[Federal Register Volume 64, Number 194 (Thursday, October 7, 1999)]
[Notices]
[Page 54643]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 99-26108]
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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE
Notice of Lodging of the Consent Decree Under the Clean Water Act
as Amended by the Oil Pollution Act
Under 28 CFR 50.7 notice is hereby given that on September 28,
1999, a proposed Consent Decree in United States and State of Louisiana
v. Equilon Pipeline Company LLC, Civil Action No. 99-2961, was lodged
with the United States District Court for the Eastern District of
Louisiana.
In this action the United States on behalf of the National Oceanic
Atmospheric Administration, the Department of Interior's Fish and
Wildlife Service, and the Coast Guard; and the State of Louisiana on
behalf of the Louisiana Oil Spill Coordinator, Department of
Environmental Quality, Department of Wildlife and Fisheries, and
Department of Natural Resources, sought recovery of natural resource
damages, removal costs, and other expenses arising out of the May 16,
1997, discharge of oil from a pipeline located in Lake Barre,
Terrebonne Parish, Louisiana. The proposed Consent Decree provides that
Equilon Pipeline Company LLC, successor corporation to Texaco Pipeline
Inc. by way of merger, will perform a restoration project consisting of
planting marsh grasses on East Timbalier Island and will pay state
response costs and past state and federal assessment costs amounting to
approximately $480,000. Equilon also will pay future assessment and
restoration costs to the state and federal agencies.
The Department of Justice will receive for a period of thirty (30)
days from the date of this publication comments relating to the Consent
Decree. Comments should be addressed to the Assistant Attorney General
of the Environment and Natural Resources Division, Department of
Justice, Washington, DC 20530, and should refer to United States and
the State of Louisiana v. Equilon Pipeline Company LLC, D.J. Ref. 90-5-
1-1-06628.
The Consent Decree may be examined at the Office of the United
States Attorney, 501 Magazine Street, Suite 210, New Orleans, Louisiana
and at the Louisiana Oil Spill Coordinator's Office, 625 North 4th
Street, Suite 800, Baton Rouge, Louisiana. A copy of the Consent Decree
may also be obtained by mail from the Department of Justice Consent
Decree Library, P.O. Box 7611, Washington, DC 20044-7611. In requesting
a copy, please enclose a check in the amount of $42.50 (25 cents per
page reproduction cost) payable to the Consent Decree Library. In
requesting a copy exclusive of exhibits, i.e., without the: (1) Final
Damage Assessment and Restoration Plan, (2) Grant of Particular Use for
Construction, and (3) Monitoring Plan, please enclose check in the
amount of $17.75 (25 cents per page reproduction cost) payable to the
Consent Decree Library.
Joel M. Gross,
Chief, Environmental Enforcement Section, Environment and Natural
Resources Division.
[FR Doc. 99-26108 Filed 10-6-99; 8:45 am]
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