diff --git a/playground/java/src/org/broadinstitute/sting/utils/CountedObjectComparatorAdapter.java b/playground/java/src/org/broadinstitute/sting/utils/CountedObjectComparatorAdapter.java
index 28798d8ac..affc8fd1a 100755
--- a/playground/java/src/org/broadinstitute/sting/utils/CountedObjectComparatorAdapter.java
+++ b/playground/java/src/org/broadinstitute/sting/utils/CountedObjectComparatorAdapter.java
@@ -1,6 +1,5 @@
 package org.broadinstitute.sting.utils;
 
-import org.broadinstitute.sting.utils.CountedObject;
 
 /** Support class for counted objects. This comparator is an adapter: it is initialized with an arbitrary
  * comparator for objects of type T and can be used to directly compare counted objects of type CountedObject<T>