[Federal Register Volume 62, Number 47 (Tuesday, March 11, 1997)]
[Notices]
[Pages 11223-11224]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 97-5923]
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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE
Notice of Lodging of Consent Decree Pursuant to the Clean Water
Act
In accordance with Departmental policy, 28 CFR Sec. 50.7, notice is
hereby given that a proposed consent decree in United States v. Eureka
Pipe Line Company, et al., Civil Action No. 6:96-0282, was lodged on
February 26, 1997 with the United States District court for the
Southern District of West Virginia.
The action sought civil penalties and injunctive relief against
Eureka Pipe Line Company and Pennzoil Products Company under the Clean
Water Act (``CWA''), 33 U.S.C. 1251 et seq., as amended by the Oil
Pollution Act of 1990 (``OPA''). The United States alleged that the
Defendants have violated the Clean Water Act, 33 U.S.C. Sec. 1251 et
seq., as amended by OPA, by discharging oil in harmful quantities into
navigable waters of the United States and adjoining shorelines.
Under the proposed consent decree, the Defendants will pay $867,000
in civil penalties (Eureka: $440,000; Pennzoil: $427,000), and Pennzoil
has agreed to perform a set of injunctive relief measures, including,
the removal of 19-miles of pipelines from active service, the pressure
testing of all of its active pipelines for detection of corrosion-
related problems, the performance of a comprehensive and continual
visual inspection program of its active oil production operations, and
the formation of a review committee to study and redress its pipeline
corrosion problems, with respect to its West Virginia operations.
The Department of Justice will receive, for a period of thirty (30)
days from the date of this publication, comments relating to the
proposed consent decree. Comments should be addressed to the Assistant
Attorney General for the Environment and Natural Resources Division,
U.S. Department of Justice, 950 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W., Washington,
D.C. 20530-0001 and should refer to United States
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v. Eureka Pipe Line Company, et al. Corp., DOJ Ref. Nos. 90-5-1-1-4206
and 90-5-1-1-4270.
The proposed consent decrees may be examined at the United States
Attorney's Office, Southern District of West Virginia, 500 Quarrier
Street, Suite 3201, Charleston, West Virginia 25301; Region III Office
of the Environmental Protection Agency, 841 Chestnut Street,
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19107-4431; and at the Consent Decree
Library, 1120 ``G'' Street, N.W., 4th Floor, Washington, D.C. 20005,
(202) 624-0892. A copy of the proposed decrees may be obtained in
person or by mail from the Consent Decree Library at the address listed
above. In requesting a copy, please refer to the referenced case and
numbers, and enclose a check in the amount of $31.25 (25 cents per page
reproduction costs), payable to the Consent Decree Library.
Joel M. Gross,
Chief, Environmental Enforcement Section, Environment and Natural
Resources Division.
[FR Doc. 97-5923 Filed 3-10-97; 8:45 am]
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