[Federal Register Volume 61, Number 57 (Friday, March 22, 1996)]
[Notices]
[Pages 11866-11867]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 96-6933]
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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 C.F.R. Sec. 50.7, notice
is hereby given that a proposed Consent Decree in United States v. Lone
Star Industries, Inc., Civil Action No. 1:96CV33SNL, was lodged on
March 14, 1996, with the United States District Court for the Eastern
District of Missouri.
In its complaint, which was filed along with the Consent Decree,
the United States alleges that defendant Lone Star Industries Inc.
(``Lone Star'') failed to comply with Section 113(b) of the Clean Air
Act (``Act''), 42 U.S.C. Secs. 7413. In particular, the United States
contends that Lone Star violated the New Source Performance Standards
(``NSPS'') for Nonmetallic Mineral Processing Plants, 40 C.F.R. Part
60, Subpart 000, promulgated pursuant to Section 111 of the Act, 42
U.S.C. Sec. 7411, in that the defendant failed to comply with certain
reporting and testing requirements at its nonmetallic mineral
processing plant located in Cape Girardeau, Missouri.
Under the Consent Decree, Lone Star will pay a civil penalty in the
amount of $40,000 to the United States. In addition, Lone Star will
implement a Supplemental Environmental Project (``SEP'') at its Cape
Girardeau plant designed to control fugitive dust emissions by paving
certain roads within the plant at an estimated cost of $150,000 by no
later than December 31, 1996.
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,
Department of Justice, Washington, D.C. 20530, and should refer to
United States v. Lone Star Industries, Inc., DOJ Ref. No. 90-5-2-1-
1938.
The proposed Consent Decree may be examined at the office of the
United States Attorney, U.S. Courthouse, 1114 Market Street, St. Louis,
Missouri 63101-2075; the Region 7 Office of the Environmental
Protection Agency, 726 Minnesota, Kansas City, Kansas 66101; 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 Consent Decree may
be obtained in person or by mail from the Consent Decree Library, 1120
G Street, N.W., 4th Floor, Washington, D.C. 20005. In requesting a copy
please refer to the referenced case and enclose a check in the amount
of $4.50 (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. 96-6933 Filed 3-21-96; 8:45 am]
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