[Federal Register Volume 61, Number 148 (Wednesday, July 31, 1996)]
[Notices]
[Page 39985]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 96-19395]
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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE
Notice of Lodging of Consent Decree Pursuant to the Oil Pollution
Act
Notice is hereby given that a proposed consent decree in United
States, et al., v. ARCO Pipe Line Co., et al., Civil Action No. 1:96 CV
0280, was lodged on July 18, 1996, with the United States District
Court for the Northern District of Indiana. The consent decree settles
an action brought under Section 1006 of the Oil Pollution Act, 33
U.S.C. Sec. 2706, for natural resource damages resulting from an oil
spill in which a pipeline ruptured and discharged approximately 30,000
gallons of diesel fuel that flowed into Fish Creek, DeKalb County,
Indiana, and spread downstream into Williams County, Ohio. The consent
decree requires ARCO Pipe Line Co. and NORCO Pipeline, Inc., to pay the
past assessment costs of the natural resource trustees and to pay
$2,507,500 for restoring, rehabilitating, replacing, or acquiring the
equivalent of the damaged natural resources.
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, et al., v. ARCO Pipe Line Co., et al., DOJ Ref. #90-5-1-
1-4146.
The proposed consent decree may be examined at the office of the
United States Attorney, Fort Wayne Division, 1300 South Harrison
Street, Room 3128, Fort Wayne, Indiana, 46802; the Bloomington Field
Office of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, 620 South Walker Street,
Bloomington, Indiana, 47403; 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 $9.50 (25 cents
per page reproduction costs), payable to the Consent Decree Library.
Bruce S. Gelber,
Deputy Section Chief, Environmental Enforcement Section, Environment
and Natural Resources Division.
[FR Doc. 96-19395 Filed 7-30-96; 8:45 am]
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