[Federal Register Volume 59, Number 8 (Wednesday, January 12, 1994)]
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From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 94-798]
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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE
Lodging of Consent Decree Pursuant to Clean Air Act
In accordance with Department policy, 28 CFR 50.7, notice is hereby
given that on December 28, 1993, a proposed Consent Decree in United
States v. Superior Contract Maintenance, Inc., Civil Action No.
1:93CV2754, was lodged in the United States District Court for the
Northern District of Ohio. The Complaint filed by the United States
alleged violations of the Clean Air Act, the National Emission
Standards for Hazardous Air Pollutants (NESHAP) for Asbestos, 40 CFR
part 61, subpart M, by Superior Contract Maintenance, Inc. (SCM),
Superior Demolition and Excavating, Inc. (SDE), and Market Plaza
Properties Limited Partnership. The Consent Decree requires the
defendants to pay a total civil penalty of $27,500 in full settlement
of the claims set forth in the Complaint filed by the United States.
The Consent Decree also requires the defendants to ensure that their
employees have the required inspector and asbestos abatement worker
training before those employees can inspect or work in facilities where
asbestos containing material (ACM) or suspect ACM would be removed.
Additionally, the compliance section requires SCM, SDE, and Market
Plaza to provide written instructions to their employees not to handle,
move, or otherwise disturb ACM or suspect ACM unless specially trained,
licensed or authorized to do so, to comply with the asbestos NESHAP,
and to provide EPA with notice before removing any asbestos in the
future.
The Department of Justice will receive for a period of thirty (30)
days from the date of this publication comments concerning the proposed
Consent Decree. Comments should be addressed to the Assistant Attorney
General, Environment and Natural Resources Division, U.S. Department of
Justice, P.O. Box 7611, Ben Franklin Station, Washington, DC 20044, and
should refer to United States v. Superior Contract Maintenance, Inc.,
D.J. Ref. No. 90-5-2-1-1739.
The proposed Consent Decree may be examined at any of the following
offices: (1) The United States Attorney for the Northern District of
Ohio, United States Courthouse, Room 208, 2 South Main Street, Akron,
Ohio 44308 (contact Assistant United States Attorney James L. Bickett);
(2) the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Region 5, 77 West Jackson
Boulevard, Chicago, Illinois 60604-3590 (contact Assistant Regional
Counsel Padmavati G. Klejwa); and (3) the Environmental Enforcement
Section, Environment and Natural Resources Division, U.S. Department of
Justice, Consent Decree Library, 1120 G Street, NW., 4th Floor,
Washington, DC 20005 (202-624-0892). A copy of the proposed consent
decree may be obtained in person or by mail from the Consent Decree
Library, 1120 G Street, NW., 4th Floor, Washington, DC 20005. For a
copy of the Consent Decree please enclose a check in the amount of
$5.50 (25 cents per page for reproduction costs, exclusive of the costs
of the appendices), payable to the Consent Decree Library.
John C. Cruden,
Chief, Environmental Enforcement Section, Environment and Natural
Resources Division.
[FR Doc. 94-798 Filed 1-11-94; 8:45 am]
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