and CRH propose to exchange two ready mix concrete plants located in Orlando, Florida. The two plants Cemex's Division Avenue facility and CRH's Kennedy Plant are located near downtown Orlando and serve the same geographic area. Cemex currently leases the land used by its downtown Division Avenue facility under a lease that expires on April 30, 2009. As a result of an acquisition that occurred close in time to the entry of the MFJ, CRH now owns the land that Cemex leases, and it wants to displace Cemex and move its Kennedy Plant concrete operations to this site in order to take advantage of economies that can be realized by consolidating various aggregate and concrete operations there. The most efficient place for Cemex to relocate its operations in order to maintain its current ready mix concrete production capacity in downtown Orlando would be the Kennedy Plant site that Cemex previously divested to CRH, as CRH wishes to vacate and transfer its lease for the Kennedy Plant site to another party when it relocates to Division Avenue. However, Cemex is currently barred from reacquiring the Kennedy Plant site pursuant to Section XI of the MFJ. The proposed modification to Section XI of the MFJ will provide for Cemex's reacquisition of the Kennedy Plant to preserve Cemex's existing production capacity in downtown Orlando following CRH's move to Division Avenue. In the view of the United States the proposed modification is in the public interest. 2. The United States tentatively has agreed to modification of the MFJ, but as a matter of policy does not consent to the modification of judgments without public notice and an opportunity for public comment. A Proposed Order, attached hereto as Exhibit 1, may be entered by the Court forthwith, without further notice to any other party or any other proceedings in order to establish the following notice and comment procedures for the modification of the MFJ:
Dated: January 7, 2009
I, Frederick H. Parmenter, hereby certify that on January 7, 2009, I caused copies of the foregoing
Joint Motion to Establish Notice and Comment Procedures and to Modify the Modified Final
Judgment and the Proposed Second Modified Final Judgment to be served on defendant
CEMEX, S.A.B. de C.V. by mailing the documents electronically to the duly authorized legal
representative of the defendant.
Counsel for CEMEX, S.A.B. de C.V.: Clifford H. Aronson, Esquire |