[Federal Register Volume 64, Number 228 (Monday, November 29, 1999)]
[Notices]
[Page 66646]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 99-30829]
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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE
Notice of Lodging of Proposed Modification to Consent Decree
Under the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and
Liability Act
Notice is hereby given that, on November 3, 1999, a modification to
the July 14, 1998 Consent Decree in United States v. Block Island Power
Company, Inc., Civil Action No. 98-045 ML, was lodged in the United
States District Court for the District of Rhode Island.
The proposed modification to the Consent Decree extends, by six
months, the date by which Block Island Power Company, Inc. (``BIPCO'')
must achieve final compliance with the Clean Air Act, 42 U.S.C. 7401 et
seq. Under paragraph 22 of the July 14, 1998 Consent Decree, BIPCO
agreed to install and operate lowest achievable emission rate
(``LAER'') pollution controls on its generators by eighteen months from
the date that it abandoned the underwater cable project. BIPCO
abandoned the cable project on March 1, 1999 and therefore under the
July 14, 1998 Consent Decree, BIPCO needed to install and operate LAER
by September 1, 2000. The proposed modification to the Consent Decree
would extend this September 1, 2000 date by six months, until March 1,
2001. The proposed modification does not affect any other provisions of
the July 14, 1998 Consent Decree.
The Department of Justice will accept written comments solely
relating to the proposed modification to the July 14, 1998 Consent
Decree for thirty (30) days from the date of publication of this
notice. Please address comments to the Assistant Attorney General,
Environment and Natural Resources Division, Department of Justice, P.O.
Box 7611, Ben Franklin Station, Washington, DC 20044 and refer to Block
Island Power Company, Inc., Civil Action No. 98-045 ML (D.R.I.), DJ #
90-5-2-1-2021.
Copies of the proposed modification to the Consent Decree may be
examined at the Office of the United States Attorney for the District
of Rhode Island, Assistant United States Attorney, Fleet Center, 8th
floor, 50 Kennedy Plaza, Providence, Rhode Island 02903; at the U.S.
Environmental Protection Agency, Region I, 1 Congress Street, Suite
1100, Boston, Massachusetts 02114. A copy of the proposed modification
to the Consent Decree may also be obtained in person or by mail at the
Department of Justice Consent Decree Library, P.O. Box 7611,
Washington, DC 20044. When requesting a copy of the proposed
modification to the Consent Decree by mail, please enclose a check in
the amount of $.75 (twenty-five cents per page reproduction costs)
payable to the ``Consent Decree Library.''
Joel M. Gross,
Chief, Environmental Enforcement Section, Environment and Natural
Resources Division, Department of Justice.
[FR Doc. 99-30829 Filed 11-26-99; 8:45 am]
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