[Federal Register Volume 64, Number 154 (Wednesday, August 11, 1999)]
[Notices]
[Pages 43719-43720]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 99-20746]
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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE
Notice of Lodging of Consent Decree Pursuant to the Clean Water
Act
In accordance with Department policy, 28 U.S.C. 50.7, notice is
hereby given that a proposed Consent Decree in United States v. Texmark
Chemicals, Inc., Civil Action No. H-99-2437, was lodged on July 29,
1999, with the United
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States District Court for the Southern District of Texas.
The Consent Decree settles an action brought under Sections 309(b)
and (d) of the Clean Water Act (``the Act''), 33 U.S.C. 1319(b) and
(d). The consent Decree provides for Texmark's payment of a civil
penalty to the United States in the amount of $129,816, requires
injunctive relief to bring Texmark into compliance with the Clean Water
Act, and requires Texmark to implement and complete two Supplemental
Environmental Projects (``SEPs'') costing in the aggregate $95,790 at
its Galena Park, Harris County, Texas facility.
The Vacuum Pumps SEP involves the replacement of its two steam jets
in the DCPD Distillation Process with two vacuum pumps thereby
eliminating process wastewater in its process system. Because process
wastewater will no longer be generated in the production of DCPD, the
proposed SEP will reduce the average flow through outfall 001 by
between 50% and 78%; process wastewater flow would concurrently be
reduced by between 55% and 87%.
The Rail Car Overfill Prevention SEP will augment Texmark's
existing rail car loading process to prevent the inadvertent
overfilling of rail cars at the facility. The SEP will employ a micro-
motion meter system which consists of a senor, transmitter, totalizer
and probe. The sensor will measure mass, volume, density and
temperature. The SEP will prevent spills occurring as the result of
rail car filling thus benefitting the environment.
The Department of Justice will receive, for a period of thirty (30)
days from the ate 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. Texmark Chemicals, Inc., DOJ Ref. #90-5-1-1-4527.
The proposed Consent Decree may be examined at the office of the
United States Attorney, Southern District of Texas, 910 Travis Suite
1500, Houston, Texas 77208; the Region VI Office of the Environmental
Protection Agency, 1445 Ross Avenue, Dallas, Texas, and at the Consent
Decree Library, 1120 G Street, N.W., 3rd 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., 3rd Floor, Washington, D.C. 20005. In requesting a copy please
refer to the referenced case and enclose a check in the amount of $6.75
(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. 99-20746 Filed 8-10-99; 8:45 am]
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